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Sportsman 550 won’t start, clicks and buzzing noises

First off, I’m new, like most people I joined when a problem came up. Also, prior to even joining, I checked out the won’t start troubleshoot thread. So I got up to my house in Rangeley tonight. My Sister has used my quad a few times in the last month and it’s clear she hasn’t been cleaning them up at all after bombing through the woods. I tried to start it when I got here, the screen digital stuff shows up, but the backlight doesn’t come on. At first anyways. And if I hold the brake, it makes a weird buzzing noise. If I turn the key to ON and leave it alone for a minute, then the clicking will stop and the orange back light on the screen will come alive and it LOOKS promising like it’ll start, but as soon as I turn the key, it’s back to square one. I took a video and posted it to youtube, but appartently it’ll be a couple days before that video even posts. I’m going to TRY to attach the video here, but if anything, it might just be a picture. If anyone is willing enough to see/hear what’s going on, let me know and I’ll email you the video.

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More tire talk!

2012 renegade 1000 XXC
Yoshi pipe, pc5, stock clutch
Stock 12" beadlocks

I’m reading that the oe hole shot tires on here don’t quite measure up to 25" (I will check for myself when I get home from vacation if no one can measure for me!) and more like 24 or even 23.5 I read!

I’m going with Kenda HTRs and I’m looking to gain some ground clearance but also keep it as light as I can, and I enjoy the sportier feel.

So, going with 25" HTRs, will I gain ground clearance over stock 25’s? If anyone has these measurements or has been through this I’d love your thoughts.
I was originally convinced I was going to 26 HTRs but now reading that stockers are barely a 24, I’m thinking a 25 will suit me better and keep the weight down…but still gain clearance. So do the 25’s and 26’s HTRs measure true to size and do the stockers really NOT measure even close to true to size?
Thanks in advance guys!

94 Polaris xplorer no spark

Took apart recoil string housing pulled flywheel and stator and waterpump housing to change water pump seals got seals in and reassembled all as I took apart but now I don’t have spark idk what is going on I am sure it is correct is there anyway to check to see what is going on

94 Polaris xplorer no spark

Took apart recoil string housing pulled flywheel and stator and waterpump housing to change water pump seals got seals in and reassembled all as I took apart but now I don’t have spark idk what is going on I am sure it is correct is there anyway to check to see what is going on

startimg problem

So i have a 96 25p polaris trailblazer. Its a 2 stroke. It has a new spark plug and gets great spark. Its getting gas and air. We also checked the compression and thats fine. The starter itself does not work put it has a pull started yet we still cant get it running. Any ideas??

startimg problem

So i have a 96 25p polaris trailblazer. Its a 2 stroke. It has a new spark plug and gets great spark. Its getting gas and air. We also checked the compression and thats fine. The starter itself does not work put it has a pull started yet we still cant get it running. Any ideas??

2007 honda ricon rear brakes issue.

Seems I’m having hell with these brakes finaly got my 03 rancher brakes going now I’m working on my 07 Rincon and cant get the dam cover off the back that expsoes the inside of the drum! I took on the 2 big nuts and move them back and the washers but that dam plate wont come off it moves out and gets stuck it has some kinda ring in it that I cant get to slide out! it was seized up at first and I was able to get it to spin using a air chisel but it still wont slid off the shaft. any ideas on how to get it off? I was thinking maybe pulling the whole rear end off from left to right and putting it in a press or would that be a bad idea?

2016 foreman Rubicon PS problems

Have a 16 Rubicon that the PS light comes on and shuts off PS. Been to dealer several times and have replaced – battery/ 3 computers/ cleaned grounds / PS unit and problems still happens.. can shut off and start right back up and all is fine for a while. Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks
oh ya never been swamped or abused this is my 69 year old dad’s Atv. Only has like 300 is miles.

newbe with ignition question

Hello all
Last week I lost the key to my 2000 foreman 400 in the woods. I found out that if i cut off the ignition wires that I could hot wire it….so i proceeded to cut off the ignition switch. there are 4 wires, red, black, red w/black stripe, pink. I tied together the red and black and i could start the engine with the starter. Got home and re-spliced wires back together with switch and used my backup key but the starter will not turn over. but when I use the pull start, it will fire up. Not sure what the problem is…any ideas???