JacobSlabach

if you had the regular steel wheels on your sportsman then you will need different rims or longer studs. having the lug only 3 or 4 turns on the stud will not work as you will probably strip the stud when you put a breaker bar on to torque them down. diameter of the studs should be the same.

i would start simple- if it just cut out one day when you were riding, i would say it was an electrical connection issue. i would have tested spark immediately but you cant go back now lol. a good thing to remember is the basic components the engine needs to run: Spark, Air, Fuel, Compression. too much or too little of any of these can restrict the engines performance. i always check the basic stuff first. check spark and compression, check that gas is getting into the carb, change the spark plug, check air filter, check air ducts from air duct to carb and from carb to engine. check the exhaust too- loose studs can cause a loss of back-pressure on the valves but i think you would hear it rattling if it were loose. best thing is to keep common sense in your vocabulary and take a break every once in a while and dont get too focused on just one aspect of what you think is wrong. ive been in situations like this and in the end there is always a reasonable explanation. best to step back and consider and rule out all possibilities in order of easiness to prevent hair loss

oof yea i wouldnt doo that... on the other hand i say free for all on utility atvs... my buddy and i had 8 people on a sportsman 500 once.. fun times👍

@Eddie Rahm i have no clue what youre talking about- could you post some pictures? is your model one of the ones with the bolt through the rear end that holds the two axles together?

hey @Aaron Drost welcome to the forum. the reason your sportsman is bogging in reverse is a safety feature installed by polaris- see below Polaris has incorporated a safety feature on all their 4wd models. This feature, which is operational all the time when reverse is selected, will limited engine power and cut out the front wheel drive unless you push the “override” button. the reverse override is a yellow button on your left handlebar switch pod along with the headlight selector and kill switch. hope this helps! also sorry for the late response, just now saw your topic

looks to me like the skirt was touching something in there😆 haha i dont know 2 stroke tho

this works too🤭😆👍

as to riding atvs up rams into the bed of a pickup, i do this too although we usually trailer my bikes places. three things never to do when loading an atv with ramps is: never go to fast up the ramps (you wont have a rear window in your truck) never stop on the ramps and then try to start off again (the ramps will no longer be under your atv and we all know how gravity works) never miss the ramps (no duh but way to many of us dont know how to aim soooo) its important to know your quad inside and out as loading with ramps is a more involved activity and its important to keep a even throttle to avoid busting your butt and ruining your bike. so i would agree for beginners, either go buy a trailer or make sure you video it so when you screw up the rest of those beginners out there might be able to learn from your stupidity

even now when im completely comfortable on any atv in any terrain, i ALWAYS take it slow when on an unfamiliar bike or in a new place. there have been too many close calls where ive run up on a unknown ditch or sink hole in a field and have come close to flipping twice. Once i get acquainted with what im sitting on and the terrain, then i let her lose and the fun begins!😁 even now when im completely comfortable on any atv in any terrain, i ALWAYS take it slow when on an unfamiliar bike or in a new place. there have been too many close calls where ive run up on a unknown ditch or sink hole in a field and have come close to flipping twice. Once i get acquainted with what im sitting on and the terrain, then i let her lose and the fun begins!😁

ahaha this sounds so much like my Yamaha warrior its not funny- put a gasket kit in mine and not three miles later, boom she gone. gotta do a full engine rebuild on her now🥴

Rhino needs to forget about making unbreakable axles and start making ig switches👍😁

Ima design heat resistant super glue that can withstand up to 500 degrees so people can use it on head gaskets and stuff👍👍

Maybe try a better head gasket and some of that liquid gasket with it? Heck idk maybe throw some super glue in there too ya never know😂👍👍👍 sounds like my 350 warrior..blew its head gasket and also was leaking oil into the airbox thru the carb..but somehow still wasnt smoking lol

Looks cool, @dee004. My concern would be how much stress they put on your front end when riding through mud or water, and if your fourman is too heavy for them. I believe the atv in that video looks like a recon which are SUPER light. Could be wrong though. Worth a shot for sure! Definitely couldn't hurt to give them a try.

Oh that happened to me on my 800. I thought I blew a belt, but the rear drive shaft had blown up and dropped out of the atv lol. Heres a pic. Cost 80 for a new shaft works good now. I had noticed that the old drive shaft appeared to be to short as it only reached half way up the rear splines

@marek porowski man that sucks. Ik what you mean tho, I rarely find time or a place to ride my atvs

So turns out I still got this bike. One problem after another on it. So I bought the stock airbox and air filter put that on and ran good. Jb welded the hole in this side of the engine...but then I noticed the crankcase seal is leaking oil, and I was riding it one day and it started the old popped with throttle and started to try and seize up on me. I had just added oil ( due to the leak) so I thought I was good on that Turns out its spitting oil out the carb into the airbox as well as leaking out the crankcase. Looks like I'll have to rebuild the top and bottom end...again. not sure what went wrong? Lol. It still runs good cold. I get the weirdest atvs... my old 500 ran great on diesel fuel and this bike runs good for ab 5 mins with no oil 🤣🤣🤣

Had you figured this one out yet@Barry Troxtell? I say either it's a corroded connection (either a fuse or a plug for the pod) or moisture got inside the pod and shorted the whole thing like on mine. Let's hope it's the first cause those pods run 200 plus $$$

Can you post some pics? Interested to see what all that looks like!

Helpful info here, I have an 07 sportsman 800 and it was different for the older models. @David Miller, did this help you resolve your issues? What was the code for?

Hahaha I was think 'heck this dude got ripped off" till I saw that 'SP'. Those 570 so models are SWEET with eps and all. Gonna be a solid bike for you brother. But yea a 2017 570 SP is definitely worth that.

That's one of the best looking used belts I've eve seen! As far as replacing them, I blow my belts before i change them. I tried changing the belt in my 04 sportsman 500 once and couldn't tell any difference. Sense, I blew the belt on my 07 sportsman 800 and put the 15 yr old belt off the 500 in the 700 been running great ever since. I see no need to replace belts till they're in little chucks(it blew). As for which belt to get, it just needs to be for your model and year. I bought a $40 belt off Amazon and it works as well or better than oem. The big no-ons to avoid are letting water into the clutches (gets wet and slips) and sitting the atv for years (belt dry rots)

Got it done. So I ordered a front end lower boot and it fit great! Bought off amazon. Heres some pics. Super easy to disassemble these cv axles if you have the right tools. I bought a cv clamp tightener/cremper and a set of circlip pliers and pics and swapped a lower boot in prolly 2 hours or less (including disassembly and reassembly of the atv. You can see in the first pic I was able to clamp the stock boot with a pipe clamp, but the lower end came apart and lost the clamp. these pics are kinda in order of how I replaced the boot Never mind they didnt upload in the right order

Nothing that I see.. not even serial numbers

But I havnt found what kinda axles is on it so idk what I'll do when I break an axle.