Oil light comes on and stays on...

I just bought a 2005 Eton Viper 90R for my son. It's an oil injected two stroke. The wiring harness was fried when i bought it, this has since been replaced. I had unplugged and stripped down the entire bike for cleaning. Everything, to the best of my knowledge, is plugged back in correctly.

The bike fires right up. The oil light, at first, would light up for a few seconds then shut off. But now that i've started it a few times, the engine oil light comes on and stays on. The oil under the seat is 3/4 full.

I'm new to this so bear with me... is this oil light for that bottle or for the engine itself?

There may be some residual air in the oil injection lines from me having disconnected it, could this be the issue. I get a fair amount of smoke from the tailpipe when the engine is on. What i would compare to other two strokes i've seen. (this is the first one i've owned)

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thanks - J.S.

 

the light is for the tank level. comes on when the tank gets low probably needs the sending unit in the tank replaced. look for wires coming out of the oil tank and make sure they are still connected to the main harness.

 

Floats on the sending units in the oil tank were too porous on Eton and Polaris 2 stroke models and became oil saturated and would sink to the bottom of the tank. The low oil light would stay on even if the tank is full. We always kept a few sender units in stock for this problem.