This morning as I was hooking everything up to head to the lake ice fishing, I started up my 2016 650 and let it run for a bit. First to make sure it was going to start (-6F) and to give it a little heat before getting to the lake. Finished strapping it down and headed off to the lake. Once I got there, turned the key and the dash didn’t light up and the fuel pump didn’t start up. Hit the start button and a bunch of different lights on the dash would flash and the engine turned over but no start. Thought maybe dead battery but the headlights were bright as can be. Right before giving up I figured I would try removing my tie down strap that went from my front bumper to the trailer. As soon as I removed the tension from it you could hear the fuel pump do it’s initial start and all the dash lights illuminated. I tried to replicate it when I got home but it fired right up. Not sure if I had the strap pulled as tight as I did in the morning.
So to make a long story short, my question is is there a sensor that kills everything off if the front end is pulled down to tight?
Just curious if anyone has done the pass from boulder/purinton into the back of Nelchina public use area? I’ve heard of guys attempting in trucks but unable to make the pass because the boulders get to big.
I’ve noticed that some guys(and gals) run 25" or 26" tires on front and rear of 2wds. I can’t remember what the factory size tires on mine are, but I believe that the front is slightly shorter than the rear. Does Honda do this in order to make it slightly nose heavy to reduce chances of flipping on steep terrain? If so, I’m guessing that putting the same size tire front and rear would shift the center of gravity towards the rear, making the front a little lighter?
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Got out ice fishing the past couple days this one lake that’s about a 40 min atv ride. Landed a personal best yesterday. Thought I had a snag on cause the first couple seconds it didn’t want to budge then the fight started. Landed this bad boy brookie yesterday approx 2.5lbs. I’m kinda kicking myself for letting it go but I truly hope some kid catches it in the summer.
I have a 2014 Sportsman 570 w @ 3k miles on it. it’s been loosing compression and has been getting progressively worse over the couple summers I’ve had it since new. It had hard start issues the first year I bought it. I finally diagnosed the problem down to valve lash. My question is this. How can valve lash decrease? The cams have zero gap between the lobes and valve bucket/shims. I am 100% this is the issue. I have checked it with feeler gauges to confirm and if I loosen the cam girdle it gets more compression. Can someone explain this? Has anyone seen this happen before? This seems counter intuitive to me. It’s like the cam lobes are growing over time.
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This has only been ridden four times. It has 5-8 hours on it. We tried to start it this morning. It made a strange noise. Now the starter is just free spinning. The dealer is a good distance away so I’m hoping I can fix this here. Is there a troubleshooting procedure or common problem with these that I may be able to fix on site? It snowed here. He tried to ride it in the snow yesterday but it just kept bogging down in 7" of snow. This morning is when the trouble started when we tried to start it.
The boy is out of school tomorrow and has some free riding time since he couldn’t ride it today. I’m hoping this is something simple to fix.
Just purchased my new 2016 Grizz 700 EPS brought it home the other night and put it in the garage with a whopping 1 km on it. Not even 30 hours later go out to try to start it and nothing. Now, I live in Canada and yes its damn cold here right now. At night it’s -20 to -25C and during the day warms up to -12 to -17 though it is in an unheated garage and everything else parked in there starts just fine (including the John Deere 125 that hasn’t ran since end of October!). I did the whole turn the key over twice to prime it before trying to start it and all I got was a sad excuse of an attempt to start and then nothing. I gave it a couple more tries and stopped. Checked my battery voltage and it read 12.2 seemed little low for a brand new machine but regardless. Gave the beast a boost (so didn’t kill my battery) and finally got it started and gave it a little warm up. Parked it back in the garage and put a battery tether on it for the night. Now here I am 24 hours later with high hopes I will go out and Big Grizz is going to be a good bear and start up on at least the second try for me. Battery Voltage reads now 12.66. Nope. Nothing again. Won’t start. What is going on?! I am 2 seconds away from loading it up and telling yamaha dealership they can have their ATV back I’ll stick with my Apex this winter. I have had this quad for just over 48 hours now and haven’t even been able to start it. I plan to ask them tomorrow what oil is in there as I am sure its factory oil and not the winter 0/30 or 0/40 oil. Is it just too new? Too cold? The salesman knew my intentions for buying the machine was for plowing my drive hence the snowplow I purchased with it. I’ve seen videos of guys starting these things sitting in the backs of their trucks all night in -25C and they fire right up! Anyone got any ideas? Could it be something else? I’m so frustrated and heartbroken…:crying:
Just purchased my new 2016 Grizz 700 EPS brought it home the other night and put it in the garage with a whopping 1 km on it. Not even 30 hours later go out to try to start it and nothing. Now, I live in Canada and yes its damn cold here right now. At night it’s -20 to -25C and during the day warms up to -12 to -17 though it is in an unheated garage and everything else parked in there starts just fine (including the John Deere 125 that hasn’t ran since end of October!). I did the whole turn the key over twice to prime it before trying to start it and all I got was a sad excuse of an attempt to start and then nothing. I gave it a couple more tries and stopped. Checked my battery voltage and it read 12.2 seemed little low for a brand new machine but regardless. Gave the beast a boost (so didn’t kill my battery) and finally got it started and gave it a little warm up. Parked it back in the garage and put a battery tether on it for the night. Now here I am 24 hours later with high hopes I will go out and Big Grizz is going to be a good bear and start up on at least the second try for me. Battery Voltage reads now 12.66. Nope. Nothing again. Won’t start. What is going on?! I am 2 seconds away from loading it up and telling yamaha dealership they can have their ATV back I’ll stick with my Apex this winter. I have had this quad for just over 48 hours now and haven’t even been able to start it. I plan to ask them tomorrow what oil is in there as I am sure its factory oil and not the winter 0/30 or 0/40 oil. Is it just too new? Too cold? The salesman knew my intentions for buying the machine was for plowing my drive hence the snowplow I purchased with it. I’ve seen videos of guys starting these things sitting in the backs of their trucks all night in -25C and they fire right up! Anyone got any ideas? Could it be something else? I’m so frustrated and heartbroken…:crying:
