JacobSlabach

ok so the ecm appears to be fried. Can anyone give the specs for an ecm on a 04 sportsman 500?

lol yea I was going to clean thew crab anyway... I'm pretty sure its gummed up inside..

and I forgot to say that this is a Remington Special Edition, but its been wrecked or something cause it has green plastics on it now. heres a pic

no I did not see any burnt wires or smell anything... the cables sparked a good deal when I hooked them up to the battery (I only had the cables reversed for maybe about 5 or 10 minutes) I am pretty sure there is no fuse.

Got a 04 Sportsman 500 that wasnt running- owner said it needed a stater and a new battery. It ran rough (been sitting out in the weather for a while). A friend and I started by adding a new battery and it would start barely with the choke and his hand over the air-filter. I decided to install the new battery in the holder on the side. we had it on the rack because the old on was still in the bike. I tried to be nifty by turning the battery to put the terminals in an easier spot to get to, but forgot to reverse the cables too. In a sentence, I reversed the positive and negative on the battery like a dummy. When we discovered my mistake and corrected it, we turned on the bike, but the display did not light up and the key did not turn on the starter. jumping the solenoid worked the starter, so we thought the solenoid just burned up when I reversed the pos and neg... new solenoid and no difference. what have I burned up? Also, the shifter does not seem to do anything in the trans. it slides back and forth like its stripped in the trans. any help would be appreciated!! I think the biggest issue right now is the electrical.

lol yea but there is such a thing as abusing your bike (awesomely fun) and never fixing anything on it- just patching up to work and going speeds over 70mph for a long period of time and just cooking the motor....(my friend does this) yea. exactly.👍👍👍😎

If oil can get out, mud and other crap can get in. especially if its a cv boot

yea this same guy posted a link on another thread that was about the same... be careful! There are service manuals on this site if thats what you are looking for.

what he said...

I agree. You might as well use lock tight since your the one assembling it.

okiedokie.

I wish...

so which revolution do I set the valve clearance on?

I have never ridden a 2 stroke anything so I better not say too much not knowing anything about 2 strokes... I've always herd that 4-strokes are all around better and hence have avoided 2-strokes... I've heard that 2 doesnt stay cool as well and hence has overheating issues after a longer ride...? And 2s only get but so big where as 4s go to 1000cc, that will always win over a 2, but I wouldn't know much other than that...? please correct me if I'm wrong

thanks for that reply, Frank Angerano! I did not know what causes a stater to fail.

I had a friend that has a Honda recon 250 es and he coudnt get the bike out of reverse into drive without revving the bike and slamming it into drive before it got going to fast... I adjusted the idle (it was idling wayyy too fast) and problem solved. dunno if this is your problem but if its not getting down to that good 'ol putt putt idle, u might be keeping too much friction in your clutch causing tension and hard gear change..

welcome!!!👍 nice bike!! those older foot shift bikes are such beasts for their size...

I would do that to if I were in your shoes. I am getting an older sportsman 500 with the square headlights.... I'm just gonna do away with the halogen crap and replace them with small light bars (soooo much more light and uses less juice)

got a friend with an 02 sportsman that has this same issue with the ETC and he has never really figured it out...(he doesnt really care about the bike so he just keeps his thumb on the throttle when he wants it running- a pain for me to run tho since im not used to never coming to a complete idle..lol could you expound on this more maybe? what is the ETC? and what does it do? oh never mind thats not the problem.

LOL thats how I feel about my bike rn My friend has a sportsman 500 that he abused badly (jumping, jacked up carb to make it 70+ mph, mudding with no snorkel, winding it out, u name it) anyway it seems that whenever we go riding, we always come back early, and towing his bike.... This happen much with you?

ooooooo🤢 ok so how do I know when I'm checking the valves on the compression stroke rather than the combustion stroke? I'm supposed to adjust the valves on the combustion stroke right? And thanks for the vid! really helpful

oh gotcha. dont worry about it then. I dont know how to help you there... not really a tech nerd..

Grizzlsy are great! (Kodiaks are better)

so I watched the video again. Everything is exactly the same on my bike as what he's saying, and I adjusted the valves just like he did. I never knew that the was a compression srtoke and a fire stroke, I thought it all happened in one revolution. So how do I know when Its compression and not fire? and sorry for my ignorance lol

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