Category Archives: Polaris Sportsman

Sportsman 500 efi

Got a 2007 sportsman 500 EFI lost "all power" to everything.No key power,no winch,no lights, speedo, nothing.Please help, let’s keep the po po’s running.All help and suggestions are better than no responses, thanks in advance,Mike.

2004 OEM Sportsman 500 HO Brush Guard

Does anyone have a copy of mounting instructions for a Polaris OEM Brush Guard I’m trying to put on a newly purchased 2004 Sportsman 500. I believe the Guard i have is a Generation IV which I supposedly need but still doesn’t look right with the parts provided for mounting.

Thanks for any help

2004 OEM Sportsman 500 HO Brush Guard

Does anyone have a copy of mounting instructions for a Polaris OEM Brush Guard I’m trying to put on a newly purchased 2004 Sportsman 500. I believe the Guard i have is a Generation IV which I supposedly need but still doesn’t look right with the parts provided for mounting.

Thanks for any help

Winch talk

Just got my first ATV, a ’11 700 Grizz and planning on doing some trail riding soon. First piece of equipment I’m adding is a winch and I’m needing some suggestions for something that would be good for my kind of riding but comes at a decent price. Usually I try to get quality stuff (Warn) but since I’m needing to conserve denero right now I figure this winch is something that (at least for me) doesn’t have to be crazy great/expensive. Although I’d still like to get something that’s decent quality and can pull well, in my middle age I hardly think I’ll be voluntarily launching into any terrain that has the potential to get me too stuck…thus I doubt I’ll be using the winch that often.

Anybody have a suggestion for a model that’s decent quality for around say $300 bucks? Doesn’t have to be built to be used time after time but quality does still count.

Thanks

2012 Sportsman 500 HO Starting and Idling Issues Help!!!

Hey guys, got a 12 Sportsman 500 HO that is being a little pima. This machine doesn’t like to start cold, by cold I am referring to when it sits overnight and want to start it the next morning. I don’t ride in the winter so the weather is usually nice. Anyways I apply full choke and try starting it but it doesn’t want to. If I push the choke in around 3/4’s out it will want to start but I have to give it throttle to finally get it to start and run. Sometimes it will stay running with just the 3/4 out choke but most of the times I have to remain on the throttle until it warms up a bit. This issue wasn’t always there, probably started happening when the atv got to 2,000 miles or so. This is my dad’s machine and he just delt with it but it came to a point when he started to get annoyed and embarrassed so I have tried a few things. First I have removed the carb, fully disassembled it for a good cleaning. Along with this I removed the brass plug for the idle air adjustment screw. I noticed that the screw was set about 1 turn out from the factory when according to my Polaris FSM it should be around 2 turns out. The other thing I tried was adjusting the throttle cable at the bars. Well actually once I cleaned the carb I put it all back together then I used a 90 deg idle air adjusting screw driver and made the idle air screw adjustment like Polaris states in the FSM. All while adjusting the throttle and idle cables. Still no effect on cold starting. I’ve tried setting the IAS from 1 turn out all the way to 3 turns out and almost everywhere in between with no success.
My other issue is this pig won’t hold a idle. Once the engine is warm I can set the idle to 1200rpm and ride for any period of time but when I come to a stop a sit idling for 30 seconds the idle has worked it way down to 950ish rpm. If I bumb the idle back up to 1200rpm it will do the same thing. Once I get to a certain point of adjustment the idle will obviously be high, then it will hold the idle but by then it’s idling usually around 1500rpm+. Which is way to high of an idle.
If any of you guys have ran into simular problems please feel free to post your fixes or if you have an idea of what I should check next.
As of last month while trying to fix these issues I replaced the fuel filter and got a Uni air filter.
Thanks!!