Hi guys, I have a 99 sportsman 500. Runs pretty well overall. Only issue I have is really long cranking times some of the time. When it hasn’t been ran for a while and is cooled to ambient temp, I can choke it, and it’ll start right away. Sometimes though it’ll die within a few seconds and then is a bear to start. It’ll take about 30 seconds or more of cranking before it’ll finally start again.

And when you shut it off when it’s hot, it’s almost impossible to get it started again. No amount of cranking with or without choke, with or without throttle seems to be able to get it started.

The strange thing is though, once it is running, it runs absolutely perfectly. No hesitations, nothing. It runs perfect.

Any ideas where to start? With hunting season here I’ll be using it a alot more, and it’d be nice to get this figured out soon.

Thanks!