Yamaha Ownership Lesson 1

A friend of mine used to have a Quota and his had the same appetite.
Might it be possible to use a generic part rather than the shit
that the Guzzi purchase managers uncle (or his cousin?) sells?

 

Yeah. I did consider looking in Halfords, specifically at those parts
used on Fiats. I also have an oil pressure gauge, but mounting it
would involve cutting holes, which I'm loathe to do. I was also
worried as to what would happen if the capilliary were to fracture...

 

So, lets see
http://www.yamaha-motor.com/assets/service/manuals/2004/lit-11626-17-55_941.pdf
Page 4 is full of the standard warnings
Then on Page 3-2 is all the information, including a picture of the
instruments for the hard of thinking and a paragraph for the less cerebally
challenged.
This is precisely *why* one gets a user handbook. 10/15 minutes of light
reading or a fucked engine? Tricky choice.

Perhaps less playing , more reading.

Even if it is too much trouble to read the manual, IMO anyone who fails to
check the sight glass before a long trip is ...... you fill it in, you seem
to know everything else.

 

I think you're taking this too seriously, and anyway that's the wrong
manual.

Except that wasn't the choice. All I did was mistake the oil level
light for an oil pressure light.

Actually I did check the oil level before I set off, as I do at regular
intervals. Like I said, it seems it's probably just a knackered
sensor/relay.

 

They're not warnings, they're reasons to buy.

 

My T3 gets through them at quite a rate too. I use cheapy pattern parts
for a Peugeot.

As others have said it's a bit pointless as it simply tells you your
engine is now toast. I've got the charge light to tell me I've left the
ignition on.

 

It doesn't seem to make any difference if you do, IME.

 

Modern ones tend to be electric.

 

sweller says...

On RD200s the charge light is known as the seize light. It only comes on
in normal use when the engine has seized.

 

My 'old' Megane did (from 2005).

 

^^^

Here, have a "not"

 

Dave's Modus has one - 2005 cage. He never bothers checking the oil as a
result, which I think is not sensible. But then, I had an Avensis which had
a catastrophic engine failure.....

Ali

 

The Fuglypla has the same. As did the Citroën XM, from 1990.

 

This one ain't modern. I had originally fitted it to my old Austin
1100.

 

My charge light only comes on when it feels like it. On both the
recent occasions that the alternator has fried itself, the only
warning I got was the tacho needle drooping, followed by the
indicators going too dim to see.

I'm impressed that the FI kept going after these symptoms appeared.

 

It did? Mine never came on - unlike the hydraulics warnings which used
to come on all the time..

Especially when our XM rear ride-height adjuster disintegrated and
dumped the fluid all over the road - from full to zero in about 5
seconds.

Driving a car with no suspension, no brakes other than the
parking-brake and no power assist on the steering was.. interesting.

In a "this car needs an enema" style of interesting.

Phil

 

Asking for trouble then, fitting an ancient capilliary gauge to a bike.

Much better to go electric - the electric OP sensors are reasonably
small and light nowadays.

 

Well like I said, I don't want to cut mounting holes, so it's
academic.

 

There was something like a gauge which would show oil level when the
ignition was turned on, then dropped to zero or had another function (poss
temp) when the engine started. It might not have been on all models, and I
no longer have the reference. I was never crazy enough to actually buy an
XM.

Heh. Done that on a BX, more than once.