Triumphrat

04-14-2007

I have a '01 TT600 that I just bought, and it had been laid down but it wasn't to terrible. I have put about 500 miles on it since I bought it and it now has 5500 miles on it. I went to leave my house the other day for a ride and the oil light came on. I thought it was a low oil light so i did an oil change but then found out from doing research that it was the low oil pressure light. Does anyone have any ideas of the cayuse is this a common problem? I also was wondering if the sending unit for the oil pressure may have gotten messed up? Like i said it rode fine no leaks or smoke for 500 miles, theres still no smoke and it appears to run fine but now that light is on. Thanks for any advice.

Will · 04-14-2007

Was it dropped on the right side? Its oil pressure sensor is on the lower right front of the motor. I don't know why it would have taken 500 miles to fail, but maybe it was damaged in the drop. Pull the right side plastic and take a look. You can find it pretty easily by looking for wires on the side of the engine. If it isn't the sensor, I don't know why it would have a low pressure reading unless there is a real problem of some kind. If you have low oil pressure, you should also hear the valves a lot more than before.

showmetheway428 · 04-14-2007

Remove the plate, unscrew the sensor, clean it up, screw it back on with the plate. I think the plate comes in contact with it slightly and does something weird. Just doing that should work though.

Will · 04-15-2007

Triumph put the cover plate on S4s. TT600s didn't have a plate over the oil pressure sensor. I guess Triumph figured the plastic would be protection enough. For what its worth, you can see the location of the sensor with the plastic on the bike because there is a little bulge over it.

showmetheway428 · 04-15-2007

I don't know what the point of the metal plate is. I bet if you kicked it, the oil pressure light would come on.

Joe275 · 04-16-2007

the way the sensor is wired, when it is disconnected or goes bad, it gives you NO LIGHT. so when you turn on the key, and the engine is not running, the oil light should be on. if it does not light up, the sensor is bad. and that little guard helps, the sensor has a metal base, metal tip, with plastic inbetween, dosen't take much to snap it off, and ofcourse, its not cheap..

kubbie · 04-16-2007

my sensor got water inside the rubber dust cover, rusted a little bit and tripped the low oil light ,on the way to Deals Gap, no less. Anyway made sure I had pressure by cracking open the oil line to the head. Had plenty.

So before you replace it just unscrew the wire, clean it up, reinstall w/ some dielectric grease to keep the contact dry & tight.

should work fine after that.

kubbie

05-12-2007

Well I'm still waiting for my new oil pressure switch to get in at the local bike shop. In the mean time I was wondering if there was any way to manually check my oil pressure with a gauge and if so what type of gauge. I pulled the oil line off the head that runs down into the switch and started it and a lot of oil squirted out. I did that just to see if it was still flowing to the head and it seems to be flowing up there still. Was going to check the pressure just so I could sleep a little easier at night. Thanks!

showmetheway428 · 05-12-2007

Did you try just cleaning up the wire? Your oil pressure sensor is busted if it doesn't display low oil when you turn the key. I'm being 100% serious when I say that just readjusting the rubber boot and fiddling a bit with the wire will cure your sensor problem.

Feel free to replace it if you like though

05-13-2007

So i cleaned to switch the wire and the screw put it together and started it and the light stayed off so i began to put my bodywork on mhile it was running and then it came back on this was after about five minutes. where as usually the light came on very quick. So i took the panel off and jigled the wire and lossened and tightened the screw and nothing. now im not sure.