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Originally Posted by 5th_bike
Well when you unscrew the long screw, the end weight; the screw; a piece of rubber; a metal tube; and maybe a ring come off and out. Another piece of rubber (the piece that expands between the ring and the nut) and the nut will stay in the handlebar.
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My throttle side bar end has come off. I have retrieved all the pieces except the nut (which is presumably lost in the handlebars somewhere).
Here's what I've unsuccessfully done so far:
1) The "a piece of rubber" (in bold above) doesn't seem to want to fit back into the handlebar. Is this normal? I don't know how I'm going to reinstall the bar end if I can't get that piece of rubber back into the handlebar. Do I have to rubber hammer it in? :??:
2) Not wanting to tip my bike over, I tried to retrieve the nut by removing the handlebars. I faced two obstacles:
a) I can't figure out what tool to use to unscrew the top of the risers. What in the word are those pieces? They're like chrome circles with seemingly no possibility to use a wrench or a socket or anything to loosen them. I did not face this problem on my GS450 (which I could use a socket wrench to loosen the tops of the risers). How do those GZ250 riser bolts work? What tool do I need?
b) Since I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to loosen the tops of the risers, I decided to take the risers off from underneath the triple tree. I got one nut off (with a socket wrench) just fine. But I'll be darned if I could get the other off. I just about pulled my shoulder out of it's socket trying to get it out. Oy. Not to mention the one time the socket wrench went flying and put a tiny ding in the tank!!! :cuss: Any recommendations on how to get that nut loosened?
3) Lastly, do I really even need to retrieve the bar end nut out of the handle bar anyway? If I have a nut that'll fit (laying around in a bin of nuts :2tup: ), is the barend nut anything special? Or will any old nut pretty much do?
I'm hoping the answer to #3 is any old nut will do. In which case, I just need to figure out how to reinstall the bar end. Which I seem a little confused about given #1 above.
Appreciate any help as this seems to be confusing me.
