oil light

estranged · Aug 29, 2012

Anyone tell me when the oil light on the dash is meant to come on?
Think I put too much oil in the other day. Bike runs ok until it warms up then acts like it's out of fuel when pulling away and ticking over. Once moving it seems ok.
Drained the oil last night, puut the right ammount back in, fired up, ran for about 10 minutes temp was low 70's then just cut out.
Oh, plus there was a quite a few metal shavings in the oil that I had drained out.

Kiwi_rsvr · Aug 29, 2012

Metal shavings = bad (Depending on what type of metal shavings they were)

Oil light will come on when level is too low, check that you havn't filled the airbox up the excess, it gets blown out of a breather pipe and into the airbox.

I hope you didnt put too much in as you could hydraulic lock the motor = very bad

Tifa1 · Aug 29, 2012

How much was too much oil?
Milage & year?

I'd be really concerned about the shavings in the oil and would want to sort that first.
What colour is the metal? Bronze? Steel? Aluminium?
Providing it's not catastropic, drop all the oil and refill with the cheapest oil you can get your hands on. Run it for a few minutes, then drop that oil too. Repeat until you're fairly sure you've got it all.

estranged · Aug 29, 2012

Kiwi_rsvr said:
Metal shavings = bad (Depending on what type of metal shavings they were)

Oil light will come on when level is too low, check that you havn't filled the airbox up the excess, it gets blown out of a breather pipe and into the airbox.

I hope you didnt put too much in as you could hydraulic lock the motor = very bad

Oil shouldn't be low as I draind well over 3 litres out of it yesterday, topped up with half a litre the other day when warm there was no oil in the min/max tube.
Some oil in airbox, but mega ammount. None in the little airbox tube thingy.

Something I forgot to mention. When pulling away from a standstill (with a wam engine, ok when "cold") it's really jerky and sounds like it's misfiring. So whatever that could mean

estranged · Aug 29, 2012

Tifa said:
How much was too much oil?
Milage & year?

I'd be really concerned about the shavings in the oil and would want to sort that first.
What colour is the metal? Bronze? Steel? Aluminium?
Providing it's not catastropic, drop all the oil and refill with the cheapest oil you can get your hands on. Run it for a few minutes, then drop that oil too. Repeat until you're fairly sure you've got it all.

I know I shouldn't have put the oil back in, but I just wanted to see if it still did it with the right ammount back in. Put 3 litres back in and still got probably about another litre or so left over.
Metal shavings are silver. Dunno what they are though.
Will drain the oil again tomorrow and see if anything else coems out.

Paul Ali · Aug 29, 2012

I wouldnt have thought the oil level would affect the performance of the bike, too little bike engine overheats and siezes and too much then hydraulic lock, but other than that oil level wont cause the bike too misfire or cut out surely.

The metal filings are worrying.

Did the issues start immediately after you topped up the oil ?? Perhaps check the air filter itself isnt clogged with oil and restricting combustion air...

estranged · Aug 29, 2012

Paul Ali said:
I wouldnt have thought the oil level would affect the performance of the bike, too little bike engine overheats and siezes and too much then hydraulic lock, but other than that oil level wont cause the bike too misfire or cut out surely.

The metal filings are worrying.

Did the issues start immediately after you topped up the oil ?? Perhaps check the air filter itself isnt clogged with oil and restricting combustion air...

Yeah, started after I topped up with the oil. Had a look in airbox earlier, filter seems pretty good, not soaked in oil or anything

eddievtwin 7 · Aug 29, 2012

Just one question why do you ask about the oil light and when it should come on and off is it coming on ?? , it should go off after a second or so from starting , some times the pressure switchs play up ( clutch side of engine bottom front ) easy cheap fix.
The cutting out sounds more electrical to me as electrics are prone to playing up under high temps , could be a number of things , my thoughts are the crank sensor maybe

Eddie

estranged · Aug 29, 2012

eddievtwin 7 said:
Just one question why do you ask about the oil light and when it should come on and off is it coming on ?? , it should go off after a second or so from starting , some times the pressure switchs play up ( clutch side of engine bottom front ) easy cheap fix.
The cutting out sounds more electrical to me as electrics are prone to playing up under high temps , could be a number of things , my thoughts are the crank sensor maybe

Eddie

Because it comes on after the engine has been running. Starts off really dim then gets brighter

fusebox · Aug 29, 2012

seriously buddy its doesnt sound good this one.....

cold you give me a call at the shop as soon as and ill talk you through a few things?

01827 285500

Griff

Kiwi_rsvr · Aug 29, 2012

Id follow the one armed Jaffa munching Lord of Aprilias' advice

irate

gregorious77 · Aug 31, 2012

yeah sounds like a main bearing/oil pump failure!!!

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