yamaha xt600 3tb air scoops
 

i have a xt600 3tb (1991) and trying to get the two tank airscoops , i know you can still get them from yamaha ,but gee they are not cheap !!!! ,i dont suppose anyone has some laying around they would like to sell me , or are they like rocking horse poo second hand ?

Gold plated rocking horse poo. Both mine have now fallen off and I have been looking on eBay for months, but they never come up, and any you do find have the studs broken in the same places. It might be cheaper to get someone to plastic weld the old ones. My plan is to take the metal tangs off the tank and just forget about them. I think the bike looks fine without.

aye i think you are right , i cant believe there are no second hand ones , lots of ones for previous models , and later but not this :(i am into RD's and you can find most bits for any model , must be someone hoarding them all :confused1:

Nah, they're just crap :)

That's the trouble with secondhand parts - the bits that break for you, break for everyone else too. I once had a Triumph Dolomite and the petrol tank rusted through and leaked fumes everywhere - design fault, as the well it was sitting in didn't have a drain hole and it was sitting in water every time it rained. Every single one I found in a scrapyard had the same problem, and I had to spring for a new one.

Also, being an off-roader, bits that stick out are far more likely to be damaged than on a pure road bike, I would have thought. And it will always be the same bits!

Yeah I have the same problem and I also cant find a spare headlight surround....yam want 450 bucks for it,I did see on here somewhere an american chap had made some from aluminium but I think hes was a sheet metal worker,....