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  1. Heading home from work now. Will report back shortly
  2. Correct, sounds like it’s time for a new oil pump. The 05–14 updated oil pump is a much better design and bolts right in. You will see that part supersedes the original oil pump part number from 01–04
  3. 10-4. Will measure that again after work. The fuse box terminals are clean with no corrosion of any kind, and no sign of melting. That said, it obviously fried something when that spark plug wire melted to the exhaust. When I picked the thing up, the ignition fuse was blown. The only spare was a 30A, so I stuck that in place, turned the key on, and smoke started pouring out of the coil (which was still grounded to the exhaust at that point). I turned the key off, and the 30A fuse did not blow during that series of events. Since then, no spark with good ignition fuse. Obviously something is fried, but finding WHAT is proving problematic.
  4. So to clarify, plug grey plug back into ECU, remove jumper, and measure voltage on blk/red coil wire?
  5. @Melatv with the jumper wire in place from battery positive to black\red coil wire, I got 12.71 V on the unplugged grey ECU plug. Measuring voltage directly at the battery I got 12.74 V. Obviously had been on a battery tender just prior to me taking those readings
  6. I wouldn’t say “cut your losses and sell”, but yes, it’s not uncommon on these IRS machines with the rear brake on the driveshaft. I have a thread around here somewhere where I went through the same concern with the wife’s IRS 420. It seems to be an irritating “normal” for Rincons and other IRS Hondas. Most of my machines don’t have functional rear brakes, because the rear drum brakes on these machines don’t hold up to the mud and water I ride in. The front brakes have more than enough stopping power. On the machines I have that still have working rear brakes, I use them for a parking brake.
  7. So do your jumper wire trick, but leave grey ECU plug off and measure backfed voltage at the plug?
  8. 🤦‍♂️ no idea how to add an ATC page. Maybe Retro can do it. I have a 185S in the yard that’s been sitting awhile. I might get to it one of these days
  9. It’s good. If I pull it I get full battery voltage on one lug. When I put it back i get about a one volt drop when I measure voltage at the fuse
  10. No voltage at all at the coil with the gray plug disconnected on the ECU.
  11. You'd be fine. I have 26" MudBugs on my kid's stock 350 Rancher AND my other kid's stock 300. I wouldn't want to go bigger on either machine, but since you're only looking at 25's you'd be perfectly ok.
  12. When he did my meter it took less than a week, including shipping both ways to Alaska!
  13. I missed this question. Did you ever get an answer to this part? I know my ES converted to footshift does show the proper gear but always throws an error code when you shift. The N displayed for all gears could be a broken shift drum, which was common in 2000-2001 350's, and if the rear of the shift drum broke off, or alternatively, someone might have have hardwired it to show N all the time so it would start.
  14. No idea. He's a good kid though. He and his dad are on a trip now to haul loads of hay to the Texas panhandle where the fires have hurt so many farmers.
  15. Well Highlifter closed their forum down and that thread disappeared, so you wouldn't have found anything. Let us know if it works ok once you get the rear stuff swapped over.
  16. I think you're on the right track. Back when the highlifter forum was still up there was a guy who tried swapping 420 to 500 engines and there was a difference in the pickup coil, flywheel etc. If you're trying to use the 520 wiring harness I would sap the flywheel, CKP etc all off of the 520 engine and put it on the 420 case. Welcome aboard!
  17. This belongs to a kid who graduated last year with my middle kid. His family farms, row crops and cattle. The dad put both his boys to work when they were 5-6 years old, and the one who graduated with my kid just wants to be a truck driver. Not just any truck driver either, a vintage 70's truck driver. He has that long nose Pete, complete with the chrome "reclining babe" emblems in appropriate places, wears clothes straight out of the late 70's, and has a 100 running lights on the thing. Weighs about 90 pounds soaking wet too.
  18. Paging @AKATV. He's the meter expert.
  19. Well let me unplug that grey connector after work and see what I get. You know I'm a little scatterbrained LOL
  20. Those are neat little machines. Walmart clearanced some of the new ones 4-5 years ago and I almost bought one.
  21. Hey @Melatv! There are two red wires, a black wire, and a pink wire. Wasn’t sure which to jump so I just hooked up two different extra ignition switches I had in the shop and neither made a difference. I also unplugged the fuel injection relay and it also made no difference in voltage to the coil with key on.
  22. While searching for a coil, I came across an aftermarket listing that showed fitment to be 2012-2013 Foreman, AND 14-up 420 Ranchers. I compared it to a 420 coil on my buddy's kid's Rancher, and the connections are the same, so I tried it. Same results (no spark), except this one doesn't get warm when cranking. I still get a voltage drop in the coil wires when I hook up the coil, but show 1 volt more with the wires NOT hooked up to the coil. (Full battery voltage at Blk/Red wire if I have it off the coil, and 11.XX volts if I hook the coil up).
  23. Been plugging away on the gaskets on this thing. Nothing like rock hard 40 year old gaskets to make you want to toss the whole project in the lake. These early Honda engines have gaskets on EVERYTHING too. No Hondabond anywhere, all paper gaskets. I probably have 4-5 hours just in gasket scraping on this engine. You can see the pile of gasket bits from this morning up next to the ratchet. The rings I had to order from Australia should be here today. Apparently pistons and rings for these 125's have become impossible to find. I've noticed piston supply for even common engines hasn't really come back post-covid. Seems the 125's are pretty much unobtanium now, which stinks because I have two of them out back and am worried I won't be able to get rings for them when the time comes. So, while we're on the subject, any "tricks of the trade" for these ancient, rock hard gaskets?
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