My mates got a K3 thou. On the ride today the oil light starting to come on & the bike was misfiring. The light started flashing faster, then slow. Turned it off & back on again fine. Oil levels fine. Any ideas? -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
No, he's not into cleaning it. ISTR it's a pressure light. I reckon it's prolly a sebsor gone tits up, but the misfire? -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
You don't have a sensor as such for oil pressure lights: just a simple old pressure switch. Quite possibly unrelated. I dunno. Unless Suzuki have built some clever electronics in which cuts the engine the moment the oil light comes on, to prevent damage. That wouldn't surprise me. If it does it again, tell him to stick another oil pressure switch on it. If it doesn't, no worries.
My 600 did that a couple years back on a track day - turns out if you overrev it, the bike goes into a maintenance mode [1]. You have to stop, turn off the ignition and then back on to reset it. [1] Probably not called that, but you get my drift. -- Gavin. For the road: GSXR600K1 For the track: <gone> For everything else: Citroën Berlingo MSN: Twitter: http://twitter.com/gavin_wilby
It's done it a few times. Odd that if you turn the bike off then on again it'f fine for ages. Can't be a fucked oil pump or engine wear as that would be more obvious. You might be right about the OPS. He's good with a spanner, i'll tell him to change it. BTW, the Aprilia is a fucking lovely handling bike. I'm used to the BMW thats about as quick to turn in as a raver on 10 e's. I found myself taking lines i would have on the beemer & correcting like ****. It just wants to dive into the corners & **** off quick out of em. -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
Nice one Gav, ta. He does give it the main cane -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
IIRC, on my V-Strom, the light is a general trouble light. It covers oil, temp and FI. It may be the same for all Suzukis.
The ability to make 10 steering corrections in a 90 degree right hander had me laughing like ****. the handling is just uber good. It can lift the front after 4k for fun -- Nige, Honda VTR1000 SOLD! BMW K1200S Range Rover Vogue Aprilia RSV Mille
