Remove Push Pin with philips head screwdriver from the rear storage compartment

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Remove Push pin from plastic tray (just behind battery)

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Disconnect all wires and wire harnesses *this is what it should look like before you pull anything out

Pull your tail light, turn signal and plate light wires out of the way and remove this black box by simply pulling up on it ( it's held in place by a rubber grommett)

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Remove wire harness from this white box

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Pull back all wires and remove this fuse box. * held in by a clip *

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Remove this small red and white fuse box

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Take out the little silver peice here, by removing the bolt that holds it down *this holds the plastic tray in*

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Pull all wires back and remove plastic tray

Remove three bolts in the tail with 5 mm allen wrench * holding on the license plate bracket if you still have it on the bike *

Looks like this with no bolts

Remove silver screws * in center of pic, one on each side * from under the subframe with a phillips head screw driver. You WILL have to push the undertail piece of plastic to the side a little bit to get at the screw. It's also very easy to drop this screw so be careful not to drop it.

Remove two silver screws from stock tail light peice (sorry bad pic)

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Pull out the black bracket. *I had to pry down a little on the undertail fairing to pull this bracket out*

Remove the rubber cover from the stock tail light (sorry bad pic)

Pull out stock tail light housing * I had to twist and turn and manipulate mine just to get it out *

 

Pictures are going to be the same as the ones coming out, so they will look the same, but reverse....

Next you put the new tail light back into the tail fairing.

Put the rubber grommet back on top of the new tail light

Insert bracket back into the tail fariing and put the two screws back in the top.

Pic with no to screws

Top screws in place (one on each side)

Put the two sivler screws back in through the bracket, into the back of the new housing.

Reconnect your plate bracket with the three bolts (if you have it )

Place plastic tray back in

Put the silver peice of metal back into place by putting the bolt back in place

Reconnect all the wiring harnesses in the plastic tray

Put the push pin back into the bottom of the tray (right near this fuse harness)

Put the push pin back into the tray ( near the bolts that hold the license plate bracket on )

Place the aluminum bracket back on with the two black bolts

Put the two black plastic pieces back on by putting the four silver bolts back in .. * here * (one on each side)

Put the two black push pins back into the piece of aluminum ( to connect the fairing back on to the aluminum peice ) * Here*

And Here

Set your upper tail fairing on the seat of the bike

VERY CAREFULLY place the plastic spacer back into its place in the subframe, and set place the locking mechinism on top of it. NOTE: Be SUPER CAREFUL NOT TO KNOCK THAT PLASTIC SPACER OUT OF ITS PLACE. It's really easy to do ( i did it TWICE) and can be a real pain in the neck to find if it pops out of there)

Put the two bolts back into their holes to hold Locking mechanishm in place.

 

I had a hard time with the spring being all outta place when I put the locking mechanism back in. I had to use a pair of needle nose pliers to pry the spring back into its proper place. Here are a few detailed pictures to show you how the spring and mechanism should be properly placed.

Close up from the left side of the bike

Close up from the right side of the bike

Close up from IN the storage compartment toward the left side

Put your upper tail fairing back on the rear of the bike, and slide it down and back into place. * the opposite direction that I am pointing *

Put the black push pins back in the tail piece, * on the underside of the fairing, and above the exhaust * (here) Pic without push pin

With Push Pin

Put the push pins back into the top part of the tail fairing Here and here, without push pins

Here and here WITH push pins

Put the bolt back in to the top of the tail fairing

Put the push pins back in on the underside of the fairing

with out push pins

With push pins

Put the covers back over the exhaust ( if you have stock cans )

Put the drivers seat back on with the two bolts

Put the passesnger seat back on

Task Complete

This may not be the best write up ever, but the intention is to assist other people when they are installing an integreated tail light.

If there is anything that you guys think is wrong, ( or I have photos that are placed incorrectly ) please let me know about it, and I will do my best to update or change the problems.


Hope this helps someone else out.

 

Thanks for this thread! I plan on doing mine soon. Should be a sticky!

 

Nice write up man, sucks that there was one already made. Its just not showing up in the how to's anymore?? But i did find it when i searched.

O well, one of these should be a sticky atleast....

http://www.r1-forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=266303&highlight=09+R1+tail+light+install

 

but that one is not near as good as this one! this is STEP BY STEP. there were a few steps he said "do this/do that" without a pic or explaining.

 

Nice write up. Definitely a pain in the butt to get done but looks damn nice once it is done.

 

This is what I was looking for! Thank you so so much for this STEP by STEP presentation with each pic of what you were talking about and what screw or plastic pin you were removing. This is so much better than the other 'How To' install tail light. I was stuck in the middle of changing my light out following those steps. You picked me up where I was stuck at and brought me to light. Thanks once again for the EXCELLENT presentation!

 

Great write up...I hope to receive my tail light early next week and will be using this guide to help me install it quickly and properly.

 

Glad I could help some people out.

 

Excellent pics and write -up!

 

DAMN. where were you when I was installing my tail light ?

 

great, i just used it. anything on wiring the integrated tail light?

 

Hmmm. I guess I didn't include that part did I? Well, I'm thinking mine was plug and play, I'll have to double check that and update my posts.

Thanks for the advice bro. I'll update soon.

 

One thing when looking at this, it might be easier to not take the plastic tray out of the undertail. Its not that difficult to just remove the lower draft shield and the headlight comes out with it, just leave the plastic tray in and remove the lower with the tailight and change it there. My .02 cents after removing all fairings the other day.

 

Great write up. Can't wait to change mine out next week using these directions. I'm assuming the direction that come with the custom led blaster x is crap?

 

Doing this right now. Thanks for the writeup!

 

About to do mine tonight..

 

Anyone have the wiring data for the lights? My bike didn't come with the stock rear turn signals, so I don't know which wires are for what.

 

Rear left should be a brownish / red wire
Rear right should be a green wire

 

Awesome! Thanks man.

I wrapped it up yesterday and it works perfectly. The only thing I'm not crazy about is the fact that I had to look at all the missing hardware from my bike.

Anyone know where I can get a bag of the little push pin clips? I'd like them to be exactly what's already there.

 

You can order the stock plastic rivets from mrcycles.com.

How long did the tail light install take you? I didn't get a chance to get to mine last night. Hopefully I'll have the energy tonight after work to do it.

 

This is the greatest how to ever. Thanks pimp

 

Yep agreed. Fantastic. Tutorial. Never thought "what the heck is doing".........like some tuts. Great job bud

You're both very welcome, and thank you for the compliments. I'm just glad I could make it "easy" for you both to get it done.

 

Yep agreed. Fantastic. Tutorial. Never thought "what the heck is doing".........like some tuts. Great job bud

 

Thanks for that step by step. Will use it soon

 

You're welcome.

Going to use this tomorrow morning!
It's perfect when you ask google "How to install 2011 Yamaha r1 taillight" and you get something like THIS!

Thanks for pics.

Gotta love google. It sure does make things easy.

Glad I could make things easier for you.

 

Going to use this tomorrow morning!
It's perfect when you ask google "How to install 2011 Yamaha r1 taillight" and you get something like THIS!

Thanks for pics.

 

Thank you very much for this very detailed and through walk through of all the steps to install the integrated tail light. I followed these steps exactly for my 2013 R1 and it worked out brilliantly! Much appreciated.

 

You're welcome bro.

 

Great write up. It helped a lot. Thanks!

 

Thank you. And not a problem. Good to see this thread is still helping folks out.

 

the way how-to threads should be done, with lots of pictures