dont want to bash sorry if i came across above like that but the dealer did tell me my problem was with the es motor or whatever that is called something about it shorting out and causing it to hang in between gers it was making thesame grinding noise like you were describing i by no means want to bash i grew up on hondas my dad is still on a honda but he is on the 650 rincon now his second one at that i loved my honda butafter that and it almost killing me i figured i would go to another brand of course it has it's flaws lol

tyler

 

We bought our Rancher for our daughters. We rented a Rancher for them to ride on the Piaute trails. It was a 2-wd ES. All my daughters drive manual trans vehicles so shifting is not a problem. They liked the ES a lot, so that what I bought them but a 4-wd instead of a 2-wd.

So far we only have 1300 miles on it and have had zero problems, with anything. It does not get the living heck beat out of it and it is not used as a submarine.

Personally, I would rather own a belt than a foot shift ATV. AAAHHHHH, thats hard to say, I don't like belts, but I guess I like a foot shift even less.

 

This doesn't sound like a ES problem. Due to the shock recieved, I'm gonna guess that there is a short starting that is allowing stray voltage to run through the frame. The excess voltage is playing havoc with your ES shift buttons. Due to the fact that a fuse hasn't blown yet, I would look toward a winch connection getting a way to jump to the frame intermittently. Hope this helps, and hope you recover to ride as you wish.