Headlight/instrument Cluster bracket

Garrydymond

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The bracket/stay which attaches to the frame has cracked on my bike. I don’t know why as it has never been crashed but I am guessing the rough roads if Mexico have finally taken the toll. I can’t find a part number for the piece. Hopefully somebody can help me. I am not sure what it is made of and if it can be repaired.
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That's a new one. For my '15 ES, the fairing stay is part #23P-28356-01-00. Only $75 on Ron Ayers
 

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That's a new one. For my '15 ES, the fairing stay is part #23P-28356-01-00. Only $75 on Ron Ayers
Thanks that is the part number I found. I’ll go to the local dealer here in Mexico City and see what price they give me and how long it will take to get. Sometimes parts are cheaper here and sometimes they are a little more expensive. I have no idea why it broke but the streets here are sometimes a disaster.
 

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I've seen where a hard tip-over can provide enough inertia with a big wind screen and maybe a gps to crack that sub frame. It can be epoxied if it bothers you until/if the part gets there.
Fun note, that part # 53 will finish up the empty space up front for the Gen I bikes just fine.
 

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I ordered the part today at my local Yamaha dealer in Mexico City. It cost about 75 dollars which is similar to online prices in the US. The parts guy said it will take about 2 weeks to get here which I doubt. In the meantime I put some zip ties which gives me some piece of mind.
 

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My plastic cracked a bit, but the frame mount on the steering head totally failed.



I was offered a new frame under warranty, but I fixed it myself, with the help of my pro welder brother.






A warranty job meant the bike would sit in the corner of the dealer's workshop for months while the apprentice sorted it, and the frame had to come from Japan. Much better than stock now too.
 

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Australia and South Africa worked out to be the beta testers for the Ténéré, rack failures, frame cracks, what all else 10-11 years ago, thank y'all for your service. LOL.
 

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The bracket/stay which attaches to the frame has cracked on my bike. I don’t know why as it has never been crashed but I am guessing the rough roads if Mexico have finally taken the toll. I can’t find a part number for the piece. Hopefully somebody can help me. I am not sure what it is made of and if it can be repaired.
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Garrydymond, is bad to see you had experience such problem, my concern will be that the failure might be due to stress and as you said it might be due to the Mexican roads, but never the less I had seen that many bikes are use off road and the stress they experience might be even tougher than the roads we can see in Mexico.
It will be good to know if someone else in the forum had experienced the same problem and also the route cause needs to be identify!
Did you experienced a continuous vibration in your bike? Strange front tire worn out? I might not be an expert to define the route cause but some one might help!
Also I was surprised that the piece cost was reasonable, I have seen many of the spare parts in Mexico are very expensive even I have seen that looking to may of the sources, the price in Mexico it is as expensive as it might be in Europe. My personal example was to by the clutch basket, I end up buying it in the US and bringing it to Mexico, it was close to $900.00 usd when I first quoted and I end up spending around $400 usd, also the lead time was many weeks when you where able to get it imported in a week or so. I have seen many of the US vendors that will ship to Mexico too.
Hope you get your bike up an running soon.
Regards.
 

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Mine failed but in a different spot. Documented in a separate thread that could be merged here. I have epoxied and zipped tied it, while awaiting the backordered part. Hard to say if it was rough riding or a tip over. I had fractured a Ram X mount from rough stuff, so not shocked the stay failed. I am debating whether to reinforce the new one before installation.
 

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The bracket/stay which attaches to the frame has cracked on my bike. I don’t know why as it has never been crashed but I am guessing the rough roads if Mexico have finally taken the toll. I can’t find a part number for the piece. Hopefully somebody can help me. I am not sure what it is made of and if it can be repaired.
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My 2105 ZE had the same failure on my last trip, exactly the same break! Going to source tomorrow in South Africa, wondering if there is a way to reinforce this part as well.
My region has very corrugated gravel roads.
 

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I replaced the part which was a little time consuming but not that difficult. I used loctite on the threads and torqued it to the correct setting.
 

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Same here....the stay 1 failed me as well after a heavy off road track...

I just wonder why yamaha did it in plastic instead of being a metallic piece attached to the frame.....I will never get yamaha's point on this...

The oem replacement part is 110 usd...

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Purificator81

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I will add however that the issue might have been the load...I have the givi brackets on it with givi airflow windshield (2 pieces)...plus I put a garmin gps with its ram mount...plus a TPMS....the weight might have contributed to the cracks but I just expected more from Yamaha...

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Cracked mine a couple of weeks ago, at the main bolt to the steering head. 160k kms on this 14.

Since I have a light bar, big lights, a Madstad with their large shield, and then a bigger gps mounted to that, I'm pretty sure it earned replacement.

If I was only replacing Stay 1, then it's 35 minute job. I know the bike well. But... cleaned up some wiring, took off the upper triple so I could take apart the key switch and clean it, I spent a couple of hours on it.

I went straight in the front. Removed the side cowls to access two major bolts each side in the front going to the side stays. Then pulled the shield, brackets, headlight cowl, headlight, and clocks. The main bolt off the frame, and pulled it out. Swapped over the retainers, refit.

Guilty bastard:

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