| Author | Message | ||
     Jreinke |
I was wondering if you guys and girls can help me out here. I have a 2002 Buell Lighting X1. I was riding to work today with no problems. When I got out of work on my way home the oil light came on. It seems to come on in third gear and fifth gear and starts to hesitate and run like crap. This is at a steady speed going down the highway/county roads. I checked the oil and it was between the lines. Any ideas or information would be helpful. Thanks in advance. | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
Just a hunch but I'd do a load test on the battery, and check the output of your charging system. Electrical issues can cause some strange symptoms, so your oil light may not be oil related at all. Check the wire and connector on the oil pressure sensor as well. If you don't find any electrical issues, be careful riding it as you may actually have an oil pressure issue. You can check the oil pump drive gear which is well known to fail in these bikes. To check it, you'll need to remove the cam cover and look at it (you must remove one rocker box and put the other piston at top dead center before removing the cam cover) You could probably take a look at the OPDG just by removing the oil pump, but IMO it would be easier to just go ahead and remove the cam cover - even if that's not the issue you should upgrade to the bronze gear from American Sport Bike for better reliability. | ||
| Kyrocket |
I concur with what PK said. My first hunch was electrical as I was reading the diagnosis. I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage. | ||
| Pkforbes87 |
"I'm not a mechanic but I play one in my garage." HA! That belongs on a bumper sticker. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Sounds like a grounding issue to me. Check that big fat braid that goes to the engine on the left. (not to mention the battery terminals) | ||
| Jreinke |
I checked the battery terminals and the positive was a little loose. As far as the fat braid of wires what am i looking for exactly? I have to wait to get a battery tester from my grandpa. How do you check the output of the charging system? Hopefully it was just the loose positive on the battery. *crosses fingers* | ||
| Kalali |
I would ride and see if the loose cable was you culprit before playing with anything else. If you fix a few items all in one shot you will never know which one was the source of your problem. At least that's my troubleshooting approach. Everybody has his/her own method. Keep us posted. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
The "fat braid" is just the ground strap that goes to the engine case. I might be completely wrong about where it is on the bike though  Follow the negative battery cable down to where it goes to the engine. Make sure it's good there. The easiest way to check your charging system is to measure the battery voltage while the bike is running. If it's above 13.5V, you're pretty much good to go. The voltage will go up a bit when you rev it to 2500RPM too. If you see the battery voltage dropping while the engine is running, something bad is happening. | ||
| Texastechx1 |
pull your gas tank (damn easy to do) and check that big hunk of wiring that runs between the top of the engine and the bottom of the gas tank... many things can rub through the insulation of your wiring and can cause MANY odd electrical problems. | ||
| Buellistic |
When the ELECTRONIC "MYSTERIES" start on the Fuel Injection Models it means "GET A NEW BATTERY" as a rule ... "BUT" bad battery connections will also make some "MYSTERIES" also !!! |
