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Pre-CAN "check engine" light?

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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 08:50 PM
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Anybody know what conditions trip a check engine light on a non-emissions, carbureted pre-CAN bike?

I've never seen mine light up and I'm debating if I should bother wiring it up with my custom setup. It Will take some diodes and effort that I'm not sure will have any benefit.
 
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Old Sep 17, 2018 | 09:08 PM
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Crank position sensor for timing? Only thing I can think of off the top of my head.....might cause the light
 
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Old Sep 18, 2018 | 12:15 AM
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I've wondered this same thing.

Mine came on a couple of times shortly after my engine build, while I was chasing a noise in the cam chest. The Check Engine light would come on if the engine had been running for a bit. I found a bad cam chain (which I had idiotically reused). Once fixed, the light never came back on again.
 
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Sounds like building the circuit to make this work on my setup is a wasted effort. I'll seal off the lead (black w/ yellow stripe) and make a note to revisit whenever I do the Thunderheart ignition.
 
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