Hi all, new here. Have a 2003 sportsman500. is it possible to manually put it all wheelor 4 whell drive all the time for snow plowing?? would like to find a way to be able to manually lock in the front wheel with a switch or somethin so i can lock and unlock them as i wish,, thanx,,,,,,Ted

 

i seen one of the guys on here had a list of mods he had done... i think one of them said reverse override mod... could be that..?

 

thats not the rev overirde mod as far as i know there is no way to lock them all in 4x4 the system you got on there is great for plowing.

 

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Itadid

Hi all, new here. Have a 2003 sportsman500. is it possible to manually put it all wheelor 4 whell drive all the time for snow plowing?? would like to find a way to be able to manually lock in the front wheel with a switch or somethin so i can lock and unlock them as i wish,, thanx,,,,,,Ted</end quote></div>

It,s pointless even if you could, If it was full time AWD it would be almost impossible to steer (Like Full time Diff lock). Don,t worry it automatically goes to AWD when needed.

The way its set up now when plowing in AWD, is either all 4 wheels spin or none at all,can,t see how you can improve on that.

 

i guess im trying to figure out what hes asking since its already a TRUE awd why or what would you change?

 

Hes talking about a way to have the front locked 100% of the time in AWD mode. Could you imangine how the steering would be with the front two wheels lock up all the time.

 

forgive me for saying but that would be stupid. even the full time 4x4 that hondas have are limited slip as you couldnt steer them at all. leave it along it works good the way it is.my .02

 

Why reinvent the wheel?

 

There is a simple but *** backwards way to do it. Put your smaller diameter tires on the rear and larger on the front. That makes the rears turn faster than the fronts and the sensor thinks the rears are spinning and locs the AWD in. Thats the way some of the Track Mfg's keep the Polaris locked in 4 Track drive.

 

You don't need anything better than the stock set-up for plowing snow. I did over 250 inches last winter with no problems at all.