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[Hombre]

I would like to ... identify a part which I have found loose under the air filter bottom housing.

If the part is what you show in your Avatar, it looks very like a waterproofing cap of a 12V cigarette lighter socket.

[Pjshez01]

Hi Azza

Thanks for the response. The part is as the photo - with my limited knowledge of the site the photo appeared there.

 

The part was found resting on the L/H frame rail when I removed the bottom half air filter base.

 

My concern if belongs to the bike in some shape way or form. The bike is not fitted with a 12v socket but that does not mean a socket was fitted in the past.

 

I have family in Sydney and Melbourne. Great place to live

 

Thanks for the support.

 

PJS

[Pjshez01]

2008 TDM. Looking at my Avtar picture, can anybody please tell me where this plastic cover/cap might of come from. I found it sitting on top of the left hand frame /chassis member after removing the lower half air box body. I thought it might of fallen down off the petrol tank or off the inside of the frame above the engine but cannot see any exposed mating holes. I am not even sure it belongs to the bike which would be a nice outcome - I don't think its a cover off a 12 v auxiliary socket although the bike is not fitted with one. Any ideas anyone??
 
Cheers
Paul

[Pjshez01]

Hi Hombre

 

Thanks. This seems to be a favourite suggestion. I just want to make 100% sure it is nothing off the TDM before I re assemble.

I can't see how 12v  cover came to rest where it was found and that is what is making me concerned it may be a cover off somewhere to do with the engine, top frame or petrol tank areas.

 

appreciate the response.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

[Studley Ramrod]

Maybe someone stuffed it there to fill a gap atween frame and airbox ?

[CrashTestDuffy]

Looks like it could also be a cover off of a key barrel. Hard to tell from the tiny pic when viewed on mobile, is it hinged?

[Pjshez01]

Hi Crash

Great question. Had look under a magnifying glass but there is a very tiny hole all the way through the bottom of the leg. I would say almost certainly it had a  tiny pin through to act as a hinge. The cap its self is 20mm in dia

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[fixitsan]

Could be a cover for a charge port or battery conditioner connector

[PICARD]

Just my 2p worth....if no body on here recognises it as a TDM part, I would suggest it's not. Crack on.

[Pjshez01]

Everyone

Many Thanks for the responses. I have to agree that the consensus is a foreign part to the TDM and to use Pickard's advice - crack on and re assemble and ride.

 

Cheers again greatly appreciate the support.

 

Regards

 

Paul

[AzzA]

Looks like the top off a Pez dispenser... Pez did a "grease monkey" line a few years ago, it wasn't all that popular; they probably steeped too far out of their demographic... that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

[AzzA]

Hi Azza

Thanks for the response. The part is as the photo - with my limited knowledge of the site the photo appeared there.

 

The part was found resting on the L/H frame rail when I removed the bottom half air filter base.

 

My concern if belongs to the bike in some shape way or form. The bike is not fitted with a 12v socket but that does not mean a socket was fitted in the past.

 

I have family in Sydney and Melbourne. Great place to live

 

Thanks for the support.

 

PJS

G'day PJS,

 

kinda looks like a cap on a trailer socket, small seven pin, but without scale it's hard to tell.

 

It's most definitely not OEM Yamaha TD900.

 

Toss it your box of mystery bits, we all have one; you'll find a use for it one day, or it'll give archaeologists and anthropologists something to muse over in years to come. ;-)

 

Cheers,

AzzA