Oil pressure
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06-30-2014 | 03:08 PM
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Oil pressure
So I jut got home from a 1 1/2 hour ordeal trying to get my 2010 Electra Glide jump started...(I am in need of a battery as it seems) So I let it idle in the garage for about 20 minutes after I got home. Just went and checked everything..Whoa was bike hot. Temp gauge read 120, but more over the oil pressure gauge was nearly ZERO....Any ideas. No idiot lights on. Bike was screaming hot though.
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06-30-2014 | 03:11 PM
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So I jut got home from a 1 1/2 hour ordeal trying to get my 2010 Electra Glide jump started...(I am in need of a battery as it seems) So I let it idle in the garage for about 20 minutes after I got home. Just went and checked everything..Whoa was bike hot. Temp gauge read 120, but more over the oil pressure gause was nearly ZERO....ANy ideas. No idiot lights on. Bike was screaming hot though. Almost smelled a burning of rubber or something but all looks good.
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06-30-2014 | 03:27 PM
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So I jut got home from a 1 1/2 hour ordeal trying to get my 2010 Electra Glide jump started...(I am in need of a battery as it seems) So I let it idle in the garage for about 20 minutes after I got home. Just went and checked everything..Whoa was bike hot. Temp gauge read 120, but more over the oil pressure gauge was nearly ZERO....Any ideas. No idiot lights on. Bike was screaming hot though.
20 min in garage would warm the bike up as it needs cool air
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06-30-2014 | 03:39 PM
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I guess I never paid attention to the gauge before at idle. And yes I get that it would get hot, and the weather is hot as well. My bad. My point or question was about the oil pressure gauge. Just kind of freaked me out to see it at nearly Zero.
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06-30-2014 | 04:37 PM
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06-30-2014 | 04:43 PM
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06-30-2014 | 04:45 PM
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They are laughing with you, not at you (well, some are)
Don't take the beating to heart.
I have been in Florida in extreme heat with stop and go traffic in construction zones. Could not have been much easier on the motor.
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06-30-2014 | 04:50 PM
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one of the worst additions HD ever did years ago was put an oil pressure gauge on the touring bikes. People found out that at idle they were near zero and lined up at the dealerships. A friend once asked me how to solve the oil pressure = zero problem - I handed him some black tape and told him to put it over the gauge.