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First actual WTF breakdown on my 22 CFMoto Cforce800XC Id been running around all day in the hills before this and had just stopped and fueld up my Bush Bike, stopped for a beer at the Kings Inn and headed home I had enough time to work on gathering material for a project at home and got to it. Fortunately I was in my upper backyard when the bike went dead. Died. No lights. No dash. All the way in my upper backyard. Nothing. I was able to dead stick it all the way (around 500 yds) down the hill right up to my garage and started poking around. I found that my Main ignition fuse was popped. Went to stick one in and it popped again. So I have a short. So I started feeling the wires out and looking for obvious issues. Then I start checking components, unplugging them one by one to see if that negated the short condition. Just as I was about to accept scheduling a trip to the shop, I decided to check the oil pressure buzzer which is part of the ignition circuitry. I unplugged it, and no short. Plugged it back in, and the short was back. I unplugged it, turned the bike on and everything came on the fuel pump pressured up. The dash cycled through a reset display, settled down and I started the bike. I turned it off and feeling my way along started tracking down the buzzer. Well. The stupid thing had fallen out of the dash niche, worked its way through the little gap around the steering column with it's 18 inch leads and had landed on the front exhaust pipe, melted through causing a direct wiring short and direct short to the engine/chassis as well and took out the primary fuse. Of course I figured it out after I'd stripped all my personal gear off so it wasnt in the way at the shop. I was able to shorten the leads and take out the damaged section so it's functioning til I get a new one. I still have to put the panels and racks and everything back together but it's running with no faults or errors and displaying the correct information. I'll take that for a first breakdown.

I have noticed harder steering on all my 4x4s, but they are all 20 years old, I have even taken the front off of one and regressed everything that I could grease and if it helped it was only minor, I think its just the nature of the beast, that's why the newer ones have a power steering option, my honda 2x4 is not nearly as hard to steer.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/131443/Polaris-Scrambler-500-4x4.html?page=77

Thanks, an air leak would make sense! Today I fired it up again and surprisingly it worked much better, the only difference was that I put some more gas in the tank, maybe it was almost running out yesterday... 🙈 I adjusted the idle screw a bit until I got an idle RPM that was ok, however the idle is not entirely "stable" in my opinion, nothing extreme but it's misfiring at times and acting slightly weird. Note that I find it slightly off, no extreme reving like in many recordings you can find of "bad" idle. I sprayed CRC 5-56 at the carb rubber connection to the engine, on both sides and everywhere, it didn't affect the idle. 🤔 I'll add recordings of the idle when it's warmed up, and also a recording when I take short ride speeding up, stopping etc. Didn't think of recording the cold start and idle Let me know what you think of the "clonk" noises etc, maybe it's to be expected? The carb and CDI is aftermarket btw, chinese ofc / Pär driving_about.mp4 idle_bayou.mp4

Just wondering if anyone would still be in for Biden now,knowing all what his team has done to this once great nation.