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Outlander L 500 with LED bulbs!

Swapped out my regular bulbs for some LED’s. I really like them, they are just as bright as HID’s, and there is no headaches with ballasts and whatnot. Ordered them off eBay from Formula J-87. Negotiated the price with them and everything. Quick customer service and surprisingly fast shipping considering I’m in Ontario and they came from somewhere near Sam Francisco. $40 American, $10 shipping! They ate hs1, dual beam, 20 watt low beam, 28 watt high beam. You get two bulbs in the kit. The ones you get are h4. An hs1 is a low powered h4 so they fit. Because they’re LED’s, they’re already low powered so no worries there. I got 6000k colour temperature, any higher and they’ll start looking blue, which I didn’t want. However they do come with a tinting film to make them the colour you want! Also a built in heat sink. …they take a little mcguyvering to get in but they look great!

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Winch

I just bought a new 2015 rancher about a month ago and I bought a winch and hooked it up the install is up to par when I went to test it by hooking up to a tree with the wheeler in neutral my wheeler shuts off any ideas??

Most purchased parts

Me and a friend are opening a small atv shop. We are buying some used atv and bikes to fix up and flip. We are also wanting to offer parts. I was curious what parts is best to keep in stock? We are trying to not go into debt with a truck load of stock.

We are leaning toward bearings, filters, chains, oils, ball joints, brakes then few add ons for some of the more popular bikes in our area.

Any input would be greatly appreciated

2013 Sportsman 850 XP EPS overheating HELP please

I rode recently and experienced the hot engine icon along with the engine bogging down. I stopped and noticed the fan not coming on at all. Very hot day and rode approx. 15 miles. I wired the fan directly and it runs fine, and continued to ride another 35 miles with no issues at all. Rad fluid normal level.

All fuses look fine, and I tried swapping the relays from the brake lights with the Fan relay and no change, so I am assuming the relays are fine.

One other area that confused me, is another small stainless sensor near the top of the fuse area that has two posts (one stainless and one copper, that plugs into wiring.

I read that if I unplug the temp sensor the fan should run at all times while the engine is running to determine if the sensor is bad, but I have no idea where the sensor is located whatsoever ? Any suggestions are appreciated!

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