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TRX 300 FW Front Wheel Locked Up???

I was riding our 1995 TRX 300 FW 4×4 and heard a noise in the front left wheel area and a few minutes later the front left wheel locked up and dragged for about 10 feet. I stopped and got off and didn’t see anything unusual. I did just replace the knuckle bushing on that corner so it was all torn down recently. It rides fine otherwise. It does have a Warn 424 unit and it was in 2wd when it happened. The 424 seems to work properly after this occurred. Any ideas why that front wheel locked up??

TIA

TRX 300 FW Front Wheel Locked Up???

I was riding our 1995 TRX 300 FW 4×4 and heard a noise in the front left wheel area and a few minutes later the front left wheel locked up and dragged for about 10 feet. I stopped and got off and didn’t see anything unusual. I did just replace the knuckle bushing on that corner so it was all torn down recently. It rides fine otherwise. It does have a Warn 424 unit and it was in 2wd when it happened. The 424 seems to work properly after this occurred. Any ideas why that front wheel locked up??

TIA

2017 1000r XTP out the door price

I got a quote on an 1000r XTP with $1900 in accessories. He’s giving me 13,999 for the bike and 1,520 for the accessories. $5000 down 4.59% 60 month loan.

Decent? I did check another place and they can’t come close to it.

I’m feeling pretty good about this but wanted to check to see if anyone had the chance to see any numbers for themselves.

2017 1000r XTP out the door price

I got a quote on an 1000r XTP with $1900 in accessories. He’s giving me 13,999 for the bike and 1,520 for the accessories. $5000 down 4.59% 60 month loan.

Decent? I did check another place and they can’t come close to it.

I’m feeling pretty good about this but wanted to check to see if anyone had the chance to see any numbers for themselves.

Shooting “gangsta style”

Yep ….just what the title says. I was driving down my private road yesterday when I noticed the same stray cat again close to the house. I shot one 9 mm round close to scare him away. Stupid cat ran to the corner of the car port. This time I had to shoot gansta style across the hood of my truck because I was too lazy to get out. Bam! That one scared him off. So I decide to enter my carport/barn to get a shovel so I can repair ruts that have eroded from all the rain we have had ( North of Houston). I smelled gas, hmmmm? Walked to another room to get the shovel and all my equipment are fine and so are all the gas cans, hmmmm? Walking out of the last doorway and it smells strong now! Hmmmm? Walking toward the four 55 gallon barrels I store fuel in for emergencies and I find my leak. I missed the cat by 15 feet and shot a hole thru my wall and thru one barrel about a foot from the ground! Oh Lord I say. Get this barrel outa here quick. I decide to lay it on it’s side so the air in the barrel will be up where I just grazed it. I guess I laid it down too quickly and the two and a half inch plug popped off allowing to glug, glug on my shoes and floor. Jesus! I run to turn off my breaker to my water well that has about 5 gallons of gas under the control box! Done. So I grab my 2 wheeled dolly and tote it to a 5 inch cement ledge. I can’t get it up the square ledge, all the while spraying 2 9mm holes of gas everywhere. I man handle it over the ledge, use the dolly To get it AWAY from everything. I grab sticks from the drive way and plug the holes. Whew……now I can breath and think about this. I grab my hand pump for the gas and install it ( cross threaded because I’m hurrying) . Well all can say is my truck, my car, my four wheeler, my riding mower, my two empty gas cans and my Ford 8 N tractor are full of gas now! The level in the barrel is below the holes so every thing is ok now. Like I said already…..I don’t shoot so good with my left hand "gansta style" Oh! perhaps the worst part of this story…….I was scaring off my own cat! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shooting “gangsta style”

Yep ….just what the title says. I was driving down my private road yesterday when I noticed the same stray cat again close to the house. I shot one 9 mm round close to scare him away. Stupid cat ran to the corner of the car port. This time I had to shoot gansta style across the hood of my truck because I was too lazy to get out. Bam! That one scared him off. So I decide to enter my carport/barn to get a shovel so I can repair ruts that have eroded from all the rain we have had ( North of Houston). I smelled gas, hmmmm? Walked to another room to get the shovel and all my equipment are fine and so are all the gas cans, hmmmm? Walking out of the last doorway and it smells strong now! Hmmmm? Walking toward the four 55 gallon barrels I store fuel in for emergencies and I find my leak. I missed the cat by 15 feet and shot a hole thru my wall and thru one barrel about a foot from the ground! Oh Lord I say. Get this barrel outa here quick. I decide to lay it on it’s side so the air in the barrel will be up where I just grazed it. I guess I laid it down too quickly and the two and a half inch plug popped off allowing to glug, glug on my shoes and floor. Jesus! I run to turn off my breaker to my water well that has about 5 gallons of gas under the control box! Done. So I grab my 2 wheeled dolly and tote it to a 5 inch cement ledge. I can’t get it up the square ledge, all the while spraying 2 9mm holes of gas everywhere. I man handle it over the ledge, use the dolly To get it AWAY from everything. I grab sticks from the drive way and plug the holes. Whew……now I can breath and think about this. I grab my hand pump for the gas and install it ( cross threaded because I’m hurrying) . Well all can say is my truck, my car, my four wheeler, my riding mower, my two empty gas cans and my Ford 8 N tractor are full of gas now! The level in the barrel is below the holes so every thing is ok now. Like I said already…..I don’t shoot so good with my left hand "gansta style" Oh! perhaps the worst part of this story…….I was scaring off my own cat! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009 420 ES – Crank no start, fuel injection

Hi,

I bought a 2009 420 ES from a guy that supposedly just needed put back together. After running into a dozen "unknown" issues, it’s finally back together, but the injector won’t squirt fuel. Looking at the wiring diagram, the two wires go to (1) the pcm and (2) the "J/C 1", through a 24p connector.

Can anybody identify what the J/C 1 is? Also, the gear indicator just says "-", which stays solid and doesn’t flash. MIL is off. The neutral light is off, even though I’m fairly sure it’s in neutral. I’m not sure what that means, if it’s causing the computer to cut the injector pulse to prevent it from running over somebody?

I’m at a loss and if anybody with more experience with these can give me a pointer I’ll gladly take your lead and run with it! 🙂

Before it’s asked:
Yes, the only issue at this point seems to be the fuel injector not squirting. It’s getting fuel (repaired missing fuel pump connector & clogged petcock) to the injector. When I manually jump the injector it squirts fuel. It does not squirt fuel when cranking.

A splash of fuel into the intake will let it run for a short period.