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Glad to hear it made it back safely!

Let me know once you get it all back together and all is well

Fingers crossed  that you get some warm dry weather there soon

Dont feel bad, I still have 18" snow on ground and its 2 degrees out

I love Winter but this time every year Im about ready for some change

My success rate has improved so much with this after getting a good set of cobalt bits, drilling slow and using cutting oil

Man -those black oxide cheapo bits.........dont know how I got along without Cobalt bits ( I got a good set from Drill Hog USA, they will replace bad/broken bits for life, no questions)

Also had good luck welding a nut on then spiining it out or building up a flush broken bolt and then welding a nut on

I have a low success rate with extractors,-once in awhile though, with some heat,  PB Blaster and tapping with a hammer, I get lucky

-always scared to break off a tap in a hard spot- man that ruins the mood quick 😠

No, thats plenty of time, just wanted to make sure I was not doing something wrong

For some reason I had it in my mind that we could always go back and edit on here

I will just proofreed  better next time, I was in a hurry to get out to the garage and all that

Good to know that tire tire sizes dont have to be different in the front and rear. I never realized gearbox differences were a fraction of a fraction

Usually up here biggest I have run or seen, were 24 front, 25 rear on the fourtrax 300.

I still tend to think much bigger than that has to be hard on design of engine, transmission and gearboxs without a gear reduction or 424 switchout to take some load off,

especially with the big lug tires.

Thats just me though, as I tend to try and keep things stock or close as I can. Things tend to break easier when its gets around zero and below

When you are 15 miles back in 10 below, its a long cold hump out on foot when something lets go, it gives you time to ponder if bigger tires helped to blow out your gearbox 

Those rear gearboxes arent getting any easier to find lately...

Its such a small, lightweight and well designed workhorse of a machine, definately dont make em like that anymore- gotta take care of em............

Speaking of 424s- I was looking for the push pull cable if anyone has one, if not I will order the rebuild kit from Wide Open if they still have them

I just dug through my shed and found one I had for a Foreman 400 to install and found another old one I had for the Rancher 350 that had a bad cable and button

They were both Warn, so I thought that was a good forgotten find. Going to mount them up on a couple wheelers I am going to pass along when it gets warmer

Hadnt heard the news till now on Wide Open discontinuing the 424- guess I better check it out soon

Hope its not the rear end-maybe u-joint let go on the rear drive shaft?

Man- 28's woould seem hard on a stock rear end for sure

Are you maintaing a 1 inch difference between front and rear tire sizes? The gearbox ratios on those call for 1 inch smaller in the front

I know that can put a great deal of strain on the drive train if not, especially with oversize tires more so on hardpack or pavement

Hope your tranny is ok too

Good let and let us know what you find

A Big Welcome!

You are in the right place with all those Honda ATVs.......☺️

Wanted to ask what the timeline is to edit posts once created?

I see I had a few spelling errors etc on a post and when I went back, was unable to edit

Dont want to be looking like I need one of those Diplomas from the University of SPAM over across the way ☺️

I sent them ( ADMIN) a note a few days ago too, no reply-no action

Shocked- as I waded thru 9-9 pages on the Foreman 450 page and it was ALL (Chinese?) SPAM

Sad to see the Forum in a death spiral

Time to put out the invite to all to come on over here......

(just kidding it was sent into to me for reprogramming)

This is what happens to your speedometer milage and hours when you run without a battery or let it go dead -( which is really hard on your stator and voltage reg too)

This is actually a 450ES-notice the gear position area is missing, which is common as well

sometimes the miles and hours go to all 999999999.s or mising also

FYI-  I have a new EEPROM file for the Foreman 450ES that I can load

           It is 942mi and 109hrs, if that is closer to your original speedometer reading

How many miles do YOU all got on your Foreman 450S?

Put some miles on mine this Season.................

Man these Honda ATVs last  FOR-EV-ER

4 hours ago, TRX Student said:

WOW, I tried a repair job this past fall, and the screen looks exactly the way it did before. So clearly I don't know what I'm doing. Do you live close to LedFTed? or did he mail it in?

   LedFTed PM'd me with his problem and just mailed it to me, I not close to anbody unless you live in Alaska haha

   The biggest thing  is you dont have to send the whole speedometer in, just the circuit card in the pictures. It only costs 5 bucks or so First Class Mail that way

Thanks everyone for the comments, glad to help where I can

I recently found out some dissapointing news when attemping repairs on an other speedometer I had laying around for Rancher 400AT with "GPScape" (corny name, never liked it)

If your Speedometer has images on it when its turned off, like the Rubicon, Foreman 500, Rancher 400 etc.... those are printed directly onto the front polarizing film

When that film gets sun damaged and burnt there is no replacing it to original, as those films are created at the factory. 

You could replace the film and would have the LCD data show as normal but all the writing such as "fuel" and dividing lines for the sections, etc would not be there

Best keep 'em covered up when not in use

PS Anybody got a good Speedo glass for Rancher 400 w/GPScape? ............................................................................See my point?

I just finished repairing a speedometer display with heavy sun UV burnout for our member LedFTed this morning

I wanted to show results of UV damage repair, other than the reprogramming that I do

Before and after pics below-

my phone reflection in 2nd picture- not screen defect .....😊

Welcome, you're in good hands here

Glad to hear that they found the problem and it was done under warranty

Let us know for sure after you ride it for awhile

Wow! thats a nice clean engine case there for sure!

Great writeup so far!

 I just had to do this awhile back for first gear and figured if I was in that far.... so I  did  all seals, gaskets and check all bearings, chain etc.. and did a "Superclean" of the everything inside as welll. Suprising the sludge and junk that flushes out of some these engine cases sometimes

What do use to clean your cases by chance?

I found that starting fluid works really well, is kind of cheap (walmart supertech) but a can sure goes quick

Thanks again for great writeup and talk with you soon

Thanks for that

I hate to hear of useful stuff being tossed, but then I look in my shed and garage.... and start to understand- haha

I just used my last circuit board to help a member out. I have found when they "just need re-programing"

they usually have burnt screen and or damage to mainboard etc... I try to keep a few extra parts on hand so I dont have

to have them wait for me to source the parts. I think I might have them start sending a parts board with theirs to speed things up

I surely appreciate the thought, just let me know whenever and we can work it out

Speaking of tossing out parts-

I got friendly with the local Arctic Cat Dealership- we're a small town anyways

They would let me up walk thru and go in the overhead area and paw around for used parts, use their specialty pullers etc

They had probably15+ ATV parts motors, some complete from warranty exchange etc..  all kinds of good stuff

They would sell used parts for 1/4-1/2 price usually 20 -40 bucks for a few things or so- you get the idea

Went in one day after not being in for a few months, faces were down, some corperate changes were being made

new owner, restructuring, etc...

I went to look around and talked with the shop foreman about what was going on etc

They had brought in one of those 40 foot long dumpsters and had thrown EVERYTHING away 10 days prior--

Fenders- motors- racks -(all the used stuff of course)  25 years worth

I was speechless- I would have singlehandedly took it all if I had known- there was a LOT of potential money there tossed out,

but I get it, they're not in the used parts business

Needless to say I went to the dump hoping to spot some of it, but it must have all been at the bottom of the metal pile or bulldozed over..

anyways....

I know, I know.....- Arctic Cat -good place for it  at t he dump!  -ha ha I can see it coming already....

But you know what I mean- when you need parts it kills you to see stuff like that tossed out...

Thanks again and talk with you soon

Thank you for the replies on these parts -the headlight bucket has been on backorder for months with no estimated ship date yet

Probably will just buy the handlebars new as not too bad of a price  but -that small camo speedo cover is over 70.00 at dealer yikes!

Dont beat me up too bad- trying to help a neigbor out

2013 King Quad 500/750 AXi : Handlebars (Need to be off of a power steering model -depth and pitch are different)

                                                  Camo Speedometer cover piece

                                                  Right side headlight plastic mounting bucket ( the plastic piece the headlight fits into)

Looks like the Rubicon has a different display layout on the left side so they would not work

Any Rancher 350ES and Foreman 450S or ES will work though

Anything in any condition would help at this point

Thanks

Hi

Depending on your issue you are having I might be able to help you out

I have been repairing Speedometers for the Foreman 450s and ES/FE and older Rancher 350ES for awhile now

Most people found me over at the the old Honda Foreman and Honda ATV sites

Some of the problems that happen to the Speedometers are the inner display screen gets sunburn/UV damage and kind

of discolors or looks melted so you cannot read the the display.

Lately, I have seen a lot of ones that are completely blank (will light up when headlights are on but nothing on the screen at all) due to bad circuit card

the common problem causing that seems to be jumping atv off a car with no battery in the ATV -at least thats what the owners said 

Also, if you run without a battery or let sit a long time with dead battery(usually 8 months or longer, most time its years)

the speedometer will do weird things as have no gear position indicator or will read KM instead of MPH and the hours and mileage will change to all 9's

or some astronomical number like 500,000 miles etc.

Those issues can be reprogrammed, which I do and I am currently working on figuring out fixing the sunburnt screens as well

I have found lately that a lot of people sending in theirs for reprogramming have needed more than programming as their inner screens were cracked or circuit cards were water damaged etc...Unfortunately at this point I have run out of spare parts to support timely repairs unless yours just needs programming

I had a few salvage speedometers and would pick up a broken one here and there when I saw them but my local area has been picked clean now

If anyone has a lead on parts speedometers or a few bad ones laying around let me know what you want for them, just need the inner circuit card portion

so thay are cheap to ship

Let me know if you need repair and if anyone has a lead on parts speedos let me know and we can work it out