Frank Angerano

Welcome to Quadcrazy. My rancher acts up from time to time. I put a fresh plug in and its good to go. Make sure your fuel delivery is ok and that your gas cap vent is working properly. If it acts up open the gas cap and see if the problem goes away. If so its vapor lock and order a new cap. Other then that to me it sounds like a fuel starved issue that happens after some riding? Maybe a filter or your injector may be acting up after it gets hot etc. Start with the simple stuff first. As far as keeping up with the machine i would say the standard oil, lube and filter and your air filter changes. One often over looked item is the differential fluids. Make sure that once a year you check the fluids and change if your logging big time riding hours. Side note: Write it down!!! Go buy a small book and keep a log! If you ever want to upgrade to a new atv its a lot easier to sell a machine with documentation! And if you keep your machine its great to remember what and when you did a repair or maintenance!

Good idea and then you can adjust everything properly. Study the manual while your at work if you can.

Lol thanks! One of about 10 different i have. Never have enough of this sh**. @MarkinAR was that explination clear ? Anything to add to that to help this member out ?

Ok so that wire your pointing to should be the main ground to your battery? If so loosen it up or take it out and clean and put it back. Check and clean all grounds while ur at it. As far as the relay goes the contacts could not be making contact, those two black wires completes the push button circuit. Try again to jump them together and see if the push button works. You may also want to take that push button control off of the handlebar and make sure its not full of water or corroded inside. I would also identify the color wires on the push button and do a continuity test on the button to see that its working. Continuity testing: set your tester to the symbol that looks like a horse shoe or the symbol that looks like a volume control. Either setting will work. Take the two leads of the tester and touch them together. The horseshoe setting will show numbers the volume looking symbol will make the tester ring. Depending on the tester. So all you have to do now to do a continuity test is lets say you want to test a doorbell. You take the two test leads and put one on one screw of the door bell wire connection and the other lead on the other screw. Press the door bell and the tester will ring or show a reading. If so you have continuity! So treat the start button like a doorbell and test it. As far as the green wire on the relay, put a tester lead on the green wire and the other lead on the ground. Put the engine in gear and test. You should not get a reading. Put the engine in neutral and you should get a reading. If so the neutral safety switch is working. I hope this make sense? Pics of a tester attached.

Thew way it looks to me is if you pull that valve cover you will be able to adjust valves. Only one way to find out so pull the cover and lets see. Snap a few pics after its off.

King quad is Suzuki. Brute force i have only seen and its just a matter time before i have one in my possession.

Nice! Nothing better then adding a new deck! Lots of lighting brother add lots of lighting. I like lights in the steps too!

I doubt both bulbs on the dash are bad but you never know. Pull and check the bulbs and the sockets that they sit in for rust. Rusted out thingy - not sure the name of it: neutral safety relay Brown - 11.85 (should have 12v+) 11.85 is ok Black - 11.85 (good) once relay closes it sends that 11.85 through to the next black wire. Green - nothing take a continuity reading from the green wire on the relay to ground. If you don't have continuity then the green wire is not grounded. Put a jumper from black - on battery to that green wire. The relay should click closed and dash lights should come on. Other Black - will get 11.85 after relay closes. Take the main black wire from the battery and trace it to where it bolts up to the frame and remove, clean the frame with sandpaper and reconnect. You could have a dirty ground connection.

Honestly the more i look around i don't see Kawasaki atv's as much as i do other brands. Maybe its just me?

Sweet @Ajmboy so im not alone! I was thinking about doing some tomatoes 🍅 this year and your post just made my mind up!

So with this mess going on outside and the stay at home thing happening i wanted to ask who's getting what done around there house, apartment and property or toys? I honestly cannot believe what my wife and i have accomplished over the last few weeks. Unfortunately we have worked ourselves out of work!!! I have to give all the credit to my daughter for the below listed work. She came to me a few weeks back and said daddy since we are stuck in the house can we do my room over. I was in a keep away from everyone hunker down and lets just get through this Coronavirus mess. She changed the entire direction of our mood and how we would push through this. I have painted all the kids rooms and did a make over per say for each of there rooms. While the painting sh** was out i decided to continue and paint the moldings over with one coat of semi gloss in the entire house. After that we decided to tear the closets and drawers apart and sort out all clothing, donate what we are not keeping etc. I picked up a couple of shoe racks to organize my sneaker collection from BJ's $20 bucks for a 3 tier rack. Cleaned every nook and cranny of the house, windows, walls, radiators, ceiling fans you name it including pulling the furniture out and getting behind everything! (Scary back there) lol. Sh** we even did the inside of the oven with easy off! That stuff is no joke btw..... I assure you we are clean people but after pulling the furniture out and the oven and refrigerator i have to say we need to do better with that sh**. We decided to go to the back yard and see what we could do. I went ahead and painted the foundation walls, added mulch and set the furniture up, bbq included. I added some cool light stringers across the yard as well from Amazon. We are looking at what to do in the front of the house next. We made a list and tackle a little each day, Saturday and Sunday are big task days. Im still working so afternoon tasks are maybe an hour or two each day. We have been very productive to say the least. I feel like this is the perfect time to make the best of a bad situation and it keeps our mind off of the sh** going on in the world while we work. This may sound like a lot but making a list and tackling realistic goals at the end of each day works well. Plus a lot of 🍺 and 🍷!!!!! The kids have been helping out big time and we try to keep it fun. We hopefully will never have the chance to do this again but i was wondering who's doing what if anything at all. Our regards go out to anyone that have been affected by this virus weather it be family or friends. I recommend making early trips to Home Depot and BJ's and the grocery stores to stay away from crowds and lines, its a ghost town early in the morning. Believe it or not that Suzuki Eiger is fixed but still needs to be put back together and here i am on Quadcrazy asking who's doing what around the house but the Suzuki can wait for a little while. Keep ya head up and stay motivated!!!!

Agreed....

Lol my man @06kfx440 !!!! I say we set up a trip! Lord knows we could use it after all this madness!

Definitely a clutch, not expensive and you can 100% do it yourself.

I was always tinkering/working with my father in the shop. I learned HVAC by the time i was 16 and i mean fully knowledgeable. He taught me well and I understood it very easily. Then it was electrical troubleshooting on compressors and relays etc and it took off from there. Then i got into everything, heck i would be a billionaire today had my father not passed away. We were doing things with LED lights in the late 80's and early 90's. He told me they are the future and will be in every single light fixture on the planet! He said we will open a company and be very wealthy down the road! Boy was he right. He passed in 92 when i was 21 of cancer and I had to get a serious job and help support the family (Youngest of 9 kids). I was racing the amateur bracket and about to race for Kawasaki team green in the 250cc class (gave that up) and the rest is history!!! I worked from that point on supporting the fam with the help of my sisters and played with race cars and a ton of Suzuki GSXR engines when i had free time. Things would be very different for me had my father lived longer but thats life!! Not one single drop of sports in his body so we never did sports and i would not change one thing about it. I would not know half the sh** i know now if we played sports lol

I could not remember but i think you may be right on the white wire @MarkinAR Either way one of the three should have power.

Mine was a little older but my problem was in the throttle control on the handlebars. The rev limiter was soaking wet and killed the spark. I separated the wires and she ran like a champ however sometimes the quad fired up and other times it had no spark at all during the troubleshooting process. Double check your cdi is not wet or cracked in any way, moisture gets in and kills the spark.

From the images you posted it looks to me that the valve cover or top end cover is held down with some bolts? Have you tried to remove them? I marked them in red.

I was years ago. Back into it the last few years with my oldest. We built a Tetris game about a year ago and play with some remote control stuff.

Very nice looking machine!!

Ok the brown should be the hot 12+. Have you tried to jump the two bigger wires on the relay? The ones with the nuts on the relay ?

It could be on the lower portion of the cylinder head at the base. It could be the seal behind the water pump like you initially said. Problem is where to start????? Pick the least invasive path first which i think is the seal you mentioned.

Lol jacob u kill me brother. How did you not know??? Lol.

Check your regulator/rectifier and see if it gets hot when the atv starts to act up. Could be as simple as that. Its cheap enough to replace.

Does the valve cover come off exposing the top end ? Exposing the valve springs and rockers ?