Okay so my husbands atv worked fine until we took it to the reapair shop to have a new stator put in. We got it back and went to ride last weekend. Since we have got this atv it never worked in reverse, but when we went to drive it last weekend we put it both in high and low gears and the atv went backwards. When we put the atv in reverse it did nothing. Im stuck what can we do to fix this?

 

What brand of atv is it?

Post the question in that section and you'll get a lot more answers.

 

I am new here I am not sure how to work this yet lol.


It is a polaris express 300
Thank you

 

That is a pretty old quad. Not sure what parts you can get for it anymore. Try posting your question in the Polaris part of the forums and you'll get a better answer.

 

Hi bjones: I think your ATV mechanic is about as competent as I am. I suspect they put the shift linkage back together backwards. It was going forward in low or high, but nothing in reverse. Now it goes backwards in low or high, but nothing in reverse. At least you know you still have a reverse gear in your transmission. That's good news.

Eyeball that shift linkage from the lever you grab to transmission selector shaft. Somehow when you move the lever to low or high, the transmission selector is going the other way into reverse. I'd disconnect it at the transmission and move the transmission selector (mine is a shaft sticking out of the transmission) from the neutral position (where you can push the ATV) to one of the positions. Then start it up and carefully give it some throttle. It it moves forward, bingo. Now you know what direction the shift lever is suppose to do.

Play around with it some. Changing at stator likely did nothing to the transmission. But the disassembly required to get at the stator may have caused the shift linkage to get reassembled backwards. Gee, maybe your mechanic didn't test his own work.

How's that for a scientific wild guess?

David