oil pressure light when riding, off when idlling

[benchrgw]

Thanks - nice looking piece -

[renobruce]

Thought I better make sure I had clearly described what is on bike, wish I had good pictures - need to work on that.

One hose comes from original oil pick up area behind cylinders and goes to oil cooler, other hose from cooler goes to the oil filter cover which has been fabricated to have a hose barb on it. The center of the oil filter cover has been machined to accept the oil switch which appears to be just a spring loaded valve / switch. Wire from this switch run back to the connection behind the cylinders (under the starter cover)

Does this sound like a familiar cooler to anyone? Maybe I should junk it and start over moving switch back to original location and checking from there.

I've never seen or heard of a set-up like that. It may work just fine, I don't know. If it is the same switch that came off of the original set-up, it might be bad. I have an extra switch you could have if you want to try it. But it sounds like it would look funky having one line going back behind the engine and one going down in front of the engine. Mine both go over each side of the engine:



Once the gas tank is on, you hardly notice the lines:

[HammerHead]

That is one nice lookin mo-chine Reno. Beautiful detail work.

[renobruce]

That is one nice lookin mo-chine Reno. Beautiful detail work.

Thanks! :-D

[benchrgw]

Reno - thanks for your input and I agree with Hammerhead - BEAUtiful bike, I've got alot of work ahead to look nearly that nice.

[benchrgw]

Great news - thanks for input - rather than chase lots of oil pressure issues, several replies made me question the oil cooler. I removed cooler and replaced oil filter cover with correct cover. Moved oil pressure switch back to factory position. No more oil pressure problems.

Put about 50 trouble free miles on today.

[KEITH KRAUSE]

Thanks for sharing. Since the same switch works now, it appears it was the routing/switch location all along.