Hello everyone.
Installed my FT bars today, so wanted to post up a quick and dirty how to...
The install is pretty straight forward, the biggest thing to watch out for is scratching your tank.
First, you should verify that you got all 3 pieces necessary to make this swap.
Handlebars, lower clamp and top clamp. Mine came with 4 new bolts, but you could re use the old ones I suppose.
***NOTICE IF LIABILITY***
Before you perform ANY work, ask yourself if you are confident in performing this task?
If at ANY point, you feel like you are in over your head, STOP!
You are taking your life into your own hands if something was to come loose at the most inconvenient time.
You are, thereby, assuming ALL risk and respnsible for ANY consequences.
You will need: 8mm socket, 15mm wrench, 3,4,5,6 and 8mm allens.
I started off by pulling everything off my bars.
Mirrors, levers, left and right button clusters, and throttle tube so my bars looked like this:
Then I removed the 4 allen bolts holding the top clamp in place.
This exposes the 8mm allenheads that hold the lower clamp in place.
You can loosen them but leave them in for now.
You will need the 15mm wrench to hold on to the nuts on the bottom.
When you crack them loose, look behind the instrument cluster, and loosen the 3 4mm allenhead bolts.
You can get to 2 of them pretty easy, but the 3rd one you can just crack loose and leave it in there.
Now you can fully remove the 2 bolts that hold the lower clamp to the upper triple clamp.
Be careful, there are 2 washers under the nuts and also 2 washers under the clamp.
With the bolts out, you can move the lower mount somthat you can get the last screw out of the instrument cluster.
The bottom plastic pease can come out.
Before you can remove the instrument cluster, you need to un-do the plug in the back
This is pretty easy, just takes a little bit of patience.
You need to push in the tab while you rotate the lever.
This can be done with bare hands.
Now you can remove the cluster and pull out the lower clamp.
Youmwill notice there are 3 rubber mounts that mount the instrument cluster to the lower clamp.
They need to come out.
First, pull out the metal inserts, then squeeze the rubber mounts and slide them inward.
At this point, you are half done, time to start putting everything back in reverse order.
Re install the rubber mounts, then slide the metal inserts in.
Get the new lower clamp, feed the instrument cluster through, plug cluster back in.
Install the cluster screws along with the black plastic piece.
Dont worry about tightening all the way.
Install lower clamp, remember the washers under the clamp and under the nuts.
Tighten the 3 bolts for the instrument cluster.
Install your new handlebars and top clamp.
Fit the bolts snug, not too tight.
You want to get the handlebars pretty close to center and close to the final position.
Its not a good idea to move the handlebars too much when the bolts are tight because you will scratch the black anodizing.
Once the bars are where you like it, tighten down the 4 bolts that hold the top clamp.
The gap on the front and back of the clamp should be the same.
Install the electronic button clusters.
Make sure you line up the hole in the handlebars and the locating pin on the plastic mount!
On the clutch side, its pretty self explanitory.
On the gas side there are 2 holes and the buttons need the inner hole.
The outside hole is for the throttle tube.....which you can install now.
Lastly, the clutch and brake levers and you should be done.
Your final project should look like this:
