I have a 1995 Polaris Magnum 425, never had any problems with it until recently.

4wd will not engage.

Anyone have any related problems or know what has to be done to fix it?



Any help is appreciated, thanks!

 

Does the speedo still work??

 

is there power going thru the switch? is the light bulb blown of the indercator? some of the old ones wouldnt work w/ a blown light bulb.

 

Older Polaris did not need a working speedo for the AWD to work. Have you changed your hub fluids lately?

 

Charge your battery if you haven't. If the battery is low, it doesn't have the juice to flip the electronic AWD switch. Had a neighbor that lost his AWD at the beginning of winter. He thought it would be $$$$ to fix so he struggled for months plowing snow in 2wd. I read about having a fully charged battery on this forum. One day on the charger & his AWD was back.

 

I don,t know, I rode with a bad battery for a month before getting around to buying a new battery and beside having to pull start the ATV everything worked as it should.

 

i dont think the older ones are anywhere near as picky or trouble prone on the voltage or speedo problems for sure. make sure the power is getting thru from the switch to the hubs.

 

I will check all of those suggestions, thanks.

although worst case scenario what could i be looking at if the battery and/or switch are both working properly? possibly a new gear box or something along those lines?

 

Don't worry about the worse case scenario yet. There are wires running to each hub and it's rare to have them both go at the same time. Does the neutral, reverse lights coincide with the gear you have it in. Those years were famous for bad selector switches. Can you manually push forward on the gear selector and get the light to come on? Does the light come on?

 

yes all the lights coincide with the correct gear. the weird thing is that when the 4wd drive first started to stop working there was a weird smell, like something had been burnt out. that's what got me to thinking it could be something with the gears. everything electronically seems to be intact.