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@Bossdaddy if you are located in the USA I can send you a good used ECM that you can plug in for testing before you spend your money on the part if you wish? Postage won't cost ya a nickel and we'd all feel better about the diagnosis if we could provide absolute proof that we're right. Shoot me a PM if interested and we'll exchange addresses and I'll ship the ECM out to you ASAP.

Crap I’ve got to go, I’m going to be late for graduation. Thanks got to go.

You know Prov , I wouldn't mind if it never got over 75 myself , as long as it never got under 75 either ----

95 degrees today and unfit for human habitation up here. This is a heat wave for us. Glad I'm retired from the paper mill. It's gotta be 90% humidity and well over 110 degrees in there. I don't know how you Southern boys can live in this stuff. I would be thrilled if it never got over 75. I think I'm going to start spending June through August in Antarctica if I can figure out how to get my ATV there.

Thanks Bossdaddy, Shipping 1st thing in the morning!

nice Jeep....yeah, our Academy has basically cleared their ammo shelves and simply use that space to try and sell other product now. their gun cases are also down to mayby 5 pistols last time I looked. I don't even bother. my LGS has always been very strong on inventory and they were incredibly well stocked when I stopped in a couple weeks back. Ammo of course, still a major issue, so 1 box per customer..but the 9mm price was down to $26. so at least they were polite about doing what they could without gouging. They had sales in progress from SIG and Smith (M&P line ). long guns, shotguns, AR style platform racks were full. pistol cases were full..tight side-by-side display full. I was happy to support them with a Sig M18 purchase, and while I didn't need ammo at that $26 price, they asked me and I said , sure give me my box. I'm basically hybernated til this craziness calms down. Family reunion on the calendar for next weekend and they are already asking if they can go out back on my range and plink.. told em just bring their own ammo (grin). I can enjoy the occassional range session as well, but just keeping the round count down. last week, to just check out the new M18, I dumped a 17rd mag and a 21rd mag, enough to figure out the POA for the sights, enjoy the new tool and ensure it was functioning properly... then quick clean and tucked it away for a rainy day. other than that, we have numerous 22lr platforms in both handgun and rifles, so plenty of plinking fun. I've held a few $ back so when ammo breaks down into my price point I'll grab some more, but for now...enough for the zombies

The cook job didn't work so I think I'm going with the new OEM one.

You guys are great teachers, I tried to do what I was told, after all it was for my benefit, y'all were helping me out and I appreciate it. The ECM is in the cooling stage right now.

Oil temp sensor wire that came unplugged. About straight in from the foot pegs in the middle of the motor (general area) you'll find the sensor to plug it back in so your fan will work. You might want to squeeze the connector a little since it looks like it spread a little.

Guys you are the best!! I’ve learned so much but couldn’t do it again without your help for sure. I did the speed sensor thing and it didn’t shift. I’ll cook the heck out of it tomorrow. I’ll update you on results. Thanks again.

This is a great thread by the way.

Thanks Fish! I had gone back and pulled the number on the current shoes. Crossed it and it came back to the ASK set so that is what I ended up ordering from Honda.

Looks like the wire that should connect to the oil temp sensor.

Both the ASK and JB brake shoes are the same physical part and either will work , just made by different manufacturers

Thanks retro, message is on it's way.

Heat wave (for here) is coming today 😆 We're actually going wheeling this evening, 1st time in a few weeks. 😬

Bossdaddy we both can say you been a good Apprentice going step by step with the testing.

Two headed copper head found in flower garden of Florida house

Thanks for hanging in there with us Bossdaddy, we are having fun!

Bossdaddy everything checks out, so ECM is the only part left to place the blame on. A new ECM costs about $259, used will be a lot less but it is still an expensive part. So, since ya got nothing to lose I suggest that ya bake your ECM. Baking the ECM may make it work again, with a lil' bit of luck. If you want to try baking the ECM (and your wife is OK with it) remove it from the rubber boot and place it on a tray or a folded sheet of tin foil and bake it in an oven at 200 degrees F for about 35-40 minutes. Allow the ECM to cool inside the oven then put it back on your Foreman and see if it shifts. Do not drop the ECM while handling it. Let us know how it goes.

Big thanks to you Mel! That was fun!

Yes I would say ECM is bad also -- Big thanks for working this out together 👍

Do you have a part number for these pads? What you do, remove the caliper after every ride?

Brake pads will wear more or less depending on if your in the mud or not. I am not in the mud much, & on my second set of pads since 2016 & going strong.. wildwood is the cats meow!

also pic of my other atv firewood trailer and ATV and this trailer level loaded I dont make the hill either. its just know the limits of how much to load to make the hill when by your self, Heck I just used my 300 4x4 and this trailer last week and pulled the hill I only had 2 rows of blocks across the front of the trailer to give it a try. I did okay but was pretty much the limit of what the 300 4x4 would due.

on the back a have a Logging arch that is on 3 point system on the ATV the logging arch wheels float up/down. More Arch Build and pictures are here https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/the-start-of-my-atv-logging-arch.294895/ This trailer the axle is balanced that is why I use this trailer behind the ATV with skidder as I can get it hooked up when loaded. I have a firewood cutting deck that I skid the logs to and then block them up and split then load trailer and up the hill I go. I like this trailer as I can part next to fire wood cutting deck and skid logs cut them up load/split until trailer is full and then take to wood shed to stack till it gets put into the boiler. Pic of a firewood cutting deck I have another trailer just a bit bigger and its heavy on the front when loaded and I with just the ATV and no logging arch I still dont make the hill unless its loaded light.

I don’t know what a real tech uses to take bends out of wheel lips. But i found that a chain Quick Link works great. i have to paint these rims Here’s an example using a 5/16” Quick Link and a hammer. i think a 3/8” Quick Link would work better. Breaks up the finish but these getting painted anyway

I haven't ridden a lot of 450's, but from what I have, the difference is negligible. The "500" is actually a 475, and honestly when you get into these single cylinder Honda engines, it takes a LOT of CC's to make much of a difference in perceivable power.

I think that 450 will pull anything a 500 will pull. A front diff lock might help, but it sounds like weight is the problem, not power. If you're spinning tires on a 450, you'll be spinning tires on a bigger machine.

Ted is making (reading) all the expected talking points.. and he ain't wrong. Guns have been a simple topic in my family household. 1) Dad enjoyed hunting. A shotgun, a deer lever rifle and a pistol for the bedstand..even in the days when nightime meant you latched the little hook on the screen door and that was all. Ammo on hand at any given time might be a partial box of shotgun shells, maybe a 100rd stick of 22, and a sandwhich baggy with a handful of 30/30 rounds (swear ta God..it was a glad wrap sandwhich bag with the rounds in it!) If you were planning to hunt or enjoy target fun, you stopped by Western Auto and grabbed a box. But guns never had a mystic, nor some hyped up wannabee hollywood thing about them 2) Fast forward - The closet, the safes now hold pretty much something in every platform. pistols for daily carry and personal protection. Larger platforms for home defense. Even more aggressive platforms for civilian defense. and stacks of ammo and extra magazines, an inventory of which many gun stores can only dream of having on hand to sell these days. so, what's changed? Govt leaders that send signals to badly behaving people that those people are in fact victims, oppressed by guys like me. they send signals to them that they can and should rise up and cause mayhem and that they in fact will get away with it. Then they tell folks like me that I best just accept that I'm the bad guy and that I have no right to own a tool for personal defense. The media frenzies us, along with hollywood help and govt podium vultures, leveraging any piece of bad news as The Reason why all guns should be outlawed. They threaten to take, they cause supply chain shortages, etc. Hollywood continues to make gazillions of $ on movies that glorify gun violence, really all violence. Video gaming is beyond obscene in doing the same. Schools are happy to teach the oppressed marxist mantra and decades of democratic socialism programs and spending have only deepened the generational slavery to those programs and driven gangs and street violence to new levels. no, my family, my home mindset would still be pretty simple when it comes to guns. I'd rather buy another nice guitar, or amp, or some old lionel trains. but then ol Dianne Fienstein gets up on the camera, wielding an evil black rifle telling me that I'm the only class of human that should not be allowed to possess deadly , destructive force to defend against rioters tearing my world apart, or career criminals invading my home at night..and well, my response is again, "pretty simple" . I go to the store, I buy a higher capacity firearm, buy extra mags for it, buy plenty of ammo, and amazingly enough, not a single one of those guns, mags, bullets has yet to commit a crime..darn things just sit there behaving themselves. I even open the safe sometimes at night and shine a flashlight in there to make sure they haven't snuck out of the house to go commit some horrible act. so, what's changed? I am afraid of my own government. I am confident in their desire to transform my nation. and so, i prepare. stock up, and I only ask that they THEY choose to leave this old hound dog lay on the porch. don't make me get up, and all will be well.

Oh the service manager told me, Toyota got sued for billions. & they sued the frame manufacturer for only millions...so it was a court ordered recall... i wasnt going to argue 😆