Today I took my companies 2010 Polaris 550 EFI to the mountains for a job and while climbing a hill i slowly lost power. Shut it off immediately and pulled the dipstick and white smoke came rolling out. Oil was just checked last Wednesday and it was full. No warning lights came on or funny sounds, no knock. What I’m curios is to wondering if it is worth tearing into and possible rebuilding?

I was riding up a short hill when my quad stopped moving forwards and was making a horrendous grinding noise. it sounds like the teeth of some of the inner workings of the driveshaft were broken off or worn out.
it happened in 4×4 and does the same thing in 2×4 and reverse.
I would compare the sound it makes, to that of a stripped screw when using a cordless drill but on a larger scale.
any info on what this could be would be extremely helpful.
I have the manual for the quad so I am planning to tackle this project myself.
thanks all

-Tyler

I was riding up a short hill when my quad stopped moving forwards and was making a horrendous grinding noise. it sounds like the teeth of some of the inner workings of the driveshaft were broken off or worn out.
it happened in 4×4 and does the same thing in 2×4 and reverse.
I would compare the sound it makes, to that of a stripped screw when using a cordless drill but on a larger scale.
any info on what this could be would be extremely helpful.
I have the manual for the quad so I am planning to tackle this project myself.
thanks all

-Tyler

Ok I got a 2013 grizzly 700 4×4 one minute it gets fuel and one minute it don’t. The fuel pump is running. What can I do to fix?

Ok I got a 2013 grizzly 700 4×4 one minute it gets fuel and one minute it don’t. The fuel pump is running. What can I do to fix?

I have a 1995 Yamaha Kodiak 400. The reverse light stays on all the time. I have no problems with neutral light or any thing else. No problem starting etc. It’s just annoying with the light always on. I can’t find out where the light gets the signal from. Anyone have any idea? Found the neutral switch that has one wire going to it but it doesn’t affect the reverse light.

I have a 1995 Yamaha Kodiak 400. The reverse light stays on all the time. I have no problems with neutral light or any thing else. No problem starting etc. It’s just annoying with the light always on. I can’t find out where the light gets the signal from. Anyone have any idea? Found the neutral switch that has one wire going to it but it doesn’t affect the reverse light.

Greetings everybody. First post so go easy on me. I will say I have done some reading and thought I had figured out my problem but alas, I am just wasting my money.

2001, 600. I’m cruising around one day, luckily close to home, and the machine kinda sputters and dies. I get it home, fart around with it a couple days, do the ol’ wire wiggle and she fires right up. Now someone had done some previous repairs (more on that later) where wires had been twisted together and taped. No solder or shrink wrap or even a butt connector.

A couple months down the road, no issues until my brother in law had been cruising it around, on and off for a couple hours. He brings it back acting kinda weird. I jump on it and it seems to run fine until I gun it. It starts backfiring, stalling, lack of power, etc. If I’m easy on it though it runs fine.

Well now my wife wants to take a cruise. It fires up fine but as soon as she give it any throttle at all, it tries to die. Eventually it quit running and won’t start at all. Now it won’t crank and I find my starter relay is bad.

After some interwebs research, I find where the wiring harness on the right hand side by the exhaust has been slightly melted. I read that it can kill the starter relay, pickup coil and ignition (?) coil. So I replace them all. The previous shoddy repair turns out to be for the same thing. I checked the harness, repaired it a little and put some heat tape on it.

So at this point I’ve replace the stator/pickup coil, the ignition coil, and the starter relay. Still no spark, tested by pulling the wire off the plug and either looking or feeling for a pulse.

I will say, I got the cheap eBay stator/pickup coil and had to cut and solder the harness. I wasn’t too sure on which wires to connect. There were three white wires on the stator and I had no idea which went where so I winged (?) it. The others I’m fairly certain were right. Green to green, white to white, red with blue stripe to red, and brown to reddish brown.

What next?? Get a manual? 😀

Can I put 26x9x14 on the front of my 2012 Sportsman 850 Touring with no problems?

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Hello,
I recently purchased a 2008 SP 500 HO EFI with 2400 miles. Low hours so it was mostly long trail rides. Runs great. The only problem is when I had it out on the trail for the first time it acted funny.
We had been riding for about 1hr when I stopped to let the group of riders catch up is stalled while idling. I went to restart and it just kept turning. I shut the key off and tried again. This time nothing. No turn over. The display didn’t light up. I thought I was screwed. So I checked and I had it in park along with holding the break.
I turned the key off and tried again an viola it started. Drove for another 1/2 and stopped for lunch(45mins) and again turns over no start. Try again and blank display. try again and it started?
Any clues to what this might be?
TIA
KM