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**devils_friend** · 12-23-2016, 10:16 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Posting here after a long gap.

The rear makes squeak noise when i push it down while seating on it or with hands. I presume the noise is from monoshock. Can the noise be coming from anywhere else?

**Kartik Shetty** · 12-23-2016, 10:43 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by devils_friend View Post

Posting here after a long gap.

The rear makes squeak noise when i push it down while seating on it or with hands. I presume the noise is from monoshock. Can the noise be coming from anywhere else?

In my motorcycle, spraying some wd40 at the upper joint of the shock used to eliminate the noise..

**nadz11.ns** · 12-23-2016, 11:04 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by devils_friend View Post

Posting here after a long gap.

The rear makes squeak noise when i push it down while seating on it or with hands. I presume the noise is from monoshock. Can the noise be coming from anywhere else?

I had rotated the shock thread to make it sloghtly longer when I got this squeaky noise (but only in bumpy roads).
Other reason could be swing arm bearing.

**Aakash Singh** · 12-24-2016, 06:38 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by devils_friend View Post

Posting here after a long gap.

The rear makes squeak noise when i push it down while seating on it or with hands. I presume the noise is from monoshock. Can the noise be coming from anywhere else?

I also got the squeaking noise a while ago but mine is from swing arm, so i changed the bush and bearing of swing arm and also greased the bush in monoshock, now the squeaking noise is gone. Before taking out bush of monoshock and swing arm oil them so that they can be opened easily if jammed. I oiled them and covered 100 km and opened them, the came out without problem.

**Aakash Singh** · 12-25-2016, 10:02 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Kartik Shetty View Post

In the rains I prefer to keep the rear brake at a loose setting & use engine braking more often. But if i brake hard the rear fish tails pretty badly.. But since it has good tire life,i don't mind having less grip since i don't ride that hard. [emoji16]

How do you perform engine braking, when i perform engine braking on low gears say 2nd or 3rd gear rear tyre locks and fishtails.
Can you please tell me how you perform engine braking from high gear and low gear.

**accuengineer** · 12-26-2016, 11:16 AM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Aakash Singh View Post

How do you perform engine braking, when i perform engine braking on low gears say 2nd or 3rd gear rear tyre locks and fishtails.
Can you please tell me how you perform engine braking from high gear and low gear.

Hai

Kindly go through this article of "The art of braking" by our moderators.

xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/art-safe-riding/10780-braking.html

Cheers

Mathews

**Kartik Shetty** · 12-26-2016, 11:21 AM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Aakash Singh View Post

How do you perform engine braking, when i perform engine braking on low gears say 2nd or 3rd gear rear tyre locks and fishtails.
Can you please tell me how you perform engine braking from high gear and low gear.

I usually downshift at around 3k rpm, the wheels will lock up if u don't blip the throttle.

**Aakash Singh** · 12-26-2016, 01:07 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by accuengineer View Post

Hai

Kindly go through this article of "The art of braking" by our moderators.

xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/art-safe-riding/10780-braking.html

Cheers

Mathews

I can't find engine braking in that page it's all about front and rear brake.
I found this page more practical than the one you shared in your post.

Universal Thread - Braking - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/universal-threads/7102-universal-thread-braking-2.html

The gold mine of all the topics which are frequently discussed..

Originally posted by Kartik Shetty View Post

I usually downshift at around 3k rpm, the wheels will lock up if u don't blip the throttle.

I'm very new to engine braking. I have never done engine braking on my fzs because of its fragile nature, i was afraid that i will break some engine part or clutch.
Here is what i am doing.
If i am on 5th gear and going around 70-80 kmph.
First i downshift to 4th gear and leave the clutch without touching the throttle. Now the bike reaches 55-60.
Then i increase the rpm to around 3k to 4k and downshift again to 3rd gear leave the throttle and clutch.
I had not problem in doing above method. But tell me if i am doing wrong.
The problem is when i'm riding with my bike in 3rd gear.
When i downshift to second gear after leaving the throttle it just locks (Not locks but it skids) the rear tyre.

**Kartik Shetty** · 12-26-2016, 01:10 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Aakash Singh View Post

I can't find engine braking in that page it's all about front and rear brake.
I found this page more practical than the one you shared in your post.

Universal Thread - Braking - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/universal-threads/7102-universal-thread-braking-2.html

The gold mine of all the topics which are frequently discussed..

I'm very new to engine braking. I have never done engine braking on my fzs because of its fragile nature, i was afraid that i will break some engine part or clutch.
Here is what i am doing.
If i am on 5th gear and going around 70-80 kmph.
First i downshift to 4th gear and leave the clutch without touching the throttle. Now the bike reaches 55-60.
Then i increase the rpm to around 3k to 4k and downshift again to 3rd gear leave the throttle and clutch.
I had not problem in doing above method. But tell me if i am doing wrong.
The problem is when i'm riding with my bike in 3rd gear.
When i downshift to second gear after leaving the throttle it just locks (Not locks but it skids) the rear tyre.

There's no hard & fast rule, its all about practicing. If the wheel locks up then try downshifting a little late. Also what tyre pressure do you maintain?

**Aakash Singh** · 12-26-2016, 01:18 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Kartik Shetty View Post

There's no hard & fast rule, its all about practicing. If the wheel locks up then try downshifting a little late. Also what tyre pressure do you maintain?

28 front and 33 rear.

**bobisbacktorock** · 12-26-2016, 04:10 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by farhan666 View Post

Hi everyone, my name is Farhan and I am from hyderabad.i am a newbie in bikes and recently I bought a preowned FZs, 2014 model and it hasn't been maintained properly and is overly abused.the engine sounds very gruff and am sure the timing chain needs to be changed and the tappets also needs to be adjuisted and many other things. So if there's any fz owner here from hyderabad who can help me find a expert mechanic to fix my poor baby, I will be truly grateful to you brother.SVC are useless here. Moderators please move it to a correct thread if it's not this one. Thanks in advance brother riders.

PM me. Will try to help you.

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Originally posted by Aakash Singh View Post

Hi! Friends what is normal life of swing arm's bush and bearings.
SVC never greased them even when i suggested them, so after 32k km it started making squeaking noise. After changing the bush and bearing the sound was gone but know bike feel weird to ride. In uneven road it tends to steer automatically, this happened to brother in laws fazer when he had installed contigo because of hard compound. But for me it started after bush and bearing change. In the streets it becomes very difficult you have to keep eyes on the uneven road. And i also tried it on highway around 80+ whole rear end started vibrating, like rear Tyre was slipping.
I had shown that to mechanic but he said everything is alright.

I also complained about carelessness of svc regarding maintenance time table. He started praising yamaha, saying you are lucky that you have fzs and blah blah. He said that normal bush bearing life was 12k kms. Is he right?

12k kms is definitely too much. These bushes should happily go on till 30 - 50k kms under normal conditions.

For bikes that are abused under direct rain water and sunlight, may be 20 - 30k.

Greasing the bushes every 20K kms should make them last long enough.

Bike tending to steer by its on, specially on the edges of a road/tar layer also points to a worn tire. YES! you won't believe it but its true.

Stick to the stock tires which is MRF i guess and your bike should behave normally. Also be aware that even tires can be defective / faulty at times. So just blaming a machine for a faulty tire would not be right.

**accuengineer** · 12-26-2016, 05:48 PM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Aakash Singh View Post

I can't find engine braking in that page it's all about front and rear brake.
I found this page more practical than the one you shared in your post.

Universal Thread - Braking - xBhp.com : The Global Indian Biking Community

http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/universal-threads/7102-universal-thread-braking-2.html

The gold mine of all the topics which are frequently discussed..

Hai

I would not recommend engine brake as a substitute for normal braking. Engine braking is highly recommended when coming down a slope as the brakes can get heated up and lose its efficiency.

Engine braking works in the reverse manner to acceleration. If you want to use engine braking to slightly decelerate you speed say from 80-90 kmph to 50-60 kmph. At that speed depress your clutch fully and then lower your gear. Now slowly release the clutch. Here the safe way is to release the clutch slowly after downshifting or else you will get a jerk which could lead to fishtailing of the rear wheel.

Cheers

Mathews

**Prince_Haider** · 01-01-2017, 01:54 AM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Mad Mik View Post

Aside from the colors the wiring is different. the CDI has different wiring. The FZS has 1 single 8 plug and 1 white wire on the CDI whereas the FZ16/Byson has 1 single 8 pin plug and 1 single 4 pin plug. The CDI's are NOT interchangable (I was sold a FZ16/Byson CDI and it does not connect to my FZS)

I have fzs 2009, and unfortunately i bought a 8pin racing cdi without review of stock cdi which is 8pin + 4pin cdi.

Please help me.... Please

**Fredrick Leanas** · 01-05-2017, 01:19 AM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Taking delivery of my FZ S FI V2, Battle Green, tomorrow. Any advice for the beginner.

**nadz11.ns** · 01-05-2017, 02:02 AM

Re: Yamaha FZ-16/ FZ-S

Originally posted by Fredrick Leanas View Post

Taking delivery of my FZ S FI V2, Battle Green, tomorrow. Any advice for the beginner.

Nothing as such. Just get proper PDI (pre-delivery Inspection) done properly.

And all the best for a happy ownership.

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