bar end weights install problem

[mr_diver]

I saw how they went together before I removed them... because the road did a good job of removing them for me to take a look at them  

[MartinW]

.... because the road did a good job of removing them for me to take a look at them .....

Same here, one of my first set fell out on a ride somewhere, so I found out how they work when the new ones got delivered.

[EireSkull]

Oh no was just fixing the heated grips and just unscrewed the bar end out and can't get it back in

[greywolf]

You have to use a wire to fish the expander plug and its central nut out or take the other end off properly and use a flexible rod or compressed air to push it out.

[Abercol]

Or take off the other side and stick the garden hose on the bar...flushed out the nut a treat....Just had to find it on my driveway afterwards.

I didn't have any flexible wire or piping to hand and the only compressed air I had was in the tyres!

Had to leave the ends off while it dried out though.

[EireSkull]

I'm going to give both of those ideas a go just waiting on the rain to stop, can I ask this on Greywolfs diagram Bolt #5 do I try to take that out first as its really jammed in, or does it all come out together.

[greywolf]

#5 is an all metal part and shouldn't be hung up. The #8 rubber part and #9 nut inside are usually the only parts that stick inside the bar. If #5 is stuck, tapping it should free it up.

[DEF2001]

Can this post get displayed at the top of the page because I have just gone and done the same thing then had use an wire coat hanger as described to tease out the rubber bar ends. If only I knew then what I know now I could have saved myself 1/2 an hour.

[MartinW]

If someone writes up a sensible post, with pictures, then I will put it in the TOP TECHNICAL POSTS section.
 

[Jacko]

Another one... Will they ever end?

[EireSkull]

Got mine out in the end inside of the bars were full of rust,never seen anything like it had to take the handle bars off the bike.