The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

 First get a new custom face from this sight.   http://www.stargis.net/webslinger/Images/Speedo/index.htm  

Understand that in doing this mod myself and rswarrior.com take no responsibility in the outcome of what you do or mess up so attempt at your own risk. 

1. Remove the headlight cover
2. Take the 2 allen head bolts that hold the speedometer onto the uper tripple trees off.
3. Inside the headlight are three connectors for the speedometer. One green, one blue, and one red. Disconect these
   connectors and pull them threw the rear of the headlight. Now the speedometer should be compleetly off of the bike.
4. Remove the 4 screws on the back of the speedometer allowing you to remone the outer cover. Next is the fun part.
5. The beauty/retaining ring that holds the front of the speedometer together will have to be cutt off. Dont get to
   excited yet. just cut carefully across the back of the ring where it has been folded around the housing.MAKE SHURE
   TO LEAVE TABS OR SECTIONS UNCUT AS YOU GO. These will be how you are going to reinstall the ring back on later. as
   shown in the pictures.

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6. next once you have cut sections out of the back of the ring carefully bend the tabs that you left up so that the
   ring can be removed.
7. Once the ring is removed the glass and ruber gasket should come out as well.
8. The speedometer needle can be carefully removed using a regular fork that you can find in your kitchen.

9. now there are 4 screws on the back of the iner housing that you just removed the ring and glass from that will
   be removed so that you can get the speedometer out of the housing.
10.To get the speedometer face off you will remove the two outer screws on the face and very carefully use a razor
   blade to cut threw the small amount ot glue on the back of it.I also used a zip tie just to push the blade threw. TAKE YOUR TIME ON THIS.

11.Disasembly is now complete.
12.I took advantage of this time to paint the beauty ring that goes over the speedo Blue and the iner housing that
   is white is now balck as it will be seen slightly when reasembled.

  REASEMBLY
1. This is easy just take the new speedometer face and insert it back into the housing and reinstall the two small
   screws that hold it in.
2. Next take the speedometer needle and slightly insert it in but not all the way yet. Spin itto the left till it
   stops. If it is not on 0 then take it out and reinsert it it all the way in directly at zero. I tested mine with a GPS when I was done to  make shure it was on point and found that it was reading right on in town and 4 over on the highway. The same as befor I started.
3. Now place the speedometer back into the iner housing and reinstal the four screws that hold it in the back.
4. place the black metal cover and the glass back over the speedo face.(I cleaned the glass with rain x anti fog
   just incase any moisture were to get in it wont fog up on me.
5. put the top beauty ring back on and press slightly hard so that you can get the tabs all the way down and bend
   them back down so as to hold the ring on tight to get a good seal on the glass.
6. Now reinstal the outer housing and the four screws that hold it on from the back.
7. Reinstal the speedometer the same way you took it off of the bike and your done.
8. after i did the speed check to ensure that I got the needle back on correctly I took the outer housing back off
   and put a small layer of black silicone around the bottom of the part that was cutt off just to prevent
   moisture.

If you have any questions or need help on this mod feel free to PM me if needed.

Sorry I did not take pics on reasembly as the wife took the camera to a birthay party when I put it back together but you should be able to get it .
 

ARMYSTAR .... you have big Cojones to take on the R&R of the speedometer gauge face and i say that with admiration

Excellent technical write-up and photos too .... especially like the needle extraction tool .... very clever

AlanH:

ARMYSTAR .... you have big Cojones to take on the R&R of the speedometer gauge face and i say that with admiration

Excellent technical write-up and photos too .... especially like the needle extraction tool .... very clever

+1, where did you get the new gauge face?

Not to intrude (seriously just being helpful) I got his email address from ArmyStar and so I don't know if the 'face-painter' wants it posted (I've asked him).  Therefore I PM'd his email address to you.  ArmyStar, do you think this is a good way to handle this?

DOH!  The website is in the first post and I guess I skipped over it, BIG HOMER DOH!

http://www.stargis.net/webslinger/Images/Speedo/index.htm

Here's the original topic: http://rswarrior.com/forums/p/117284/950836.aspx#950836

mentalcase:

  +1, where did you get the new gauge face?

AlanH:

ARMYSTAR .... you have big Cojones to take on the R&R of the speedometer gauge face and i say that with admiration

Excellent technical write-up and photos too .... especially like the needle extraction tool .... very clever

Love it. 

They both look great.Great write up.

Way cool! the write up is much appreciated.

Man those things look sick.  I would like to do that mod but it makes me a bit nervous.  But then again, all the mods make me nervous.  Hmmm.

This forum really needs a spell check feature.  Armystars directions for this mod are excellent, but his spelling is horrible.  He spells everything exactly how it sounds.  It makes him look like he has a 4th grade education.  Seriously, how do you graduate high school with spelling like that?

hmmmmm....Einstein apparently couldn't spell either. Seems like there may be some inverse relationship between genius and ability to spell.

Scoper50:

Seriously, how do you graduate high school with spelling like that?

SPELL CHECK I graduated in 2003 so we had MS word and I used the hell out of it I have always sucked at spelling.

Man, whats wrong with his spelling?
You under stood him didnt you ?
The guy may have  horrible spelling problems yet,
who's perfect? I'm  not .I sure would like to know were he got the speedo face cover?
Thats cool. Hell, I quiet school. Due to  family *** happening. I finished school at night and got the G.E.D.
And got my own place and got away from all the bitchin 24/7,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Im no weres around a type writer or anything like that my self. Being a Fine art welder/designer/ craftmans/ I  dont spell *** right either
all the time.  And when you use your brains & hands and eyse ,,,,,,,.
Some times your  eyes dont pick up mistakes .on a ,PC etc,,,,,.......Its  a  known fact, others pick up on others mistakes faster than who ever makes them  first.  One person may know grammer,,,,,,,,,,,, yet, another  how to turn a wrench.
       As for me,my spelling sucks in too yet, I do love learning ., Spell checkers are a very nice thing! 
Turning a wrench or spelling?  Thanks for the info on the  "Speed O  meter, face