2000 polaris 500 sportsman all stock

hello,

My quad is stuck in reverse, any ideas. It has 700 miles on it, not rode hard and well maintained. Should I disconnect the shift rods. Will that tell me if it's the tranny or the box that houses the gear shift? I rode it for a bit, stopped for 30 mins and it won't shift out of reverse. Any ideas would be great.

thank you,

john from michigan

 

Same thing happend to me on my 400sp when it was almost new all me and a buddy did was disconect the shift rods both of them and worked the shifter abit and it freed up never has done it agin kinda a freak thing I guess

 

Same thing here. Happened with about 100 miles on the machine. I just adjusted the rods to get it to work. Also checking the fluid in the gearshift box helped too.

 

Happened to my 2004 500HO as well but I was stuck in high forward. I just took the top of the gear shift box and lever off and put it right back on. Works great now. When I say I took it off and put it right back that is just what I did...lift it up about 3 inches and put it back down. That was it.

Good luck.

 

mines done it twice...just disconnect the linkage and it will imediatley unbind....i did take the lid off the box and put a bit of lube in there....and i have an extra wrench so i can fix it on the trails...