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ATV General Discussion

New riders

Well the grandkids came over yesterday evening , and the first thing they did was jump on the wheelers and ask if they could ride them.

I showed them how to start and shift them, and told them to go out in the vacant field out back and ride and don’t come back until you are ready to park them. lol
My daughter ask if I showed them where the brakes were at, and I said no, but I did tell them if one of them got killed for the other one to come and tell us. lol

After a while I took the artic cat out and checked on them, The oldest was just sitting there on my new to me old 350 fourtrax. I thought she was haveing trouble, but she said she killed it because it was getting hot and was letting it cool down.
It was not getting hot, but it has an oil leak around the valve cover and when it gets on the exhaust, you can smell it.
It made me proud that a 13 year old girl had enough sense to stop when she thought it was getting hot.
They played for a couple of hours, and were doing pretty good, it won’t be long before they will be ready to take to some trails.

ATV General Discussion

Sticking choke cable

Sportsman 500 HO carbureted was running really rough, surging, missing. Had rebuilt the carb once, and thought it was the same issue. Rebuilt it again. No improvement. Finally found choke cable was sticking and flooding motor. Knob moved but did not move enrichener. New cable $60. Rigged it. Cut outer sheathing of cable near side panel so cable would be straight to carb. Exposed inner cable and now operate choke simply by grabbing cable with fingers and pull to choke; push to offchoke. If you have a motor running like crap check the enrichener before tearing out the carb.
ATV General Discussion

left my 4wd on

hi my rancher 420 fe i was gone over rouf terain river crossing had my 4wd on to cross but i then forgot to turn my 4wd off 🙁 never noticed it tbh…someone said to me that its bad job to have 4wd on driving fast…i was driving for bout just under 1 hour ..anyone tell me iff this is bad or ok thanks very mutch
also do you have to stop before changing from 2wd to 4wd? thanks
ATV General Discussion

How do you secure your machine?

For the time being I’m gonna have to let the old 4×4 set out back next to my garage. But I’m not too happy with it just sitting out in the open and am wondering what would be a good way to deter thieves. First it’ll be covered of course from top to bottom. Second I guess I’ll be digging big a** hole and filling it with probably around 500lbs of concrete with a giant 1" diameter loop of rod sticking out the top. It’ll actually be a huge U-bolt clamp I’ll get from a local fastener company. Using this I’ll try to physically secure it looping some hardened chain through what part of the atv I don’t know.

Only other idea (which is a bit far fetched I’ll admit) is to hook up some kind of alarm system by way of a cable like you see sometimes on store merchandise out for display. I assume it would be hooked up to a loud speaker. Again I know this one is going somewhat overboard but considering how easily the quad could be jacked it might be the one deterrent that keeps it safe.

Open to your suggestions

PS. Don’t really live in a bad neighborhood but the neighborhood kids are through my back yard all the time especially at night…thus the need for security.

ATV General Discussion

Stuck in reverse

I have been riding my trx 200 after replacing the right cover seal and today for the first time it got stuck in reverse! I could not get it into N while running, however when I turned it off it went right into N. The only thing I can think of is for some reason I pulled the reverse lever when going from R to N. Anyone ever experience this??