first,welcome to the site. the only thing I can tell you about changing levers and grips is don't forget to grease the piviot point on the levers. when I changed my grips on my last bike I just cut the old ones off, spit in the new ones, slid them on put, the bar ends back on and let it rip. never had any problems but I was told i should have glued them on.



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hairspray ftw!!

 

What kinda bike ya got Lammy? That would help if we knew the yr model, it's really simple on my 07' 1K. It just takes a couple basic hand tools and a lil thinkin'. It only took me about ten mins...

 

BEST way to get grips off is to take an air compressor and shoot air underneath the grip while pulling on grip. They will literally float off without any damage whatsoever. Hairspray is the best route for putting new ones back on.

 

Should take you a whopping 15 min to change 2 grips and 2 levers.

 

levers pretty simple to put on instructions should help alot. as far as grips, I cut them off and used rubbing alchohol on the new ones.. slid on nicely no problems as of yet..

 

Compressed air off/on and if you dont have that at your disposal then hairspray works good to put them on. Changing leavers jst reverse what you did to get them off. the hole presses should only take ya about 15 mins or so:thumbup:

 

Yeah wish I would have read up on that when I did mine. I am almost daily trying to muscle F it back on where its supposed to be.

 

hey grips sound easy enough but no instructions came with the levers.... by the way its a 02 gsxr 750

 

What kind of levers?

 

http://luckybike.com/brake-clutch-l...s-suzuki-gsxr-1000-9703-blue-p-238.html?osCsid=8357bba5a3e5d5f7509b2f0c7f9b4fc4

 

is it just the one bolt on both sides?

 

helppp

ok so the levers were easy enough (the brake is a lil lose if u shake it up and down)..... the grips ended up not fitting on but after i slid the old ones back on i went to screw the screw in and it didnt really stay.... i think it was just screwing into the little rubber thing so bascially i could just push the screw in and out.... anyone have any idea how to fix this? thankks

 

ok so the levers were easy enough (the brake is a lil lose if u shake it up and down)..... the grips ended up not fitting on but after i slid the old ones back on i went to screw the screw in and it didnt really stay.... i think it was just screwing into the little rubber thing so bascially i could just push the screw in and out.... anyone have any idea how to fix this? thankks

Funny enough, another member on here had the same problem only days ago. The rubber stopper which the screw screws into has been pushed too far into the bar. You need to remove the bar ends and try to draw the rubber bit back out. Either get a longer screw and gently screw it a little way into the rubber stopper and then pull it back out or find something long and thin (no jokes please!!) which you can hook into it so you can draw it back out. Once out enough, the knack is to very gently screw the bar end screw into the rubber stopper; too fast or too firm and you just push it back in. The screw needs to grip it before you can really screw it in.

Hope this helps!

Danny

 

thanks man.... only thing, where the rubber piece is now the screw gets through it but it just doesnt hold real good..... and on the clutch side the rubber is right at the edge and although it is a lil tighter, it still isnt like its fully locked in

 

This may sound like a strange thing to do, but try inserting some rawplugs into the rubber piece first. Yes, the same things which you put into a wall before screwing in a bolt. Make sure they are the correct size for the diameter of your bolts (probably around 10mm). then when you screw in the bolt, the rubber will expand creating a secure grip in the bar. If that sounds too much like hard work, use the old hairspray trick again but this time spray inside the bar ends and then put the rubber piece in. Allow to set overnight and then screw in you bar ends. Not as secure as the first option, but they shouldn't move about after this which is what you want.

 

i used baby oil once it dried it worked great. i dont know how to solve one problem i had one of them split after a few months.

 

Another newbie here...
This is very helpful, i plan on doin the same thing to my bike when i get home from Iraq. Thanks