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Post by: Mike_D on March 17, 2011, 10:15:24 AM
I got a 05 500HO, and its pretty much rock solid. plows food plot, blows snow, its my maintance machine of choice. Wife has a Suzuki King Quad 450 (07), its a good machine as well (so far).
500HO is carburator while the 450 is EFI. The problem I've found is if the battery is dead, I can still pull start the 500, but the 450 won't... (no electronics to the EFI?) that might be something to think about if you run the batteries down alot.
Post by: 7mag. on March 17, 2011, 10:49:28 AM
A few years ago, my straps broke and my sportsman came off the trailer doing 40mph. It did somersaults down the highway. I thought it was going to be totaled. Didn't bend an axle or the frame at all. I replace some of the plastics, the racks and the handlebars, just like new. Very tough machine's.
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Post by: Jason on March 19, 2011, 03:39:07 PM
I have a 500 sitting in my garage, it has been a big pile of junk! For lack of other words :chuckle: It has like 180 miles on it, and it has been broke down 4 times. Right now it is locked in reverse :bash: Sometimes you get good one and sometimes you get Junk!!! I won't own another Polaris.what year is yours?
Post by: turkey buster on March 19, 2011, 07:57:58 PM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 19, 2011, 08:13:28 PM
I have a 500 sitting in my garage, it has been a big pile of junk! For lack of other words :chuckle: It has like 180 miles on it, and it has been broke down 4 times. Right now it is locked in reverse :bash: Sometimes you get good one and sometimes you get Junk!!! I won't own another Polaris.what year is yours?
I would have to look back, I know I was in high school when we got it. I think my first 2 years. So like 01-03, If any of you guys are masters of the 4wheelers and want to help me get mine back running. I could for sure offer you a beer or 2. I have been so pissed off about it. It has sat in my garage for a year,and I have not touched it. To many problems for a 8k machine. With such low miles and hours. It has not hardly even worked hard for us. Just riding fences and hauling a few items. Nothing very heavy. It almost left me stranded down in a crap hole, way down in a canyon around mt Spokane.
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Post by: 400out on March 19, 2011, 10:12:18 PM
Hard to scrap somthing I have over 10k in. I plan on gettin it fixed and trading it in. :IBCOOL:have you thought of backing it off the trailer and saying I want to trade this in :chuckle: :chuckle:
Post by: GoldTip on March 19, 2011, 10:20:44 PM
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 19, 2011, 11:00:45 PM
Hard to scrap somthing I have over 10k in. I plan on gettin it fixed and trading it in. :IBCOOL:have you thought of backing it off the trailer and saying I want to trade this in :chuckle: :chuckle:
MANY TIMES MY FRIEND :chuckle: I try to be a little more honest then that :chuckle:
Post by: Jason on March 25, 2011, 11:13:00 AM
This time Its locked up in reverse. I was going down the road. I heard a pop and it kicked in neutral. Would not go into drive, but pulled it back into reverse and now its locked in reverse. :dunno: I have tried for the life of me to get it out but am afraid. I will break it if I mess with it any harder then I have. Had to ride it about 1 mile in reverse back to the truck. :yike: THAT IS HARDER THEN YOU THINK :lol4: I use to be a Polaris junkie, but after this one I don't think I will ever touch one again. I have over 2500.00 in repairs already into a machine with 180 miles on it. When we first got it, It would over heat and shut off on us. It was under warranty at the time, and we had it back and fourth to the shop 4 times to get that problem fixed. If that wasn't under warranty. I would have 15k into the darn thing. I have had 4wheelers all my life and snow machines to. Never Have I had such a lemon.Thats the same quad I had, That generation of sportsman had crappy shifter boxes on them.
Take the right side plastic cover off between the seat and front fender to expose the shifter box.
Now you can either grab the two linkages coming from the shifter box to the tranny and manually try
to shift them (its not easy) and get it unbound (this is what i would do in the field) or you can take
the top of the shifter box off to expose the shifter rod and then line up the two shifter holes in the
box before you put the top back on. While you have it apart you can check the fluid level in the shifter box.
I'm going to Goldendale here in a week or so to visit family, if you dont get it fixed I would be happy to help.
Here's the one I had.