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  2. Kill switch is centered and it was replaced 6 months ago. Swapped the cdi and no diff. Neutral light works as it should
  3. try putting old c.d.i. back in. check for kill switch not centered ?, make sure neutral light is lit on dash ?.
  4. Ok so the correct regulator is now installed. I cranked it over and no spark still. I swapped out the coils and ot made no difference. Now I'm back to head scratching
  5. Welcome to the forum! What is wrong with your meter exactly, I might be able to repair it for you if it’s not too bad? Can you post a brief description of what it’s doing and a few pictures with it powered up with your headlights turned on so it’s illuminated, if possible? I will send my contact information to your message box as well if you’d like to look into a repair -AKATV
  6. My Meter is out on my 2002 Honda Rancher.. Cant find one..
  7. Welcome aboard. Is it smoking? Have you tried upping the idle a bit with the knob on the bottom of the carb? And check and make sure your stator is charging with the machine running. Use a multimeter and make sure you are charging. If not, you might have a bad regulator.
  8. just guessing, lack of round up ?..lol.
  9. with it being 24 yrs old ?, its hard to narrow your issue down. the piston, or bore can be worn ?, the connecting rod can have play in it ?. wrist pin top at rod can be worn out ?, valves can be out of adjustment ?. really hard to tell you what it can be. the only way you will find out, is too tear the top end down, and inspect the piston, bore, valves, rings, connecting rod. BEFORE you tear it down !!. make sure to have a top end gasket kit, and a tube of yamabond or hondabond on hand !...DO NOT USE RTV SEALANT ANYWHERE ON THIS ENGINE !!!. i'll go out on a limb here, and say your piston, jug, connecting rod is worn out..one of these..or all 3 need to be fixed.
  10. I have a 2000 Honda foreman 450s 4w4. When I start it up with the choke on its fine but when I take it off it will idle then make clunking noise like the piston is slapping the jug when goes up then it will act like it's going to die. Sometimes it will and when it does my battery doesn't have enough power to turn the 4wheeler back over. I just got a battery tender fix that problem. Can anyone tell me what is going on please.
  11. that political stuff was supposed to remain on one thread, but like poison ive does, it spread. Oh! Well! welcome back Mister Clean..
  12. ah yes, preloading that sensor is something I often overlook when trying to help out with these. The Rubicons are different animals but I’m trying to learn!
  13. Double check that the angle sensor was installed correctly, a common problem. There's a lot of helpful help around here, hope you get it figured!
  14. Last week
  15. When your manually shifting it, when you push or pull the lever the internal spring should try to put the shaft back into the neutral state. With the shift reductions gears installed it will give drag on that, the reason I said to do it when they was out. If it "springs" back, that pin will be good. If it doesn't, you found a problem and time to tear into it.
  16. These critters again ? Are You sure you want to tangle with that bad attitude looking crew ? Credit for this pic goes to @56Sierra
  17. Thanks Jeep for your humility concerning this subject. Thanks Wilson for the personal message to say hi. I'm back for the first time in many months.....many months. I enjoyed this forum for the most part but left several years ago (with just a few visits per year) because of the politics and religion. This is the first post I viewed and to my pleasure discovered this new opinion concerning volatile issues. I am a strong conservative Christian man that has learned to be very careful.....I have very strong opinions like everybody else but realized that Truth in Love trumps all else. I'm back for a while to see how it goes. You "old timers" may remember that I'm not a huge four wheeler enthusiast yet I own two and that my real passion is dirt bikes. I do enjoy listening to conversations about certain problems and even contributing if I have some insight. This feels good and it's good to be back.
  18. @Kendallh, looks like the 04 carb is a one year specific carb. I don't think a TPS will cause limp mode, but it very well might on a Rubicon. I had a TPS code on my footshift Foreman and it didn't change function any, just annoying error code. I did the troubleshooting on the TPS and it was in spec. Ended up replacing the ECU and still had the error code. Plugged the old ECU back in and the code went away. Apparently I had a bit of frosting/corrosion on the ECU pins and plugging and unplugging several times cleaned them enough to make the TPS code go away. Even with an aftermarket TPS if you get good readings you shouldn't get a code. If your TPS measures good, I'd clean connections at ECU and at TPS and check for continuity on those wires. Honda uses a lot of different part numbers and some of them interchange, and some do not, regardless of what the "related fitment" shows. I looked at the 05-14 Rubicon carbs and it appears to maybe be a slight difference in the main jet size (158 is offered for both carbs, but the 04 has an optional 152 while the 05-14 has an optional 162) 2004 https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/honda/atv/2004/trx500fa-a-fourtrax-foreman-rubicon/carburetor 2011 https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/honda/atv/2011/trx500fa-a-fourtrax-foreman-rubicon/carburetor The TPS also has a slightly different part number. That said, I checked the TPS readings in both versions of the factory service manual and both call for more or less the same readings for a "good" TPS. 04 has .5 closed to 3.5-5.5 ohms opened 05-14 has .5 closed to 4-6 ohms opened My point? You can likely use a newer carb that will work fine, still going OEM, but from a slightly different year Rubicon. I'll PM you one I got fairly cheap that was OEM and works perfectly on my 2012 Rubicon. The part number does not pull up anywhere in schematics that I've found, and @toodeep said it was likely a Canadian part number, but he thought it was a Rubicon carb, and when I tried it it worked perfectly. I happen to have an 04 carb in my yard, and a new Rubicon carb somewhere in my shop (I ordered an extra). I can take some pics of them side by side for comparison.
  19. My ATV was only running on 1 cylinder.. not sure why 🤣😂
  20. Thanks for lettting us know how it worked out. Might help someone else out in the future with the same problem.
  21. Thank you so much Jeep. You were 100% correct. After replacing the oil pump chain and installing the engine, I was still waiting on some new seals/boots for my front drive shaft. Being impatient to give the machine a try to see if everything worked, I covered the front differential to protect from dirt, and drove the machine up and down the road a couple of times. I would never have guessed that without the front drive shaft in it would cause all of these problems. Put the drive shaft with new seals & boots in last night and everything is working perfectly! Thanks again!
  22. Great help. I just took it to a shop where they can find out what’s up. I will let you know when I find out. Thanks again.
  23. Not really. You have some sort of issue under there so I’d just pull it and see what you find.
  24. maybe one day you will hit your state lottery too huh ?..lol.
  25. 10-4 I'll check it out when I can. Running out of daylight today.
  26. Thanks for the update Obviously, somehow power is is making its way from the red/black constant power over to the brown/black wire power circuit somewhere further down the line on the circuit board, You might want to check the speedometer plug down below just in case there’s something funny going on down there, if not, you could very well have a faulty circuit card/ circuit -AKATV
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