Topic: Installing new grips?

[BenelliSEI]

Installed new grips on a new bar today. The clutch side seemed pretty tight. I was up at the house,(not in the shop, really nasty weather here), so put the kettle on. Poured boiling hot water in a bowl and tossed the grip in. After a few minutes, pulled it out, shook off the excess water, and it slid on easily. In a few minutes, cooled down, totally dry and really on there!

Needed to trim and smooth the throttle tube (old single cable style). Just finished it up the same way and went on in seconds. The grips are very soft and expand when hot.....

[rocket johnny]

i still use hair spray   never a problem

[Kelly E]

i still use hair spray   never a problem

I use PB Blaster, it's really slick at first but it dries out to become sticky. I don't have any hairspray laying around out in the shop.

[Alan F.]

i still use hair spray   never a problem

I have a travel size can I bought in 2007 for this purpose, still works great and hasn't even clogged the nozzle.

[scottly]

 

[grcamna2]

Installed new grips on a new bar today. The clutch side seemed pretty tight. I was up at the house,(not in the shop, really nasty weather here), so put the kettle on. Poured boiling hot water in a bowl and tossed the grip in. After a few minutes, pulled it out, shook off the excess water, and it slid on easily. In a few minutes, cooled down, totally dry and really on there!

Needed to trim and smooth the throttle tube (old single cable style). Just finished it up the same way and went on in seconds. The grips are very soft and expand when hot.....

John,are those oem Honda grips ?

[dave500]

i blow them on with compressed air.

[BenelliSEI]

Installed new grips on a new bar today. The clutch side seemed pretty tight. I was up at the house,(not in the shop, really nasty weather here), so put the kettle on. Poured boiling hot water in a bowl and tossed the grip in. After a few minutes, pulled it out, shook off the excess water, and it slid on easily. In a few minutes, cooled down, totally dry and really on there!

Needed to trim and smooth the throttle tube (old single cable style). Just finished it up the same way and went on in seconds. The grips are very soft and expand when hot.....

John,are those oem Honda grips ?

No, aftermarket but so close I cannot tell the difference! Vintagecb750 and 4 into 1 sell them (cheap). Not very comfortable, but correct.

[PeWe]

Warm them a good one. Water a softer way.

No risk that a lube will make them to move when they should not or chemicals react with the grip.

[beemerbum]

On this topic, I installed Honda OEM grips on a 1972 750 and used Motion Pro grip glue. Now I would like to remove the grip from the throttle tube. And advice will be appreciated.

[BenelliSEI]

On this topic, I installed Honda OEM grips on a 1972 750 and used Motion Pro grip glue. Now I would like to remove the grip from the throttle tube. And advice will be appreciated.

Try throwing the whole thing in a pot of boiling water for several minutes. That might soften the glue enough to pull it off..... If not; slice, peel it off and order a new one. Why take it off?

[Alan F.]

This is the original throttle side grip from my CB160:

[RAFster122s]

The good bad old days of steel throttle tubes and the earlier bikes had that funky cable wire actuated lever than was in a cut out in the bars...S90 used these. Real pita if it was messed up and not working smoothly as you had to noodle out how it worked and figure out what was causing it to not spring back smoothly.

How do you do a smooth cutout in the end of the grip tubes for when you have:
 1 - bar end mirrors
 2 - bar weights
 3 - bar end signals 
 4 - a set of hand guard wind deflectors
on the bike?
Not like you can easily pop the grip in a vice on a drill press and use a hole saw on them without some Yankee engineering.
Do you get a section of conduit or similar sized metal pipe and file fine teeth then use a round file to sharpen those teeth with bevel from inside the pipe towards outer radius/circumference? Then use your mark 1 eye ball and manually spin it to cut the center out. Tried doing it with a sharp xacto #11 blade and you can imagine how ragged that turned out...

I like the Randakk gel soft grips, think he refers to them as super grips or some such... They are soft to touch, absorb some vibration and stay tacky grip with your riding gloves, not slippery.

I think whenever I tackle the restore on the 65 CA95 Benly Touring 150 it gets a set of those coke bottle barrel like grips that had the waffle texture popular in the late 60s to early 70s... It is a rough example that will get full strip down with any rusty areas of original steel stripped to bare metal to neutralize the rust. Might just make sense to get the frame and parts media blasted with glass or something not too aggressive but will strip any rust as well as paint... Or take the scale back on any surface rus. Then soak frame and fenders in a heavy plastic bath made to play the frame into with blocks beneath the plastic Togo around the frame and create a more conforming cradle..maybe I will just dig a hole in the sand and dirt and build a sand castle mound around the sh to lay the frame in... then build a form for walls above ground level then lay in a couple big sheets of heavy plastic. use some hard plastic standoffs to lift the frame off the plastic to set it on to fill the pool I created with my Oxalic Acid bath... drop a few big blocks around areas not mounded up or requiring bigger walls in the solution, then cover it with a layer of black 0lastic sheeting when filled and let the AZ sun warm the solution to make it work faster. Two days with some cleaning after the first day to drag it out wire brush it rinse it and then back in for overnight and next day...
Then any inside rust gets a chance to be addressed if any exists and then rinse and wire brush and rinse and let it dry in sun on 3rd day and then get it inside so no condensation can occur as easily with more dramatic temp swings most nights in early summer. July and August it never gets below 70-75F, so little risk unless we have monsoon rain then this project wouldn't be happening then...

Sorry I kinda went off the deep end thinking out loud going way off topic.
Your grip looks good John and nice but of input by all you others...

Peace, later...
David

[newday777]

On this topic, I installed Honda OEM grips on a 1972 750 and used Motion Pro grip glue. Now I would like to remove the grip from the throttle tube. And advice will be appreciated.

A shot of brake cleaner or contact cleaner works.
Get a long thin flatblade screwdriver and open the end of the grip to get the spray tip in under the grip, then twist and slide off.

[Mooshie]

Compressed air will remove it lickety split.  Just shoot it in there but don't stand to the left or right of it-- tends to shoot across the room