WTF!?! Oil Light on AGAIN!?!
Road Master
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From: NY
Sorry to hear of your troubles. Typically the dealer has three attempts to repair before the Lemon Law kicks in. Here is the link to the ME Law:
http://www.bbb.org/us/Storage/16/Doc...-LLsummary.pdf
http://www.bbb.org/us/Storage/16/Doc...-LLsummary.pdf
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Tourer
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From: Portland, ME
I just got a call from the dealership. This is an odd one.
The Fat Boy Lo's come with a black painted oil tank. While it is being painted, they put a plug in the tank opening to keep paint from getting in there. The technician put a mirror in the tank and found that plug had fallen into to the tank and had moved around and blocked the oil feed enough to trigger the sensor, even though oil could still get through.
So that explains that part. They are still looking into why it was stalling.
The Fat Boy Lo's come with a black painted oil tank. While it is being painted, they put a plug in the tank opening to keep paint from getting in there. The technician put a mirror in the tank and found that plug had fallen into to the tank and had moved around and blocked the oil feed enough to trigger the sensor, even though oil could still get through.
So that explains that part. They are still looking into why it was stalling.
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From: Michigan
I just got a call from the dealership. This is an odd one.
The Fat Boy Lo's come with a black painted oil tank. While it is being painted, they put a plug in the tank opening to keep paint from getting in there. The technician put a mirror in the tank and found that plug had fallen into to the tank and had moved around and blocked the oil feed enough to trigger the sensor, even though oil could still get through.
So that explains that part. They are still looking into why it was stalling.
The Fat Boy Lo's come with a black painted oil tank. While it is being painted, they put a plug in the tank opening to keep paint from getting in there. The technician put a mirror in the tank and found that plug had fallen into to the tank and had moved around and blocked the oil feed enough to trigger the sensor, even though oil could still get through.
So that explains that part. They are still looking into why it was stalling.
This sucks for quality control but hey things just happen sometimes. I would think the stalling is more of an electrical issue. It might have some sort of a safety shutdown on the ECM when oil flow decreases. Or it might ne a bad ECM as said before.
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From: In the World
SWAG. 1st yr for CAN/LAN. Maybe a lvs .... is it possible the MOCO added a low oil light ... or maybe just the lvs for low oil pressure? See....the CAN is maybe wanting a condition close on the oil pressure .... it let's the engine start since there is 0 pressure at crank .... but then kills the motor when it gets open condition - no oil pressure at run. Some high end cars have that in their CANS.
Mybe the dealership techs have not gotten squat on the CAN/LAN.
Mybe the dealership techs have not gotten squat on the CAN/LAN.
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You got the oil light, you shut it down, service found foreign object in the oil tank. I am not an motorcycle mechanic, but as an aircraft mechanic, I would say as long as they have accounted for the entire plug take another swing at it. Stalling may be something different, but I would guess it was associated with low oil pressure/flow only because it would seem extremely unlikely you would have 2 different major problems going on at the same time. Hope that's the fix. I am thinking after they threw a motor at it and it came back for the same discrepancy, they will wring it out well before they send it back out the door. Hang in there brother, keep the faith and maybe we can all meet up with moriarty on the road up in Aroostook County someday and show him some good ole American biker hospitality.
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You got the oil light, you shut it down, service found foreign object in the oil tank. I am not an motorcycle mechanic, but as an aircraft mechanic, I would say as long as they have accounted for the entire plug take another swing at it. Stalling may be something different, but I would guess it was associated with low oil pressure/flow only because it would seem extremely unlikely you would have 2 different major problems going on at the same time. Hope that's the fix. I am thinking after they threw a motor at it and it came back for the same discrepancy, they will wring it out well before they send it back out the door. Hang in there brother, keep the faith and maybe we can all meet up with moriarty on the road up in Aroostook County someday and show him some good ole American biker hospitality.
