1st off.....When starting a new topic as you have done here, always include what bike it is you are working on (you didn't put this in an existing project shop thread of your bike for us to be able to look back through even if we'd have been following closely the thread)
and on this type of questions be sure to include what the history of what you have been doing/have done so far, is this a long sleeping bike that you are just trying to start, or like have you done anything inside the motor, how extensive in the motor. Have you taken apart and rebuild the oil pump, primed the oil pump before it was reinstalled?
Have you sand blasted/vapor honed the cases etc as that could cause plugged oil restrictors....
Don't expect everyone to remember what you have or have done when starting a new topic thread.
Have you been imbibing while doing this project?(it's a holiday and many do.....I'm just going by what you have written)
On to your query at hand.....
Are the spark plugs out while you are doing this test?(you seem to have typed this out in haste because of the lack of information given and sort of jumbled wording like getting it to fire off tells me the plugs are in, so cranking speeds will be slower than if plugs are out to test for oil flow in the top of the head.) Oil won't be "spraying " out. Flowing out over the exhaust valve cap thread holes is more the case.
Saying that the oil light goes out pretty fast doesn't give any reference to time, one kick, 10 kicks, 10 seconds of starter motor etc. If it was running before this work?? Was the light going off and on properly?
Have you pressure tested the oil pressure switch? It sounds like possibly the pressure switch may be faulty.
Have you opened the lower oil gallery port to check for oil flow below the head?
So many questions and variables in this topic left out of the equation. Sorry for the drill but all is important.
thanks for pointing that out, i've only been here this time for only 8 yrs, and sometimes it seems that what i post or how i post generates very few responses some times again. and i certainly don't want to trouble anyone, and lately i've noticed my organization skills have seriously declined and i didn't pay much attention in school. for some reason i did take a picture of the bike i ride or have rode since the beginning of 1980s as an avatar, maybe it's too far away, or it doesn't show up the post is opened, i can see there's a lot of lack of regard of my not being aware of how quite to write as well as the rest of the users here on the site are. please accept my apologies. i read alot here i probably should stick to that and learn how to use the spell check. i donate more here than i can afford maybe in hopes of being more tolerated from plain mistakes, but i see that isn't really how it works. i'll keep an eye on my ability progress and i'll delete the account before i get on everybody's nerves i hope. i'll post less, and try to include the details and write less about nothing it turns out to be. thanks, at least you mentioned it. now i know. i smoke a lot of beef jerky and salmon, yesterday i put in chuck pot roast sliced in a large propane smoker and at 45 mins it was done, but it let it smoke for a bit more, and the whole thing probably went gaseous and ignited inside, temps were over 700 degrees. by the time i could pull the racks out, it all was charcoal strips. i can't throw em away they were 15 dollars, store bought. that's what i've been dealing with lately. haha. oh well that's how it works. to answer about the oil pressure light, after it was off from trying to get it to start, it started and i shut it off fast to check the outside intake and ex valves and it wasn't very oiled. and then kicking it 1 time after the lag, the oil lite went from on to off and stayed off for 15 to 20 seconds. from 1 kick after checking the condition of the oil film in the upper end. that's weird for 1 kick.
oil gallery port? like remove the head? and funny about the oil pressure testing, i noticed a tiny gap on that cover and the oil pressure wire was pinched flat in 2 places from case assembly by the countershaft sprocket. i don't think it's caused any bad connection or short though. i bought the bike 6 months ago red cb400f 1975 on the vin plate, completely stock as it was leaving the showroom floor, 10,500 miles on the odometer. it was complete minus the brake caliper and disc cover, no dents or scratches and rusty, it looks as though it was ridden with extreme care, without any maintenance, the rear brakes are worn out, and the front disc has hardly any wear at all, that tells me alot about the original owner, i took the motor out and painted the frame. i took the valve cover off to see if the cam chain was hitting the case. or if the tensioner was seized and it wasn't, it was in the best condition i've ever seen in 4 motors, the cam showed nearly no wear marks in the thrust and carrier bearings. there was sludge in the cam reservoirs like i've never seen before and in the oil pan, it wasn't metal or grity, but possible non detergent oil. i put it back together, didn't paint the motor. i couldn't find any rustoleum appliance epoxy so i used just the black gloss, semi, and satin, on the frame so i really didn't care about not painting the motor. i didnt' check the gallery on top of the head at the spay bar joint, big mistake while i had the chance. when i put the pan back on the screne pick up oring and the by pass tube were dried and shrunken, and from never ever worrying about the screen oring before. i put it back like it was because i couldn't find another oring that fit. so my plan was to drop the pan again, and see if it's sucking air. but i gotta take the exhause off again to get to the close side unless i find the swivel 1/4in extension. that just occurred to me. it's taken me 6 months to do what should of taken a week to do. i work on it every day. i'm gonna go outside and pull a valve adj cap off of another same bike and with the starter or kicking only i'm gonna compare the amount of oil delivered to the top, if might be the same and if so. i'll just run the newest bike and wing it.
