RichDoyle
Well-known member
I thought it'd be a good idea to have a spare main fuse around for my '13. Checked around local shops. Seems nobody stocks these (or they don't stock enough), and they list for like 10 bucks. I happened to be a NAPA store looking for a fuse for a different matter and there sat a 50 Amp fuse that looked just right: $3.92. It's even red.
So I picked it up and checked it out. It turns out the outside dimensions are a fraction of a mm too large to fit into the FJR's socket. One can see (barely) the difference in dimension by examining the OEM against this one. A wee bit of dremel touch up and it'll go in and work just fine.
So if you be on the road, far from a Yamaha dealer who has one and this fuse blows, find ye a NAPA store, pick up yon fuse, rub it on the curb a bit and it'll fit right in there. Of course, if this one blows you've got a bigger problem. But at least once that's resolved you'll have this alternative.
Now it's possible that this NAPA fuse has a greater clearing time (takes longer to blow at a given overload) than the OEM fuse, and therefore might not give the same circuit protection, so you may want to replace it with the OEM when you get the chance.
So I picked it up and checked it out. It turns out the outside dimensions are a fraction of a mm too large to fit into the FJR's socket. One can see (barely) the difference in dimension by examining the OEM against this one. A wee bit of dremel touch up and it'll go in and work just fine.
So if you be on the road, far from a Yamaha dealer who has one and this fuse blows, find ye a NAPA store, pick up yon fuse, rub it on the curb a bit and it'll fit right in there. Of course, if this one blows you've got a bigger problem. But at least once that's resolved you'll have this alternative.
Now it's possible that this NAPA fuse has a greater clearing time (takes longer to blow at a given overload) than the OEM fuse, and therefore might not give the same circuit protection, so you may want to replace it with the OEM when you get the chance.
