man@venture
New Member
Hello all.
I know this topic has been covered many times, however if there are still people buying fz6's out there like me then this might come in handy. I wanted to start a thread with solutions for the rock/fan problem that seems to burden this bike. I know a few members have shared their mods, however pictures are hard to find and I figure we can get all the ideas in one place for anyone with this problem.
Background: I bought a new to me 2007 fz6 late 2015 for the 2016 season. A couple of hours away form the seller I got an email to the effect of "oh i forgot to tell you last time I was on the bike it was over heating". After some probing questions on my side I found out the guy was out riding and got stuck in traffic, when he noticed the temp on his bike going up to 200F
he freaked out, got out of traffic and got some air moving to cool the bike which worked. Thanks. He did offer some money back if I found the problem to be significant.
Thats when I found this website and all the amazing advice. Thank you all that have and are posting here. I started reading, learning, troubleshooting.
Thanks to all the info here I started the fixin...
First off WTF were the engineers thinking when they ran the wire from the fan, let alone the poor fan design. I finally got the wire out (and the air box and the battery) duh.. and got the rad and fan off the bike. Damn if i have to do this more than once.
Anyway I found the problem just as described here. Yes a rock F@D me. Pics to follow.
So got a new fan, but i did not want to just put it back on and hope for the best. Out came the drawing board sorta. After hours of staring and measuring and browsing this forum and more staring at the fan and rad and both(assembled) I came up with the following idea. I waned to share this with everyone in hopes to give back to this wonderful side that has helped me so much over the last few months.
I would like to encourage everyone else that has come up with a mod to post some pictures here, hopefully we can all learn from each other and give anyone else thats buying this amazing machine we call the fz6 options for this annoying and potentially expensive problem. Fan was 245$CDN from Yamaha
To explain my design, I believe the rocks are actually bouncing straight into the fan blades and not so much in-between the fan and rad from the bottom. At least that is what I assessed from the damage to the rad fins. This lead me to believe that the deflector some people have made are good, but not 100% bulletproof. So I came up with this. If you guys see any problems, flaws, or anything else please let me know. Also if you have any questions I will do my best to answer. :thumbup:
Honestly if this post helps at least one person I will be happy. Also please post pictures of your design if you have one, like I said pics are hard to find as all post on this topic are fairly old and missing attachments.
Thank you all.
John
I know this topic has been covered many times, however if there are still people buying fz6's out there like me then this might come in handy. I wanted to start a thread with solutions for the rock/fan problem that seems to burden this bike. I know a few members have shared their mods, however pictures are hard to find and I figure we can get all the ideas in one place for anyone with this problem.
Background: I bought a new to me 2007 fz6 late 2015 for the 2016 season. A couple of hours away form the seller I got an email to the effect of "oh i forgot to tell you last time I was on the bike it was over heating". After some probing questions on my side I found out the guy was out riding and got stuck in traffic, when he noticed the temp on his bike going up to 200F
he freaked out, got out of traffic and got some air moving to cool the bike which worked. Thanks. He did offer some money back if I found the problem to be significant.
Thats when I found this website and all the amazing advice. Thank you all that have and are posting here. I started reading, learning, troubleshooting.
Thanks to all the info here I started the fixin...
First off WTF were the engineers thinking when they ran the wire from the fan, let alone the poor fan design. I finally got the wire out (and the air box and the battery) duh.. and got the rad and fan off the bike. Damn if i have to do this more than once.
Anyway I found the problem just as described here. Yes a rock F@D me. Pics to follow.
So got a new fan, but i did not want to just put it back on and hope for the best. Out came the drawing board sorta. After hours of staring and measuring and browsing this forum and more staring at the fan and rad and both(assembled) I came up with the following idea. I waned to share this with everyone in hopes to give back to this wonderful side that has helped me so much over the last few months.
I would like to encourage everyone else that has come up with a mod to post some pictures here, hopefully we can all learn from each other and give anyone else thats buying this amazing machine we call the fz6 options for this annoying and potentially expensive problem. Fan was 245$CDN from Yamaha
To explain my design, I believe the rocks are actually bouncing straight into the fan blades and not so much in-between the fan and rad from the bottom. At least that is what I assessed from the damage to the rad fins. This lead me to believe that the deflector some people have made are good, but not 100% bulletproof. So I came up with this. If you guys see any problems, flaws, or anything else please let me know. Also if you have any questions I will do my best to answer. :thumbup:
Honestly if this post helps at least one person I will be happy. Also please post pictures of your design if you have one, like I said pics are hard to find as all post on this topic are fairly old and missing attachments.
Thank you all.
John