I have a 1996 sportsman 400. It has been sitting in my dad's garage for 6 years and I am trying to revive it on my own. Of course I have no known mechanical skills so I am learning as I go.

I removed, disassembled, reassemble, and re-installed the carb. Changed and charged the battery, and now it starts with the starter and/or one pull on the pull start. It runs great except the low beams, dashboard indicators, fan, AWD indicator, etc. are not working.

The High beam light works and one indicator light is working.

What are my chances that the 20 amp self-resetting breaker has failed and how can I test it? It is in the sealed pouch and I am not really excited about cutting it open if I don't need to.

I think my next step after the breaker is to look at the Stater???

THanks for any help and suggestions.

Rick 20

 

Dont have to cut open,just use test light and check each side of wire into pouch BUT have seen perfectly sealed pouches before and have corroded thermal fuse body and terminals inside! If in doubt about fuse just slice,not that expensive.

 

just had that happen on my machine a moth ago went to walmart spent $3 on a new breaker and bam lights camera action (oh yea dont get at dealer they want $30 FOR IT )

 

Thanks I will be working on it this afternoon with a cold one in my hand. Of course only after going to Wally World

 

Thanks... I will get out my test light.

What do you think the liklyhood that the fuse is bad?

 

50/50 chance,with electrical ANYTHING possible! Test light my favorite tool,check if power going to light harness, and other problem connections,some could be just bad connections or bulbs. good luck