Can the FJ ABS system be repaired?
Please see the two articles about ABS repair at http://kickme.to/fj1200, under the “Repair & maintenance” menu. [Chris Vollmer] Hi listers, I am writing to tell you of a misunderstanding that I was involved in recently involving this list. I saw a posting on this list (copy included below) which describes an offer by Yamaha corporation to fix, at no cost to the owner, the hydraulic unit of the ABS brakes if it has failed. This posting was from “Ahmet” and was titled with a subject line of: “FJ ABS Issues.” Due to the subject and text of this posting I took it to mean that Yamaha was offering to fix failed hydraulic units on the FJ1200 ABS! Well, I was quite happy about this news–my ABS hasn’t worked for years and I certainly don’t have the time or money to fix it, so this was quite a windfall of good fortune into my sorry life. So I called Jordan Cavanaugh at Yamaha to verify the good news before bringing the bike to the dealer. (By the way, calling this guy took over a hundred hits o
