Hi everyone, hope you can shed some light on this?
I was racing up at Cadwell last weekend. The bike ran perfectly through all of the Friday test day, Sadurday's Qualifying and 2 races (4th/3rd) and the first race on the sunday (5th).
I came to the last race and made a blinding start. I was up to second in the rookies and 8th overall. Lap 3 of 9 came round and I suddenly noticed that the red warning light was on and FI was displaying on the dash.
I wasnt going to retire from the race as the bike felt fine and I was in such a good position. So I just backed off a tad and brought it home. Eventually finished in 3rd which was good. As I tootled back to the paddock I pulled the clutch in and noticed that the bike was idling at 4000rpm!!! I got back, stuck the bike up on the stands and turned it off. Let it cool and went back to it about half an hour later.
Sure enough I turned the ignition on and it started up fine, Idled at 2000rpm as I had set it and no warning lights. Hmmm? Confused!
I let the bike cool down once again and gave it all a check over. I left it another half an hour while I was packing up and noticed that there was no oil in the sight glass! S**t!!!
I'd had enough by this point and drove home. I have only just got around to servicing the bike due to work commitments today. The bike has been sat for a week and still no oil in the sight glass. I drained it out and there was only 1.4L!! Probably 1.5L if I took the filter off, which I will be doing later. There are no metal shards on the Sump Plug either.
I'm stumped? Are these two connected?? My mrs was watching from the mountain and I have checked a few racing line photographs and both confirm a lack of blue smoke. There is also no visible sign of oil leakage around the engine or in the bellypan.
Really could do with a few words of wisdom, any ideas???
Cheers guys.
