Need a little help

[furious4]

I'v been trying to find a set of driver step rubbers for my 80 xs1100 mns. the ones I find are the smaller ones I believe go on the older models. does anyone know where to get these or has anyone fit aftermarket footpegs on theirs? Mine look like dogs have been chewing them up

[latexeses]

Try running a search from the bar at the top of the page, for "foot peg rubbers".

Should get the info you need.

Rodger

[fredintoon]

I'v been trying to find a set of driver step rubbers for my 80 xs1100 mns. the ones I find are the smaller ones I believe go on the older models. does anyone know where to get these or has anyone fit aftermarket footpegs on theirs? Mine look like dogs have been chewing them up

Hi Jason,
yeah, mine did too. I did extensive e-searches looking for new replacement rubbers to no avail. Everyone has the ordinary footpeg rubbers but it seems nobody has the wide ones. A cursory look at my old ratty pegs makes me think the rubbers could be moulded in place which may explain why nobody sells a replacement rubber part. You may have to find complete pegs rather than just the rubber bits. I lucked out, finding a list member who was modifying his Special and had a set of pegs with good rubber that he no longer needed.
Just maybe Andreas Weiss has a set? He didn't when I was looking but that was a while back.
The ordinary pegs that you can find rubbers for will swap right in BTW.
And like Rodger sez, use the search function. I do remember somebody using aftermarket pegs but all I remember was that they were real fancy and not cheap.

[CatatonicBug]

AFAIK, there are no replacement rubbers for the wide pegs. Like Fred said, they are molded into place, and are not replaceable. You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled for someone with a parts bike that still has decent pegs, or swap them out for the smaller pegs (or the really shiny after-market ones, but they'd look funny on a MNS, IMO).

[cywelchjr]

AFAIK, there are no replacement rubbers for the wide pegs. Like Fred said, they are molded into place, and are not replaceable. You'll just have to keep your eyes peeled for someone with a parts bike that still has decent pegs, or swap them out for the smaller pegs (or the really shiny after-market ones, but they'd look funny on a MNS, IMO).

I wonder if we can come up with a way to get someone with GOOD rubber on the pegs to somehow make a mold of them that could be used with some sort of material to remold the pags? We would have to find the proper material for the mold and for the rubber to put on them and then find a way to provide the heat and such to do the molding, but it just might be doable. What do you guys think? Otherwise I'm going to have to find something aftermarket to put on there since I have bare metal pegs now, and all the ones I find on ebay are in pretty bad shape, there was one good set, but the price went astronomical really really fast.

[CatatonicBug]

Great idea, unfortunately the setup on something like that is unbelievably expensive. Unless we could do runs in the thousands of pieces, it would just be way too expensive. Molding ain't cheap...

[randy]

They are not molded in place, they are removeable.

[blue giant]

Search for XJ1100 foot peg rubbers as well, I believe they are the same style!

[fredintoon]

Great idea, unfortunately the setup on something like that is unbelievably expensive. Unless we could do runs in the thousands of pieces, it would just be way too expensive. Molding ain't cheap...

Hi 'Bug,
mebbe 20 years back we had guys visit our design office offering to custom mould rubber parts for us. They claimed they had a low-temperature process that allowed them to make moulds out of wood and offered to do as little as 10-off.

[randy]

Here's a right side assembly NOS on Ebay....

#150353085772

[CatatonicBug]

They are not molded in place, they are removeable.

Dunno what yours look like, but they are definitely not removable on my footpegs. The rubber is molded around the metal, all the way to the tip. No removable parts unless you cut the rubber away.

[Bigleo]

pegs

Hi, thats pretty much normal on foot peg rubbers, you have to cut them off. I just bought some recently for my 1980 from the yamaha dealer. I'm pretty sure they are still available. To install them, spray the metal part of the peg with hairspray, then pound the rubber on with a hammer. No problem.
Leo

[switz1]

They can can be cut off and new ones "pushed" on I just done it last week. Gotta keep an eye out on Ebay, they show up rarely