Binned it

[Cuban]

Binned my lovely old, never binned before FZR today. Gutted, im ok bar a few scratches and the bike is suprisingly good...but pretty cut about it. Anyway, anyone know:
A) what this part is?
and
B) How much?

Its the only bit really that is hurt, doubt its worth bothering with insurance (just looked prop at policy and i have a $1000 excess, thats crazy!)

Anyway
Cheers for any help

[Warr]

Goto suck eh.
What are your sculpturing skills like ?
Buy a stick of that plastic metal and get creative :)

[Cruisin' Craig]

I used the plastic metal when I did that to my old FZR back in the day. Mind you, yours is a bit more chewed up than mine was.
Then again, this site here suggests that a new cover is only about $35 US. Sounds like you might be ably to just get a totally new cover pretty cheap to me. http://www.gdlcycles.com/asp1/findmemodelpages.asp?qsmake=FZR%20600&qspart=Clutch%20Cover

PS: Nice bike by the way. Gotta love the old Yamahas.

[Cuban]

Cheers, yeah she was in mint condition until yesterday too.
i think the link shows the bit on the bike on the other side!
Excuse my ignorance, but for parts purposes, could anyone let me know exactly what i have destroyed?

Cheers

[xwhatsit]

I'd call that a clutch cover.

[barty5]

I'd call that a clutch cover.

id second that

[Warr]

I'd be taking a closer looksee.
Clutch cover doesnt usually protrude and it clutch on the left ??
Dont own one so dont know....

[blacksheep]

thats bad luck mate,at least your ok,get it fixed and buy some crash bungs!

[Dargor]

I vote crankcase cover, becouse Of this great site. (http://216.37.204.203/Yamaha_OEM/YamahaMC.asp?Type=13&A=77&B=17)

[Katman]

Left hand crankcase cover, alternator cover, stator cover or flywheel cover. Take your pick - they're all different names for the same part.

[xwhatsit]

I'd be taking a closer looksee.
Clutch cover doesnt usually protrude and it clutch on the left ??
Dont own one so dont know....
Dunno, on my bike (and other bikes that I can recall) the clutch is on the right.

I vote crankcase cover, becouse Of this great site. (http://216.37.204.203/Yamaha_OEM/YamahaMC.asp?Type=13&A=77&B=17)
That is probably the proper term, that's what I call my covers, but on sportsbikes the clutch-side cover is round and looks like a clutch is underneath (unlike my bike and other older ones where it looks vaguely like a primary chain case), so they have got their own terminology.

[barty5]

i stand corrected yamaha call it part no:27 3HE-15415-01-00 COVER, GENERATOR

yamaha.com part cataloge most US bikes/ atvs / cart motors and scooter diagrams listed with part numbers very helpfull site.

[Cuban]

Legend,
Crankcase cover it is. Thanks guys. Off to the local store to see what itll cost me (and some crash bungs)

[gijoe1313]

That'll buff out ... :whistle: :innocent:

[The Pastor]

i'd go for a weld to fix that, dont trust the metal in a tube kinda stuff.

it'll be a bitch to weld with all the oil thats soaked into the metal.

[Cruisin' Craig]

i'd go for a weld to fix that, dont trust the metal in a tube kinda stuff.



I would think that if it's just cosmetic damage we're fixing then as far as strength is concerned there's nothing wrong with using tube stuff. I'd agree on welding if it was something structural though for sure.

[Grub]

I don't get it.

Why aren't manufactureres making those covers (both sides) of hi-tech PTFE or similar teflon-based plastics ... and nice and thick. Even a minor drop is going to do that sort of thing. It's so obvious I don't understand why it hasn't happened.

There's some brilliant after-market ones but they're not cheap. Some name with "wood" in it? Not only are they milled from thick alluminium but they have replacement teflon inserts in them ... so why not have them as OEM?

[MaxB]

A while back I punched a crack in the crankcase cover on my Yammy. It was big enough to let oil through. I used an industrial degreasing machine to get the oil out of the casting. The cover was such a poor alloy that it wouldn't take a weld. Then I tried JB weld and it did the job for a while but it wouldn't penetrate into the hairline cracks at either end.

So I ended up paying for a new one - $205 all up through a dealer, airfreighted from Japan in 3 days.

[xwhatsit]

I don't get it.

Why aren't manufactureres making those covers (both sides) of hi-tech PTFE or similar teflon-based plastics ... and nice and thick. Even a minor drop is going to do that sort of thing. It's so obvious I don't understand why it hasn't happened.

There's some brilliant after-market ones but they're not cheap. Some name with "wood" in it? Not only are they milled from thick alluminium but they have replacement teflon inserts in them ... so why not have them as OEM?
That'd be Woodcraft. Not cheap though. They make lovely clip-ons too.

It's the curse of a multi, I suppose -- big, wide engine. Not only makes it handle like poo and bulky ergonomics, but if you drop it it'll cause big trouble.

I liked Honda's solution with the CBX1000 -- build a jackshaft, then put the flywheel, alternator (clutch too?) behind the cylinders instead of on the end of the crank. Made for a 6-cylinder engine about the same width as the CB750 4-cylinder.

[Cuban]

yeah, there is a hole right throught the cover unfortunately, so repair or replace is the go. Hopefully someone will wreck one on TMe soon (yeah right!)
getting ahold of the dealer tomo to suss a replacement

[The Pastor]

I would think that if it's just cosmetic damage we're fixing then as far as strength is concerned there's nothing wrong with using tube stuff. I'd agree on welding if it was something structural though for sure.
is there no hole in it?

[Cuban]

hole in it, down the bottom of the road rash

[MaxB]

I don't get it.

Why aren't manufactureres making those covers (both sides) of hi-tech PTFE or similar teflon-based plastics ... and nice and thick. Even a minor drop is going to do that sort of thing. It's so obvious I don't understand why it hasn't happened.

There's some brilliant after-market ones but they're not cheap. Some name with "wood" in it? Not only are they milled from thick alluminium but they have replacement teflon inserts in them ... so why not have them as OEM?

I think it is to do with cost. A lot of automotive covers and such are made by pressure die casting mass production methods using one hit alloys. A bit of basic machining and tidying up later and bingo you have a part. They produce a lot of product for the outlay.

Forged or machined from solid using hi spec alloy would be better but I suspect they would be too expensive.

Engine bars go a long way to reducing the damage anyway.