Oil light coming on occasionally

Hi All,

On another topic, three times now the oil light has on my bike (for
those who haven't read the previous post, YZF 600, 94 model with 110
000kms).

Two of the times it has happened up the same very steep hill at about
6000 rpm. Can't remember the third time.

The oil level is fine, there are no major oil leaks that I can tell,
tiny bit of oil on the cylinders but never been enough to drip on the
ground.

It's due for an oil and filter change.

Any ideas?



Cheers

Lionel.

 

Souneds liuke an oil pump problem, blocked or something
Could be the result of a faulty pump when you go up that steep hill and
isn't picking the oil up

 

It would behoove you to find out if it's an oil-pressure or oil-level light.
P'raps you're running too heavy oil (i.e. too high viscosity index
number). That can cause trouble.

 

XJ900s do.
2004 YZF600s seem to also:
http://www.bikebandit.com/houseofmotorcycles/2004-yamaha-motorcycle-yzf600rs-yzf600/o/m8995
(Note item 9 "OIL LEVEL GAUGE")

 

Given you've made the word up I guess it can mean what ever you would
like it to...

Correct word (based on context) below

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/behove?view=uk

JL

 

Technically *Americans* made it up; I just copied it,
but thanks for the correction.

 

depends where you are from.

oxford compendium.
behove // v.tr. (US behoove //) (prec. by it as subject; foll. by to +
infin.) formal
1 be incumbent on.
2 (usu. with neg.) befit (ill behoves him to protest).
[Old English behofian from behof: see behoof]

Although in an australian group it would be better to speak English not
American,but we still understand them.

 

It comes from old english an the Americans would have changed it as they
do with all the other english they have changed.

 

Yes this is an irksome truth.
As much as we like to think the Yanks are the illiterate ones it's
actually the Poms who made all the changes and made the spelling of
words less phonetic.

 

FZ1 does - it is recommended to slightly overfill the oil to prevent
being bothered by it

 

I believe English is the only language in which the word phonetic does
not start with an "F" and finish with a "K".

Theo

 

phonetic is the word why should it start and finish with anything else?

 

Of course. Why should it be fonetik.

Theo

 

It isn't in French & 'phonetique' is one of the probable origins, at least
several centuries ago. Cheers

 

Anglicised word goes back to at least the 10th-12th century A.D. Both
forms (behove, behoove) appear in English texts. The earler behoif
overlaps.

Two things to take into account:

1/ English spelling was largely at the whim of the scribe until well into
the 17th century at least; e.g.: Shakespeare's name appears in some
strange variations, including 'Shagspeen' and

2/ many American words that are blamed on Webster & his dictionary, can
possibly be traced all the way back to an old English spelling that
emigrated with the Pilgrim Fathers and remained in use in law, commerce
and the Church.

In a similar way, a lot (far from all) of our Australian vernacular has
its origins in our convict and later multinational past. Things are very
slow to change when it takes months to go to or from a foreign country.
Cheers