My Manual told me to get special tools and remove primary and secondary clutches to remove back belt housing plate just to make room to remove one remaining bottom starter mounting bolt!

Instead this is what I did. I took out the air box and removed the top easy starter mounting bolt. With the bottom stubborn mounting bolt you just back in off until it hits the backplate of belt housing,it will not come out but will disconnect.
Than I used large channel locks and turned the start clockwise until the bolt was at the 12 O'Clock position and slipped the bolt and the starter right out no problem.

I can,t believe my " Clymer" manual wanted me to tear down half the bike to remove one bolt!

BTW it turned out one of my starter bushes was sticking so I cleaned it up and it works great now. I also put that blue gasket goo everywhere a o ring was, to see if that may help water proof these Polaris starters once and for all.

 

Thank's for the info TLC , that's good to know ; this will help alot for member's who've had to do this the hard way ! williebee

 

Since the Sportsman 400 and 450 have the same layout I would think it would work for those models also.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Nice tip! Wish you'd told me last week....[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]