So…… 1. Drained oil, and got water out, 2. Replaced card with new, 3. Replaced cam and rocker (prob. Original problem), 4. Compression test 90 lbs., 5.spark yes with black kill wire removed. Now when I try to start the best I’ve gotten is backfire through card with pretty little fire. Fuel pump doesn’t seem to be working as I’ve tried to manually work it with vaccum but shouldn’t keep it from starting as carb bowel is full from gravity feed.

No secret we don’t get much time to do "fun" stuff as oldest daughter plays volleyball/softball for school (she started 9th grade last fall and played jv and varsity for both sports) and last fall got asked to play up on a 17u travel volleyball team and the hs varsity coaches 18u travel softball team (mainly comprised of the varsity players to get a jump on the season). Been doing travel ball bother sports since brooke was in 5th grade but never realized how intense it got practice and travel schedule wiset until we were asked to play up…wow. literally year round training for softball with our indoor facility, and volleyball only gets time off due to softball season, but the girls will practice one sport after school, then another sport in evening..busy.

Last night was season opener for school ball and brooke got some pics in newspaper and local news story so she’s pretty happy lol. But just glad to see the years of sacrifice on all our parts have really paid off and she’s become an incredible athlete. Was nominated to all star team during nationals in july, but we may be heading to maryland for east coast tourniment (travel club girls again once high school state is finished). Busy busy busy all the time. Think this year I’ve only burned a couple gallons of fuel in the quad to date:( was hoping to break in our new to us camper but weather doesn’t look to play nice at all all weekend…so probably no riding once again.

Link to local news story, if ya got 1 minute to watch it’s pretty fun to watch the triple play go down, not often you get to see that, luckily the other teams runners were hell bent on running and weren’t thinking lol.

Triple play helps secure East softball win over CR Washington – KWWL – Eastern Iowa Breaking News, Weather, Closings

Local news online picture of brooke sliding home for our first point of the game

Local newspaper sports opening page for us with daughter covering 1st (she plays 2nd base)

Now that my x2 is ten years old, the plastic is starting to fade. Is there any way to brighten it back up? My other thought is to camo wrap it , in which case I’ll need to paint the under side of fenders( they are currently red). What is the best paint to use to stick to plastic? Thanks guys

I did the carb kit including needle & seat , new fuel pump and turn off the petcock and run the bowl dry after every ride.

Where the hell is this fuel in the oil coming from ??? :banghead::banghead::banghead:

I have a 94 Polaris 300. When I pulled the rope gas came out the pull rope hole so I took it apart and drained it. My buddy told me I need a crank seal and a new flywheel. Would I be able to use a flywheel from a 400.

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I have a 2002 Sportsman 400, which has been a great machine and I have never had any trouble with it. The battery went out on me last summer, and because it is in storage all winter I decided not to replace it until this year… well then I ended up buying a house so I needed it to plow, here is where the problem started.

I was out plowing with the quad and without the battery you had to rev the engine to get the winch to work, not sure if this is normal or not, but I assumed the machine pulled the extra juice from the battery if need be so went with it. I got about 5 passes in and coolant started leaking everywhere under pressure. No hot light was on (unsure if this model has one?). Anyway I let it cool and put it away and never looked at it until this spring because of the time I have had.

One key thing is that I don’t remember hearing the fan kick on before this happened, but can’t be certain. My main question would be if I was running lights and winch, if having a completely shot battery would prevent the fan from running?

Flash forward to yesterday. I took the front rack on, filled it back up with coolant and let it idle in the yard for at least 10 minutes. I felt the thermostat open and the upper hose got hot, then the radiator got hot etc. Still no fan, but no hot light either. I have never had the hot light come on on this machine, but I assume it has one? I didn’t want to harm anything so shut it down.

I tried to test the fan by hooking a battery maintainer lead to the fan direct and hooking that to a 12v car battery with key on (no battery in bike) and it did nothing. Is this proper test procedure or do I still need to jump the sensor? I tested right at the 6" wire lead that came off the fan.

I am getting a new battery tonight and charging and testing again, but the local shop swears up and down that is not the issue, and also swears it is never as easy as a radiator cap, so I think they just want my money.

Side note what is the best way to burp the air out of the lines on this machine? The filler hose and lower hose all come together at once which makes it kinda hard… I still do not have coolant in the overflow yet, but the radiator is showing full.

Thanks for the help.

HCED NO:51 it is a hot cam

Hey everybody. i was hoping to pick your brains, as i have already tried all my area dealers. i have been having an issue with my 08 650 outty. the coolant keeps puking out of the overflow. i was told a bad head gasket would cause this and to do a pressure test which i had done and showed it to be fine. so i replaced the t-stat, thinking it might be the next logical choice…to no avail. whenever i first start riding, just before the fan kicks on for the first time, it pukes out whatever is in the overflow bottle. it did it once more just before the fan kicked on a second time, then for the rest of the ride was fine. checked the level in the rad when i got home and it was down about an inch. i left it alone. thought maybe i had just overfilled it….but then it did it the next ride. it just does it at the beginning of the ride then everything is normal. any ideas? could it be as stupid as a bad cap? i should probably tell you i have the rad mounted on the front rack(BRP kit) so i can see how much is flowing back and forth between the rad and overflow. when i first start riding and it starts warming up, its almost a freeflow into the resi, then it squirts out, fan kicks on and it stops. then it goes back and forth like normal. i’m supposed to go on a 3 day camping trip soon and need to get this resolved. any input would be helpful. thanks

Just bought a 2000 Scrambler 400 4×4. It wasn’t exactly what I was looking for but I know it’s history and my buddy gave me a crazy deal. Needs 4×4 work, but when it’s fixed it should be good to go. I’ve been thinking that whatever quad I got needed to plow my driveway (3 cars wide, maybe 40-50′ long). I know that you aren’t really supposed to tow or drive super slow with these things because of belt wear. I don’t think I’d get stuck too often (4×4 plus I can get chains if needed), but will I do any more damage than probably frying a belt every few years? I have replaced these belts before and they aren’t very expensive and are easy enough to do. Before I go buying a plow kit I want to make sure I’m not going to be harming anything else.

Thanks!