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Road Master
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From: Between purgatory and retirement
Pull everything and start again.
This time, do it right: clip-on extensions have no business in the middle of the bars.
IMHO.
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Road Master
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: NC
That would be the plan. But how do you pull the pos extensions out? I tried a coat hanger since my last post with no luck
Road Captain
Joined: Mar 2016
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From: Dewey, Arizona 86327
Big auto parts store. One of those tools with a plunger button on one end, a long flexible middle and a claw on the other. Push the plunger and the claw expands. Stuff the thing down one end of the handlebar til it stops. release the plunger and pull gently. Might take a few tries.
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Road Master
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: NC
Big auto parts store. One of those tools with a plunger button on one end, a long flexible middle and a claw on the other. Push the plunger and the claw expands. Stuff the thing down one end of the handlebar til it stops. release the plunger and pull gently. Might take a few tries.
i know the tool your talking about. I'll go grab one first thing in the morning and give it a try.
Tourer
Joined: Jul 2012
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From: White Castle, Louisiana
can opened, worms everywhere.
Lots of luck to you, bro. I just did this job on my 2011 SG and if one of my soldered connections came loose the entire bike was getting pushed into the Mississippi River
Lots of luck to you, bro. I just did this job on my 2011 SG and if one of my soldered connections came loose the entire bike was getting pushed into the Mississippi River
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Road Master
Joined: Oct 2012
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From: NC
nothing is working. Someone told me to drill a hole in bottom of bars but don't want to do that. Looks like I'm going to pour some lighter fluid inside the bars and drop a match. I think that will be safer then using a torch which will get too hot
Seasoned HDF Member
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From: Vermont
Try taking some dish detergent or liquid soap and pouring it down through the bars to get it good and slippery, then take something that is rigid enough to not give way but flexible enough to make the curve in the bar and fashion it into a hook on the end (roll of strong flexible wire like picture hanging wire or something) and jam it down into the extensions and keep pulling it after it gets snagged into the extensions. Might take a few tries but it should give way. I wouldn't light them on fire or anything, but that's just me.
Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2007
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From: Houston, Texas
Instead of trying to get them the rest of the way through, pull them back them back out and start over. If you are trying to hook them and finish the job you'll be messing with it forever. Just grab the wires and pull them back out so you can start over.
Once out, you can fix the wires however you want, then fish a new line through the bars, and as Dawg said, lube it up with dishwashing soap or even better, wire pulling lubricant you can get at the hardware store. Start over and go slow with lots of lube. They should pull through fairly easily.
Once out, you can fix the wires however you want, then fish a new line through the bars, and as Dawg said, lube it up with dishwashing soap or even better, wire pulling lubricant you can get at the hardware store. Start over and go slow with lots of lube. They should pull through fairly easily.
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Road Master
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From: NC
I think the extension is doubled up inside the bars. Fish line won't come through with a vacum, plunger doesn't have enough strength to pull it out, tried pushing/ pulling with clothes hanger and fish tape, tried dish soap, tried heating up fish tape to red hot to melt connectors, tried pushing a hose through both ends.
Only thing i know to do now is drill a hole, pull it out, and cover up the hole somehow until I get new bars. Luckily I cheaped out on the bars. I wanted gangster apes ($380) but settled for la choppers ($200) because carlini was sold out of the ones I wanted. I'll drill a hole and ride with these until I can get gangsters. Disappointing but I'm all out of ideas.
Only thing i know to do now is drill a hole, pull it out, and cover up the hole somehow until I get new bars. Luckily I cheaped out on the bars. I wanted gangster apes ($380) but settled for la choppers ($200) because carlini was sold out of the ones I wanted. I'll drill a hole and ride with these until I can get gangsters. Disappointing but I'm all out of ideas.
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From: Charlotte Metro
Dawgs advice sounds good. For something rigid & flexible have tried string trimmer line or welding wire? Welding wire is thin but very strong and you could make a hook on end of it. I used combo of both to fish my wires when I did my Yaffe bars.