I own a 2000 rancher and after I went to a river about 3 hours of trail sevral water passes, I notice that my shift bottons donīt work.they stay in the last gear so when I need to go in 1st. or 2nd. gear for the river cross. I have to put off the key and turned on again for in that way the shifts work and go to "N" and turn on my bike,
but in 3 or 5 minutes they stock again, and i have to do all the procedure again and again in my 6 hours trail..
I intented to disconect the battery for get the computer in reset but it dosent work .My dealer have the atv about 3 weeks and they dont know nothing.

If any knows which is the problem maybe water or hot wheater.. I apreciate your cooperation. tanks.

 

Your problem is with one of the sensors. My did exactly the samething. Does your speed/odometer work. My didn't. I know exeactly what you are going through. Pain in the butt to have to turn the atv off and on to be able to shift. I drove that way for about 250 miles in the three weeks while the part was on order. I bought mine first of Nov. There were no parts in the country. I screamed long and loud until the district service rep removed the part from a new Rancher to fix mine.

I know have 1400+ miles on mine now with no other problems that weren't self induced. (Cut wiring harnes with a frayed winch cable)

Check your sensors and apply de-electric grease to help with water problems.

Good Luck.

 

like the above posts stated, it's just a loose or malfunctioning sensor. Search the forum of "ES shifting problems" and you will find, in detail, where all the sensors are and how to fix the probelm. I beleive there are three on the rancher but can't remeber.

I highly recommend that everyone with a qaud buys an appropriate shop manual for it. A lot of dealer mechanics arn't woth diddly squat. I think they should come stadard with a qaud......

 

Where is that es shifting problem forum ? I couldn't find it

 

there isn't a seperate forum for ES shifting problems. You need to search the honda forum with the search function. I tried and the only thread i could relocate was this one.


http://forums.atvconnection.com/thre...95&StartRow=21

It describes one of the sensors (snowshark talks about the angle sensor). There was a thread a while back that described where all the sensors were, but i can't find it.....sorry.

hope this helps a little
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When the 450ES first came out, when you got to fifth gear, it wouldn't downshift. You had to turn the bike off and let everything "reset". Honda knew about it, but shipped the quads anyway.

Way to go Honda.

 

It is so refreshing seeing folks post responses knowing that they are simply trying to be constructive and not at all into bashing. Isn't that right, Quadfather?

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No problem with my Rancher ES, and all I do is mud/water ride.