A job I had been putting off for a while involved pulling the instrument panel off again. It involves fiddling around behind the headlamp, a particularly inaccessible area, and removing the handlebar clamp. It had to be done though, the indicator relay bracket was threatening to fret through some wires and the ammeter was popping out - not to mention the fact that I couldn't get the screws in to fasten the thing to the nacelle.
One of the problems with removing the dashboard is that you have to lift the handlebar clamp completely off. This is because the dashboard has been repaired where it sits under the handlebar clamp, and the slots are not really the right shape. One in particular fouls the stud in the handlebar clamp:
I marked the offending area on a bit of masking tape:
A few minutes with a file sorted that out, and now the clamp fits much more smoothly. You still have to lift it to remove the dashboard though.
The main job was to move the indicator relay. In a previous incarnation, I had it fitted under the rearmost speedometer nut and it was preventing me getting my hand in to fit the speedometer cable and to reconnect the wires to the headlamp switch.
What I've done today is make a new bracket for the indicator relay so that it's mounted under the ammeter in a corner of the nacelle that's out of the way:
I can get my hand underneath the dashboard now to reconnect all the wires and the speedometer cable. I made the main battery feed cable quite long when I built the wiring harness and this helps to reconnect it to the ammeter when you are fitting the dashboard.
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