1989 Kama 600 Ninja oil light has been on since an oil change several
thousand miles back.- Does anyone know how to make it go off now?

Kawa

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> 1989 Kama 600 Ninja oil light has been on since an oil change several
> thousand miles back.- Does anyone know how to make it go off now?
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> 1989 Kama 600 Ninja oil light has been on since an oil change several
> thousand miles back.- Does anyone know how to make it go off now?

It is either your oil pressure switch that is no good anymore, or....you
have a short in your system somewhere....I had a similar problem with my jap
bike a while back and it turned out to be the rear brake light ground wire
wasn't making good contact.
It took a while for me to track it down and it bugged the hell out of
me. I was about to just take the light bulb out of its socket and by
chance, I found it....soooo...
I would check your fround wiring if it isn't the switch...

Good Luck..

Fwed

Cobra wrote:
> 1989 Kama 600 Ninja oil light has been on since an oil change several
> thousand miles back.- Does anyone know how to make it go off now?

Pull the wire off the switch. If the light goes out, the switch may be
the problem, or the oil passage to the switch to the switch may be
plugged up.

If the light stays on with the wire pulled off if it, you have a wiring
problem somewhere.

Unscrew the switch and put a rag over the hole to catch any oil that
comes out the hole when you crank the engine with the starter.

As I recall, a Kawasaki will crank with the kill switch in the off
position, but, it doesn't matter if that's not true. If the engine
starts, shut it off imediately so the oil doesn't squirt all over the
place.

Squirt some aerosol carburetor cleaner into the hole in the switch.
Turn it upside down to drain the carburetor cleaner out.

Then, carefully screw the pressure switch back into the hole, hook up
the wire and start the engine and see if the light goes out. If it
doesn't, the switch is probably bad.

You can use an ohmmeter to check the contacts of the switch. You should
get a very low reading from the body of the switch to the terminal.
Applying oil pressure to the oil port should make the contacts open,
giving you a very high reading of 500K ohms or more.

Cobra wrote:
> 1989 Kama 600 Ninja oil light has been on since an oil change several
> thousand miles back.- Does anyone know how to make it go off now?

If it happened right after the oil change it might actually be trying
to tell you about impending doom. It could be a broken sender
or a short, but on some bikes at least might also be a warning of
an incorrectly installed oil filter.

Assuming the sender makes a connection to ground, you could
check for a short by disconnecting the wires from the sender.
If the light stays on, that would indicate a short. If the light went
out when I disconnected the wires, I'd swap the sender. If the
light stayed lit with a new sender, I'd make really, really sure
I had the filter installed correctly.