Thread: Quad speedo glass - repair how?

Speedo off a 96 honda big red
Anyone know how to replace glass? Looks pressed on by a ring or some shit

The ring is known as a bezel, really need the right tooling to do the job. Parrots in Chch are the experts https://www.eparrott.co.nz/

It’s super easy to pull apart and change out the glass

The bezel is usually light gauge aluminium and easy to displace. Pick away at the crimped skirt (underside) of the bezel with a fine bladed screwdriver or a kitchen knife and twist out from the speedo body to loosen it. You probably won't have to go all the way around, only half or so and then it can be lifted slightly and slid off. There will prolly be a thin o-ring between the glass and the body. When you've replaced the glass with something clear-ish, press the bezel back on and push the skirt back down against the body with a flat tool.

Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

It’s super easy to pull apart and change out the glass

With a hammer?

Try wish? Aliexpress. The bike wreckers for a 2nd hand one? Or get a gps boat speedo......

Glad Wrap

#AlisonHolst

Yeh I see what you meen @Gibo, I have the same unit in my workshop in good order but to get past that outer ring is going to be a bitch.

If it was me I would just make a cut with the angle grinder fitted with the finest cutting wheel and just pop that outer ring off with screw driver easy as.
Get the glass cutter to cut circle glass to size,, replace then refit outer ring and wrap up with insulation tape.
Not perfect I know, but tidy enough and sealed from the elements, and better than throwing away.

Originally Posted by berg243

still makes me chuckle that a honda quad needs a speedo . mind you it is an optimistic one , top speed 30km/h .

My old 300 Suzuki has one that tops 80KM/H, but then...it's not a Honda.

I dont need the speedo, it does have an hour metre. I just thought why not keep it original.....will talk to my screwdriver later, it cant get any worserer

Originally Posted by Mauser308

Cut a piece of optical perspex or clear polycarb sheet. Get an offcut from a plastics place, cheap as chips and won't ever break like that again.

Yeah, go polycarbonate as a preference. It's the stuff the use for boat windows when they don't want them to break.

There's probably a zillion outfits up and down New Zealand but I have had excellent service from Cebelio in Christchurch.
They cut replacement meter board windows to drawing for me.

www.cebelio.co.nz

There's probably a zillion outfits up and down New Zealand but I have had excellent service from Cebelio in Christchurch.
They cut replacement meter board windows to drawing for me. All done via email.

The small size of the order didn't seem to worry them.

www.cebelio.co.nz

I have got my mitts on some 1mm polycarbonate and will install later today, all up cost of home repair = $0 thanks to a nice bloke at BOP Plastics