1150 just got (carol nash) recovered home :-((

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hughguzzi

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10 miles from home and oil light comes on pull over and stop within a minute (dodgy road) - oil was just at bottom of sight glass so wife ran me out some oil - topped it up but light wont go out :( so recovered home through carol nash (-> AA -> local garage who turned out to be a biker too )
Bike sounds fine (briefly !!) and was running fine .......
Any ideas as to why the light might be not going out ? I know there are a few obvious things I could check like connections and sensor but has this happened to anyone else ?
If its the oil pump would that fail so quickly and is it a big job to replace ?:nenau
Cheers
 
As above, the oil pressure switch can play up on some bikes.

Get that sorted before running though!
 
Cheers, Its a reet bastid because I was feeling pleased with misself for stripping down and cleaning up the starter motor yesterday - lovely now, and re-packing the cobra exhaust with fresh stainless wire wool and fibreglass wadding (from PJ Engineering) so nicenquiet, out for a ride to go see mother and blinkin breakdown :blast
Serves me right for doing some work on it.
..........but didnt check the oil :blast:blast:blast
 
Was it wet, or did you go through any bigish puddles before the light came on? It's easy to bridge out the connections and the light comes on......half an hour of running and it dries out...after fording, I used to ignore it as a matter of course.

The oil level was at the bottom of the window......measured normally or over on the sidestand?
 
Oil light

Pull the lead off the o/p switch and start the bike if it won't go out means you've got a fault to earth on the lead, probably where it goes under the left pot. There is a cover here guiding the wire away from the pot mine went here and this has come up before.
 
hughguzzi said:
Cheers, Its a reet bastid because I was feeling pleased with misself for stripping down and cleaning up the starter motor yesterday - lovely now, and re-packing the cobra exhaust with fresh stainless wire wool and fibreglass wadding (from PJ Engineering) so nicenquiet, out for a ride to go see mother and blinkin breakdown :blast
Serves me right for doing some work on it.
..........but didnt check the oil :blast:blast:blast
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any chance you trapped a wire when you replaced the starter ?
 
Thanks folks - some good suggestions - I will check the spade connector / earth, and if I trapped the wire re-fitting the starter. No wet or puddles either, not sure why oil got that low - check it quite regularly after being on side stand for at least a few minutes, then on main stand to check the level. ( and its 20/50 :D)
Occasionally get a bit of smoke after being on sidestand but that's erratic and I believe common ?
burns usually about 1/3 lt 1000 miles ? (bikes done 56000)
 
hughguzzi said:
..........but didnt check the oil
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You said you could see oil in the bottom of the sight glass. That means you have more than enough oil.
Plus the oil light doesn't measure oil level, it measures oil pressure.

If the engine noise is the same as it always is then you have the usual oil light problem, which is the pressure switch.
 
Great news !!! fixed it !!!
Thanks all for your suggestions, it turns out I had trapped the wire to the oil pressure sensor when refitting the starter motor:blast (well done kennyc!) It must have taken a few miles to heat up (soften) and short to earth so the light came on. Repaired the wire and covered with shrink tubing - oil light goes out now as soon as started as before. What a twat - but a relief its not serious :comfort
Cheers :beerjug:
(sadly now cant convince the missus I need a new bike :rolleyes:)
 
hughguzzi said:
Great news !!! fixed it !!!
Thanks all for your suggestions, it turns out I had trapped the wire to the oil pressure sensor when refitting the starter motor:blast (well done kennyc!) It must have taken a few miles to heat up (soften) and short to earth so the light came on. Repaired the wire and covered with shrink tubing - oil light goes out now as soon as started as before. What a twat - but a relief its not serious :comfort
Cheers :beerjug:
(sadly now cant convince the missus I need a new bike :rolleyes:)
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I'm amazed the breakdown man didn't work this out within 30 seconds of pulling up.
 
Yeah I suppose I could have worked it out too and fixed by the side of the road had I clicked what it 'could' have been and knowing what I do now - but because the oil was a bit low the assumption was lubrication related and only 10 miles from home - so I said to him it was easier to get it home and sort out in the luxury of a warm well lit garage (sunday evening -getting dark - drizzling) :blagblah:blagblah
 
hughguzzi said:
Great news !!! fixed it !!!
Thanks all for your suggestions, it turns out I had trapped the wire to the oil pressure sensor when refitting the starter motor
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I was taught as an apprentice that when strange things happen after doing some work always look at the last thing you worked on. That advice has served me well many a time :rob
 
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