Hey Ya'll, this is this is my first post on this forum and I need some serious help.
I have a 1995 Fortrax 300 that I am at my wits end and am about ready to shoot the dang thing.
It went thru a bark fire backing 2004 where the fenders were deformed but the other 300 that was in there is still running fine and this one was until about 3-4 weeks ago.
It did get submerged when i took it thru a mud hole that was too deep back in December 2001 but after it dried out I had no other problems from it until 3-4 weeks ago
My First problem was battery kept going down, but it was 8years old, easy fix.
The bike almost always started with one like kick on the kick start, but it got tiring after a while. I found out that my starter solenoid by the battery was not working to I bypassed it (basically using it as a place holder and using the top for connections) It worked perfectly for about 2 weeks.
Then I went out one day to load it up and head to the deer woods and smelled burnt wires replaced the wiring harness wit one off of a running 1992 fortraax 300. I checked, double checked and triple checked that the wires matched up all but 1 did but it was the green wire in a connector that had green, red, black as teh wires where the original only had red and black or red and green I matched the wires with the colored that they belonged and thought all was good since everything else matched perfectly.
I left the connector to the starter solenoid disconnected since it would pop a fuse every time it was hooked up. since I bypassed it and wasn't using it, i figured that it wouldn't hurt me.
I tried to crank and got no fire. Hooked the spark plug into my motorcycle and it fired fine. I tested the coil with a Fluke 77 meter and verified that when the key is on I am getting power to the topside of the coil.
I testes the Ohm Loads against the book the dealer has and it all tested new.
I trimmed back a little of the insulation on the end where the "boot" goes in, by about 1/4" to make sure that it was getting a good connection to the inside of the boot
I apologize for the long post but I wanted give all the pertinent info that I could think of.
If there is more info that you need please let me know
Does anybody have a clue as to what my problem is?
Thanks in advance
I have a 1995 Fortrax 300 that I am at my wits end and am about ready to shoot the dang thing.
It went thru a bark fire backing 2004 where the fenders were deformed but the other 300 that was in there is still running fine and this one was until about 3-4 weeks ago.
It did get submerged when i took it thru a mud hole that was too deep back in December 2001 but after it dried out I had no other problems from it until 3-4 weeks ago
My First problem was battery kept going down, but it was 8years old, easy fix.
The bike almost always started with one like kick on the kick start, but it got tiring after a while. I found out that my starter solenoid by the battery was not working to I bypassed it (basically using it as a place holder and using the top for connections) It worked perfectly for about 2 weeks.
Then I went out one day to load it up and head to the deer woods and smelled burnt wires replaced the wiring harness wit one off of a running 1992 fortraax 300. I checked, double checked and triple checked that the wires matched up all but 1 did but it was the green wire in a connector that had green, red, black as teh wires where the original only had red and black or red and green I matched the wires with the colored that they belonged and thought all was good since everything else matched perfectly.
I left the connector to the starter solenoid disconnected since it would pop a fuse every time it was hooked up. since I bypassed it and wasn't using it, i figured that it wouldn't hurt me.
I tried to crank and got no fire. Hooked the spark plug into my motorcycle and it fired fine. I tested the coil with a Fluke 77 meter and verified that when the key is on I am getting power to the topside of the coil.
I testes the Ohm Loads against the book the dealer has and it all tested new.
I trimmed back a little of the insulation on the end where the "boot" goes in, by about 1/4" to make sure that it was getting a good connection to the inside of the boot
I apologize for the long post but I wanted give all the pertinent info that I could think of.
If there is more info that you need please let me know
Does anybody have a clue as to what my problem is?
Thanks in advance
