89 vr dash

[Pro procrastinator]

I am finally getting around to a project bike that has been sitting in the shed for a while it is a 89 venture royale that i bought in pieces and am slowly rebuilding. I want to strip the fairing off of the front and make it look more like a rstd with hooded headlight/driving lights and clear windshield. I have an old tank off a kawasaki something that i am gutting and widening to cover the battery and airbox and intend to mount gauges in it. My question is has anyone tried to separate the lcd displays from the rest of the gauge cluster?

I havent traced the back of the circut board yet and wasnt sure how tied in each of the instruments were. Could i separate them, hide the board under the tank, and run jumper wires to each connection? Lots of work but it is winter. Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated. Thanks

[saddlebum]

Should be no problem all the wiring is accessible. You should be able to cut the center section of the dash out for the display and using some flat sheets of the black inner  fairing and plastifix/plastex build a nice neat mount for it.

[Pro procrastinator]

Thanks for the reply i haven't had as much time to devote to this thing as i was expecting but hopefully i can start sorting out wires and seeing where things will end up.  Kinda wondering if i'll run out of room to hide the cruise actuator and air ride controls yet. Im thinking i can only stretch out that tank so far to cover everything. 

[Pro procrastinator]

Was looking through some articles at the hotrod web site and came across one about building a vacuum bed for forming one off parts. Might be an idea for replacing the plastics on these older (more mature) bikes

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/build-vacuum-forming-mold-make-plastic-parts/

Edited February 1, 2021 by Pro procrastinator