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Ground Spiders & Gen II Reliability - Bullet Proof ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Harald" data-source="post: 1408075" data-attributes="member: 8054"><p>Your 2010 should have the spider problem "fixed" by Yamaha from the factory. Although there have still been 2010 and later FJR's affected by spider bites, the numbers have been very small compared to us 06 to 09 owners. There's a couple pinned threads at the top of this forum section that talk about spiders in great detail and I've tried to track the number of reported failures.</p><p></p><p>As far as spider maintenance, I highly recommend inspecting, cleaning and applying dielectric grease to all spiders on the bike along with other non sealed connectors. After my S7 spider failure on my 2007 FJR almost 10 years ago, I cut S7 off and soldered all the wires together. All remaining spiders and other connections were cleaned and dielectric grease applied. I've had no other issues since then despite racking up 136,000 miles now and a lot of it was riding in rain (I ride all year in Seattle). No connector has been greased again unless I had it apart and felt generous with my grease supply.</p><p></p><p>While helping someone grease their spiders recently, I realized that perhaps not everyone is greasing their spiders correctly. With the cap off, they globbed a dab of grease ontop of the spider and reinstalled the cap. This would be almost useless in protecting the connection. What you must do is similar to packing a wheel bearing. With clean contacts, repeatedly force grease down into the sockets so that the connector is packed full of grease. Then reinsert the spider, smear some more grease on top and then clip the cap back on. You now have the contact surfaces protected from the intrusion of water/dirt/etc that will cause corrosion, higher resistance, heating and consequently even higher resistance until failure occurs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harald, post: 1408075, member: 8054"] Your 2010 should have the spider problem "fixed" by Yamaha from the factory. Although there have still been 2010 and later FJR's affected by spider bites, the numbers have been very small compared to us 06 to 09 owners. There's a couple pinned threads at the top of this forum section that talk about spiders in great detail and I've tried to track the number of reported failures. As far as spider maintenance, I highly recommend inspecting, cleaning and applying dielectric grease to all spiders on the bike along with other non sealed connectors. After my S7 spider failure on my 2007 FJR almost 10 years ago, I cut S7 off and soldered all the wires together. All remaining spiders and other connections were cleaned and dielectric grease applied. I've had no other issues since then despite racking up 136,000 miles now and a lot of it was riding in rain (I ride all year in Seattle). No connector has been greased again unless I had it apart and felt generous with my grease supply. While helping someone grease their spiders recently, I realized that perhaps not everyone is greasing their spiders correctly. With the cap off, they globbed a dab of grease ontop of the spider and reinstalled the cap. This would be almost useless in protecting the connection. What you must do is similar to packing a wheel bearing. With clean contacts, repeatedly force grease down into the sockets so that the connector is packed full of grease. Then reinsert the spider, smear some more grease on top and then clip the cap back on. You now have the contact surfaces protected from the intrusion of water/dirt/etc that will cause corrosion, higher resistance, heating and consequently even higher resistance until failure occurs. [/QUOTE]
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