[wantsomeranch]

I bought a 2013 Honda Rancher 420 4x4 with around 2000 miles that gets stuck in gear when you shift it out of neutral, then when you turn it off it won't crank unless you can get it back in neutral. I took it to a mechanic and he said it looked like the previous owner took it apart and bent a bunch of stuff inside the transmission and it would cost too much to fix than it'd be worth. Problem is I don't know if he's just telling me that because he doesn't have time to mess with it. I only paid a couple hundred bucks for it so I could part it out and make a decent profit off of it which is why I bought it, but it's a nice looking atv so I'd like to get it fixed if it'd be worth it. Anyone know how much it should cost to rebuild one of these transmissions?

 

[wheelsquad]

I bought a 2013 Honda Rancher 420 4x4 with around 2000 miles that gets stuck in gear when you shift it out of neutral, then when you turn it off it won't crank unless you can get it back in neutral. I took it to a mechanic and he said it looked like the previous owner took it apart and bent a bunch of stuff inside the transmission and it would cost too much to fix than it'd be worth. Problem is I don't know if he's just telling me that because he doesn't have time to mess with it. I only paid a couple hundred bucks for it so I could part it out and make a decent profit off of it which is why I bought it, but it's a nice looking atv so I'd like to get it fixed if it'd be worth it. Anyone know how much it should cost to rebuild one of these transmissions?

Have you tried the manual override to shift it? Should be a handle in your toolkit to try that. Not sure how well your mechanic could have truly diagnosed it without taking it apart, but I would guess it would have been hard for the prior owner to bend a shift fork being that it is an auto/DCT. Unless he bent a fork also using the manual lever.

If you're motivated enough to buy a bike to sell for parts, with a service manual and us here to help you you should be motivated enough to fix this thing yourself if you really want to keep it. We're here to help.

 

[wantsomeranch]

The mechanic said he pulled the motor and took it apart and the previous owner had bent some stuff inside so it wasn't worth fixing. I don't know if I can really take his word for it though since he has had the ATV for 6 months and hasn't had time to work on it so he may just be telling me that to get me out of his hair. The previous owner was a diesel mechanic who moved away and his brother sold it to me for him. His brother said that the guy put a new clutch in it and drove it down the road and it must have come apart or something because it got stuck in gear and he had to push it back home. He said he hadn't messed with it after that.

I bought the manual shifting tool before I took it to the mechanic, but I couldn't get it to shift back in neutral no matter how hard I pulled on it, which means I couldn't get it to start. The mechanic sent me a video of it running the first day I brought it to him like 6 months ago so he managed to get it in neutral, but he said when you shift out of neutral the gears get stuck and you can't shift it back. He also said he may need a new wiring harness or ECU since it wouldn't start reliably even when it was in neutral.

 

[retro]

Sounds repairable to me. Why not read and follow the service manual, yank the covers and have a looksee?

 

[wheelsquad]

Hmmm, what kind of mechanic takes a motor apart, finds something bent, and then puts it back together without repairing what was bent/broken? That just doesn't add up to me. All the internals can be replaced and if you've already gone that far, it most certainly is "worth fixing". Just my additional $0.02.