Liam Nixon

No I guess I wasn't, I thought you just meant taking the gears out from behind the electric shift and slipping a wrench of something on the shaft, but no you mean like properly, not a bad idea at all, you would have to take off the rear crankcase cover and then the other cover too wouldn't you? More in-depth process I've heard. Yeah looking back I should've gotten a footshift, didn't really do my research I guess, oh well. It doesn't really matter to me what it is, es or s it just has to work and es if kinda, well, not, going and converting to es is probably the best idea, would you have to do anything else aside from switching out the shifter peg? Like I previously said I've already removed the gears behind the electric shift and just stuck a temporary wrench on it but I do want to do it right, thanks for the help again! Also you were close, not one of the countries you guessed but it's still a Commonwealth, Canada eh, just a hop across the water, and thanks for warm welcome, It was suggested to me to ask on here by AKATV, was asking sane questions on hondaforeman.com and was getting nowhere, but already I've made more progress on here than I did after eating a month on there so thanks for that, yeah I definitely know where to go if I've got questions now, thanks again guys! I know I'll figure it out, either go foot shift, use the ES conversion, or fix the original system, thanks!

Thanks for the responses guys, you're probably right retro that the wiring harness could be out of whack, I'm hoping it's not because that's kind of a whole mess of business to get into but honestly probably the right thing to do really, but at this point in time the gear position switch I know is screwy because it doesn't show continuity in most of it and when I opened the rear crankcase cover it was very corroded looking and stiff to move, have a guy willing to mail me one for 25$ so I'll get that but I'm still not 100% if that'll fix all my issues, same fellow does have a change control unit but it's pricey, all I would like I'd to be able to get the ES system going again and see my speed, tight now I just removed the transfer gears behind the shift motor and stick a piece of flat bar on it so I could move, but long term I need that going again, so I'll replace the gear position switch and go from there, if the ES still isn't working I know it's the change control unit, then I'll figure out my speed issue. And fishfiles that conversion kit actually seems pretty nifty, yeah I did know you could change some stuff around which is kind of what I temporarily did until I get it working again, but that conversion will basically allow me to do what I'm wanting to, avoid using a foot shift because it's hard on the gears (not really to bad but I've been told they are different than "s" gears and not really designed for a foot shifter) but that's actually a pretty good little rig, if I buy the gear position switch and it turns out faulty then I'm definitely considering just ordering that and being done with this whole affair haha. Again thank you so much for your responses and if there's anymore wisdom or advice to lend I'm happy to hear it 👍

So I've recently had a lot of trouble with my foreman, I was told to ask on here because it's apparently where the experts are so don't let me down haha, anyways in December the bike had an electrical hiccup of some kind, sudden stop, just dead, going along in 3rd and it just lost all power, pulled it back and it had blown multiple fuses, replaced them and my spark and electrical shift wasn't working, after tinkering my spark wasn't working but I got that going somehow, but my es is still not responsive, after testing everything I eliminated it down to either the gear position switch or the change control unit, I'm on the verge of just purchasing them but wanted to see if there was a way to tell which one was the faulty device, after temporarily putting it back together my speedometer stopped working, I had the rear crankcase cover off so the sensor was disconnected, it will read my speed from 2-4 km/h as long as I'm in first gear, but because the gear position switch isn't responding (I think) it only reads "1" in the gear slot on the dash, even in reverse, the only time it doesn't is when I'm in neutral which it reads "--" so that makes me think that it reads through the gear position switch that it's neutral, so basically I'm unsure of what to replace, the Speedometer head unit, the gear position switch, the change position switch, or all 3, in on a tight budget so I don't want to purchase anything I don't need, if you guys could give me some insight on what I need to do here that'd be greatly appreciated, anywho respond with anything that might help, cheers lads 👌