Oil Pressure and Neutral Indicator lights

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clevelandx

New Member
Both my oil pressure and neutral indicator lights are on all the time. Bike runs fine, no sign of low oil pressure and I DEFINITELY know when I'm not in neutral. I tried replacing both switches on the bike but same problem. No shorts or frays in the wiring the best I can tell. Does anyone have any ideas?
 

chacha

Chaff Your EHC!!
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Then that pretty much just leaves a short at the tach board if the lines are fine and you tried to swap the sensors....
 

V

Guru
How about your handle bar switches? I had a 05 PB that if I got caught in the rain it would make the oil light come on. Have youe switches been upgraded?
 

lee

Well-Known Member
yeah my neutral light comes on if I get caught in a good downpour. Goes off when it dries out.
 

vej

Active Member
My oil light comes on if I get too much rain... BD Tampa said it was water that gets in and shorts the tach board. You'd think they would be sealed up better.

Anyone know how to get them sealed up better? I worry about corrosion from the water. ( I ride in rain alot )
 

Fibersnake

Banjo Playing PsychoBilly
Both my oil pressure and neutral indicator lights are on all the time. Bike runs fine, no sign of low oil pressure and I DEFINITELY know when I'm not in neutral. I tried replacing both switches on the bike but same problem. No shorts or frays in the wiring the best I can tell. Does anyone have any ideas?
May be a broken wire, more than likely right out the terminal of the tach board. Have it is occur a few times, usually shortly after I had my center counsul off.

The pigtail that goes into the Tach board is very stiff and the wires are very small, they tend to break if not very carefull when taking off the center consul. The times it has happened to mine, it was right at the solder terminal hole on the board and due to the very tight fit, it was hard to detect.

Would check it out and if you see a broken connection there (look very very close), then that is your problem. Oh when it happens it tends to be the neutral and or oil.

If it broken, you can buy a new one for around $100 or so, or you can get a good solder kit out including a desoldering syrign and redo it. Somewhat easy if you take your time and use the right tools. It helps to have a very small index drill to clean up the hole after the solder is removed prior to resolder.

Let us know what you find.

Oh suggest if you do have to repair or even take it out to look, that you give it some waterproofing using some good wire proofing spray that leave a coating to protect.

Do a search through the old thread and if not mistaken GasMan did a good write up on such.
 

RRRUFF

Well-Known Member
Mine did this exact same thing one when I got caught in the north Ga mountains in a heavy down pour. It turned out to be water in the connector at the EHC. Dried it out, put in some dielectric grease problem gone.
 
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