Got my 97 Warrior back together (2001 motor). Went riding for a couple of hours today. It ran great.

Later this afternoon after it cooled off we decided to go for another ride. It started right up and idled fine. I gave it some gas and all it would do is bog down and backfire (yes it was out of gear and in neutral). I let it continue to idle for about 5 minutes with no change. It's like it jumped timing or something. Like I said it was running great when I parked it and 3 hours later it's a different machine.

Any ideas?

 

Low on gas? Try reserve position. Parking brake on?

 

Plenty of gas, in neutral, parking brake off.

 

It really sounds like your parking brake sensor is still tripped. Play around with the park brake and see what that does.

 

Clip the electric wire that goes into the clutch lever.see if that makes a difference.If it will not start after you clip it then twist the two wires back together and try it again.

 

Yeah somethings up with the parking brake mechanism.

 

Thanks for the tips, y'all. I'll be giving that a shot this afternoon. This is my first quad and it's tips like those that I didn't find anywhere else. It makes sense since the parking brake lever was tight and I was "working it" to loosen it up after I last parked it. I bought the wrecked Warrior a month ago and have spent all this time fixing and rebuilding it after completely tearing it down. I hope this will be the last hoop I have to jump through for a while. Thanks again.

 

Update: Y'all were dead on the money. It was the parking brake sensor. Good to go. Thanks.