Instrument panel internal lights

[k547]

2003 K1200RS
I have completed both the high and low beam headlight bulb changes working mostly by feel. It would have been helpful to have an Elf or someone with very small hands to do this for me....
Now I am thinking about the illumination on the gear position indicator and clock which are next to each other in the lower right area of the instrument panel. The rest of my instrument lighting seems fine.
The clock is faintly illuminated and can be read at night with effort if there is no ambient light (streetlight, etc) nearby to overpower it and the gear position indicator is virtually unreadable except in total darkness when it is very faintly visible as being lighted.
If there are two bulbs for these two small side by side perhaps one of them is burned out or if there is only one bulb maybe it is dirty or has moved out of position.
The parts micro fiche shows something like 15 separate small bulbs in total.

I didn't find any posts regarding this with a couple of searches here.
Has anyone ever accessed these bulbs to clean or replace them?
Any how to do it suggestions?

 

[k547]

I removed the 2 small upper fairing pieces on the left and right side of the instrument panel that are sorta "under the handlebars" and removed the "nose cone" fairing.
Then I removed the 3 screws holding the headlight in place from the front (left, right and bottom center) and leaving all the wiring attached to the headlight moved it straight out the front of the bike to the limit of the attached wiring (about 2/3 to 3/4 of being completely clear of the bike) and taped it in place. This gave me lots of room to access the rear of the instrument panel from either side or from below. I wish I had known this when I changed the headlight bulbs earlier this week!

The hardest part was breaking the rubber plug that the bulb mounts in free from it's receptacle in the back of the instrument housing.
It had "stuck" in place the way rubber spark plug caps will do if installed dry and left in place for a long time or rubber handgrips on a handle bar. I finally had to take a syringe with a needle and put a couple drops of 91% rubbing alcohol in between the rubber plug and it's mount in the plastic instrument housing and that instantly freed it. Same method I use removing/installing rubber hand grips.
A smear of silicone grease will make it easy to remove next time.

Would have been nice to change out all the backlight bulbs at once but all I had on hand were 2003 bulbs taken from another bike. I'm waiting for the new bulbs to arrive from Bob's.