Aw sufferin' suckertash..

Just when things were coming together :
Red means good , right?

Looks like the "Grand Unveiling :The silver sleeved dream machine" may be on hold for a while...

Not good..

oh dear and only 11k?

Originally Posted by classicgal93

oh dear and only 11k?

I wish !

The last digit is obscured by the cowling !

Oh well , takes more than that to kill an Lampredi engine .

*looks for wood to touch*

That'll be a new crank, shells and oil pump then....

may not, could be faulty oil sender unit

Originally Posted by explosive alfa

may not, could be faulty oil sender unit

You'd be the one who'd know

TBH it always comes on, in my twinny as it drinks oil like no ones business!

check it with a mechanical guage (pipe type) before making hasty decissions or condemnations

cars fine, i drove it on thursday

Originally Posted by explosive alfa

cars fine, i drove it on thursday

Yep , what the man said .
We spent Thursday blatting across the country , Sunday down to the West Country , & tomorrow East Anglia gets a dose...
Have racked-up 600-odd miles at (barely ) legal speeds , including several dust-ups with the local heroes , she's as healthy as the day she was born.
It appears that there is some residual current creeping into the system , making the lamp glow weakly , but of course you can only see it when the ambient light is low....
So the next(ish) job is to discover why , and why I've got no pressure or temperature gauge readings.
For now , the bulb is rattling around the glovebox , cheap fix !!! ..

Originally Posted by explosive alfa

may not, could be faulty oil sender unit

Good point - I assumed that the OP gauge was going to be showing near 0 as well.

Originally Posted by alfaspence

check it with a mechanical guage (pipe type) before making hasty decissions or condemnations

Also a good point. Again, I'd assumed that something more rigorous than 'Oh, a red light' had been done by way of diagnosis