Originally Posted by brumbear

Armagh your right about that, but I find usually when fuel lock up is the problem they start for a second or 10 then stall. So open your fuel tank and see if the little bastid fires up. Then go to intake and or compression. This is as long as you are sure you have spark as stated.
Any engine needs 4 things to run Air, Fuel, spark and a place to EXPLODE it really is that simple.

Originally Posted by brumbear

Armagh your right about that, but I find usually when fuel lock up is the problem they start for a second or 10 then stall. So open your fuel tank and see if the little bastid fires up. Then go to intake and or compression. This is as long as you are sure you have spark as stated.
Any engine needs 4 things to run Air, Fuel, spark and a place to EXPLODE it really is that simple.

Originally Posted by LynnEdwards

Slow turning starters fall into the following categories:

1) Battery is not up to the task (either bad or discharged)
2) Bad connections between the starter motor and the battery. This alos includes the ground return from the starter motor through the frame and back to the negative battery post.
3) Bad starter motor.
4) Engine is too hard to turn.

The numbers 1-4 also follows the path of likelyhood, with bad battery first. and engine won't turn being least likely.

Some simple things to try first:

A) Jump your little quad battery using jumper cables to your car battery. Please take *extra* care to get the polarity right. Plus to Plus, and Minus to Minus. Does the starter motor crank at normal speed now? If yes your battery is bad or discharged. Then we can delve further with a meter to see if the battery is just discharged, or if it is just plain bad.

B) Remove the jumper cables. Follow the big red wire from the positive battery post to a screw post on the starter solenoid. Find the other screw post that has a big red wire going down to the starter motor. Put your quad in neutral, and set the parking brake. (You are about to bypass some startup safety interlocks - let's make sure your quad stays still if it starts up). Turn on the igntion and set all kill switches to "run". Now take the shank of a screwdriver and short the two screw terminals above together. Some sparking is normal. Does the starter turn at a normal rate now?

If these two test don't help to identify the problem then get a meter ready and we'll go deeper.