Hello. First post here. My 2005 Kodiak 450 lost spark. I drove it into my garage one morning, and was using the winch to tip it on the back rack so I could mount some skid plates. When cranking up the winch was slow so I started the engine to use the alternator to give some more voltage.

About 1/2 was up the engine died. I didn’t think anything of it because I wanted it off as the ATV was just about on the back rack. I put the skid plates on and lowered it back down with the winch. When I went to start it, I had no spark. I still have no spark and cannot figure out what might have happened.

I have since pulled the battery, charged it, cleaned up the terminals. Pulled the fuses and made sure all were intact. ANd pulled the spark plug, put it on my tiller to make sure it sparks and it does.

I pulled a bunch of plastic off the front because I thought I might be able to "see" some lightning in there but I don’t see anything out of the ordinary.

I have done a bunch of searching and most people were talking about changing coils and CDI boxes and I am wondering if there are easy things that should be checked first?