I purchased Dorable in July of 2025 with 2200 miles on her clock. She is a 2021 and am enjoying her companionship greatly on the twisties and trails up till the current 6300 miles. At the end of season the backlight of the LCD in the speedo started flickering and the dash was buzzing terribly. I put it to the back of my mind as a winter project.

Well, it is now winter and there is not much chance of needing a instrument cluster.

There are plenty of YT videos showing how to remove the dash from the bike and how to disassemble, so wont use up any bits showing that.

Upon taking it apart, I found white plastic dust all over the inside of the housing.

and all of the pieces from the threaded points of the LCD mount

I tack welded the bits back into place with a soldering iron, and each hole will accept its screw

the circuit board that holds the LEDs for the LCD backlight was tricky to extract from the housing, involving much careful desoldering, prying and cussing.

The LED pair are run in parallel at 5V. And the trace that feeds them is only about 10 thousandths of a inch wide. After the screw holes came apart, all that was supporting the entire assembly was the legs of the LED board and the tiny traces.

Little copper foils can not take the vibrating nightmare that is a big single piston bike motor. I have seen pix of the solder at the base of the board vibrating it self apart (this is most assuredly that terrible PB free solder the manufacturers are forced to use). But this failure was of the tiny foil being wiggled to death

I am going to tack some 32ga hook up wire from the big sturdy joint at the bottom to the appropriate points on the board.

To try and keep things stable, as I can see no way to rebuild those screw stands, I will cushion stabilize them with electronic grade silastic, and also use that at all the points of vibration damage.

I will post more when we get that far

The RTV and the Do Not Eat packs have arrived