Hi, just bought an ’04 Sportsman 500HO from a friend for $600. It has a winch and a snow plow and it visually in good shape for 11 years old. HOWEVER, the original owner wine to get on it about 8 months ago and it wouldn’t start. So rather than fix it, he bought a new quad… Then my buddy had it and now I have it. So it wouldn’t start for me; could’t even get the plug to get a spark. I adjusted the pulse coil on the fly wheel ( it was about 1/2" away from the fly wheel…) and now I have spark but it will only fire with starting fluid. I’m pretty sure the fuel pump is vapor locked which is why I’m not getting fuel to the carb. I’ll be freshening up all fluids this weekend when I dig back in to it. I’m fairly confident I’ll be taking the carb apart for cleaning too.

The other issue I have is the starter won’t work either. It has a new battery and spark plug, and when I turn the key, the coil next to the battery just clicks. I tapped the started lightly with a mallet thinking maybe it was going bad and locked up and it turned over a few times but now won’t do anything.

Other info, I did a compression test using the pull starter and am getting 90lbs.