1.
Went to check / clean air filter, and noticed an inch or 2 of what appeared to be old nasty oil at the bottom of the air cleaner box. I'm not using oil, and the owners manual doesn't have this in there. What is it?

2.
On top of my gas tank, from under the console, a 3 wire connector plug magically appeared. Nothing seems disconnected, and everything is fine. What's this wire harness for?

Thanks all!

 

Staceman I can't help with the first question but the wire harness you found is for the dealerships to connect to there computers so they can see what the quad is doing, just tuck it back up inside the pod, it doesn't need to be connected to anything.

 

Cool. Thanks Polaris500Sportsman.

Do you have this black oily muck in your air cleaner box?
There is a drain hose for it, so I drained it. My air filter is pretty oily though.

 

when I first got mine , I checked the air filter and it had just a little of what your describing in bottom of pan but it was so little I wiped it up with a paper towel

 

Evenin staceman
There should not be any oil in there, Did you flip your quad? Your filter should be clean and dry,

 

You will get oil in your air box just by going up and down steep inclines over time, my Friend's 400 Kodiak also does it.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Did you flip your quad?</end quote></div>

Actually yes, once, got it back up on all 4's within 15 seconds.

Sweet quad though.

FYI, those stock tires must be pretty soft. I had 7psi pressure in all tires (at 1200 ft. elevation), went camping at 7000 ft. elevation, and the ride was rough!

The tires automagically pressurized themselves to 8.5 psi.

I lowered them to 5.5 lbs, and the ride was awesome yet again.

Got back down to 1200 ft, low and behold, tires were now down to 4psi.

I'm assuming that the tires "pumped up", like a bag of chips driving up to the mountains.