I posted one the other day about my awd and winch not working, now today trying to plow 15in of snow i had more issues. The dash was all screwed up. I had to push the overide in to go forwards, then the awd quit again in reverse. While in reverse the neutral light would come on. My battery was really low this morning. Its only 1yr old. Is all this caused by the batt being low? I heard the polaris' really need a full charge to run everything. Anything else i should check? I had to plow twice today, this morning everything worked fine, but the batt felt like it had a way better charge. This afternoon is when all of the above happend.
I normally haven't had a charging problem. The batt seems to hold a charge most of the time, only every once in a while it will drain down a little and after running it for a while it starts better. So i can't imagine its not charging at all. I won't have time to trouble shoot it today. It won't be until tues that i can look at it better.
Ok, so i had a charger on it here and it charged back up to full. Started right up fine, but when you put it in reverse the neutral light sometimes comes on or if it goes off the reverse light won't come on. Also the awd still won't come on in reverse but it does in hi or lo.
with further investigation i am lead to believe that my shift sensor might be bad. It would explain why in rev it reads neutral and why it won't allow me to engage the 4x4 because it doesn't think its in reverse. It also would explain why when i was in low i had to use the override button, it thought it was in reverse. I think this is the issue. I am going to call my dealer tomorrow to see what they think.
Just an update, it was my gear selector switch. I ordered one, but then i realized i could just do the override on it. So i cut the red and grey wires in the gear shift harness and put them together. Killed 2 birds with one stone. I got rid of the override and it went around my bad gear switch so now the neutral and reverse lights don't come on, but thats no big deal.
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