I recently bought a used 08 rancher with a bypassed reverse safety, would like to return it to stock. Haven’t been able to find any information on parts and procedure to do so. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks

 

Which model rancher ES or manual or AT

 

manual (fm)

 

But why? The Honda reverse system is ridiculous. Being able to simply downshift one more time to go to reverse is so much better.

 

There is a cable pull under the left handbrake lever. The peg with red top, on the lever, is pressed down, this peg locks in the lower cable pull and when then the lever pulled the lower cable is pulled too. At the other end of the cable there is a lock-out lever going into the back of the engine (right at the bottom), it is spring loaded so someone must have jammed it in the reverse position.

The reason for a lock out is to stop you accidentally going down the gearbox, past neutral, into reverse while going along. This would do the transmission no good at all. On bikes with no gear position indicator, it is difficult to know which gear you are in, so only when the neutral light comes up do you know you have changed down into neutral, and this is easy to miss. All bikes with foot change reverse that I have come across, have a lock-out on them.