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Throttle grip installation

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drewandkellie

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I am replacing deteriorated foam grips on my 79 GS1000E. I cut the old after market foam grip off my throttle sleeve and now need to slide on the new rubber grip. Is there a trick to getting the new grip on. I rememeber once hearing you put the grip in hot watter to make it stretch easier and use soapy water to slide it on, that was twenty five years ago. I could have remembered it incorrectly. Any tips?
 
Yep

Yep

I recently put on stock grips on my 1100. I think the method you've described will work perfectly!
 
I use contact cement. Just brush it on the plastic sleeve and slid the grip on right away. While the cement is still wet the grip slides on easily and after a few hours the cement cures and the grip is firmly in place, Ted
 
golf club grips. if you know someone who golfs they've probably replaced their grips. the new grips have this tape and spary. wrap the tube with the tape and spray the stuff in the grip and onto the tape. it takes about 15 mins before it want to move and after a day it won't come loose. its meant to hold grips on a club with the end excedding 100mph, i don't think a grip get pulled harder that that force.
 
Hair spray. Get the really really cheap, nasty sticky stuff.

Goes on watery and slick, dries super-sticky and water-resistant.

If you have an air compressor, a few seconds of compressed air under each grip will sort dry out the hair spray in a few seconds so you can go riding.
 
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