Another One For The "DUH" File

[Mad Powersports]

Ever since the first ride this year I can wheel the Vmax around to the left just fine, nice tight turn. But to the right, I need 40 acres. Ok maybe only thirty.

I checked linkage, measured to make sure everthing is equal fom side to side and all is perfect. I went through this scenerio many times. Pulled the bars not once but maybe 5 times. Looked at the flat on the downtube and it was perpendicular to the shaft. WTF?

At tustin at the end of the first run I grabbed a handful of throttle in the deep snow, she fishtailed and I had to crank the bars to the right. Quite hard. Came past the chalkboard and seen the oil light was one. Geez, now what out of oil? Got back to the van and checked it out, nope 3/4 full. Ok maybe the sensor took a sheet.

Well I took a looky see tongiht as I added a shim to the primary and was going to check the resistance on the sender. Well I found one problem that will fix two issues. The reason it would turn to the right is because the white oil sender connector must have bounced around and was laying on the right hand side of the steering shaft where the steering stop is. All this time that was what was making it not turn short enough to the right. Well when she fishtailed and I cranked the bars to the right I smashed the connector. Thus making the connection and turning the light on.

I'm quite anal about paying attention to detail and somehow when I reassembled it that one slipped by.

:beathead: DUH!!! I guess this could also fall in the KISS file. Don't go chasing your tail or looking for something intricate when the real problem is starin' ya in the face.

[racerrob]

As they say...SHEET happens...but..on the oil light thing..

While yours was broke, the oil light does seem to come on quite early. I had it come on last year in the middle of a ride & I almost went into panic mode as we were 30 miles from the trailer etc. Turns out, it is a real EARLY warning light from what I can tell.

Rob

[mjdevries]

You didn't get the gist of his Mad P's post. He crushed the connecter and exposed the wire for the oil sensor. Once exposed all it needs to do is ground out and the light will come on. So he managed to find the cause of both problems.

I had a similar issue. The light would come on when I started the sled, but if lifted the hood it would go out when I got to a certain point and come on when I closed the hood. I ended up finding the wire harness was getting pinched in the hood hinge. When I opened the hood it would lose contact, when I closed it, the wire would get pinched. On mine though it started out as the temperature light, and then as I tried to figure it out it progressed to the Oil light after it cut through the water temp wire.

[AL P]

LOL...glad ya get er fixed..

<an, if I started posting all the dumb things I`ve over looked/screwed up over the years, I`d be laughed right off the site..

but on an unrelated machine....my motorcycle..I`ll throw a quick one out there..

long story short..
I lead a pack of other bikes to a bike gig...got to the gate, shut down the bike..paid my way in...then bike would`nt start..was dead....could`nt figure out WTF??
finaly pushed it out of the way of the rest of the bikes...pulled the points cover..everything was fine, statrted pulling the seat to check batt connections, then happen to notice/remember that I had hit my kill switch.....after spending about 20+ minutes working on it, as bikes passed me by entering...

felt a bit silly..

Then.....about a week later..i was in another town, at yet another bike gig...no longer got there after riding a couple hundred miles, and decided to leave and make a run to town...got about 5 miles down the road...and my bike just shut right down...
so there I was, on the side of the road...bikes steady slowing down and asking if everything is ok, me saying ohh yeah (not really having a clue whats going on)...only to once again, realize, I had accidently, hit my kill switch...my hand was getting tired of being wrapped around the throttle, so I was riding with my hand kinda resting on top of it....aparently, I bumped the kill switch....again.....LOL

[Mad Powersports]

Ok... Now I don't feel so bad.

[mjdevries]

That kill switch will get you all the time... Not sure how many times I pulled and pulled on a recoil and then realized the kill switch was in the off position.

[Mad Powersports]

That kill switch will get you all the time... Not sure how many times I pulled and pulled on a recoil and then realized the kill switch was in the off position.

I see a lot of people use it to shut off their sled instead of using the key.

To be honest I don't use it that way. I let my buddy ride my sled the other day and thats how he shuts his off (and mine too when he got back) and I went to start it, geez pulled three times and no start. Then I seen he had the kill switch depressed. :bash1:

[CaptJager]

I had a problem with hitting the kill switch while racing so disconnected it on my 92... No more problems