2006 Arctic Cat 400 Only Starts in Neutral

[ROXANNERHIGDON]

Turn on bike start fine but only in neutral.  Cannot start in gear like most bikes do when you haul in on brake lever.   Also  when i turn key forward to turn lights on bike shuts off and wont start.  Have to turn key back to on position and then will start.  Can anyone suggest what problem can be.

[MarkinAR]

If there a switch on the brake lever, then that switch is likely bad.  Should be a two wire and you can check it for continuity with a multimeter.  I usually just bypass the neutral start though so it will start in any gear by grounding out the neutral safety switch at the case.  But that does come with the warning that it'll start in gear....

Second issue....if you turn the key forward another position and it dies, most likely the ignition switch is bad.  You can check the phases of that switch also with a multimeter for continuity.