bought a 99 bayou 220 that the owner said it needed a starter clutch so i tore it down and low and behold the bolts holding the clutch to the fly wheel were broken off i fixed that and put it back together and the starter would spin but not engage? so i removed the cover and spun the starter and it is spining backwards. i know i know dc wireing switch tho ground and the hot right ? well it did turn the motor over and ran well but the selenoid doesn't make that crisp click sound and it kinda buzzes and starting is sluggish any suggestions?

 

after not recieving any sugestions on where to start with this problem i went back to the wireing diagram and everthing looked right so i decided to tear the starter down what i discovered was that the barrel of the starter was was turned the wrong way after i put it back together the right way and applied the cables the way way they are suppose to it turned great some time patience is a good teacher

 

Can you explain in detail "wrong" way vs. "right" way?
Mine is spinning backwards.
I took apart the starter in turn the barrel 180°. It's spun the right way on bench test.
Put the starter back on and it was still spinning backwards.
Do I need to flip the barrel the opposite way?
Like, top end to the bottom end?

 

If it spins the right way on the bench but not the machine, are you absolutely certain you don't have the battery in backwards?

 

I'm sure.
Could the barrel be upside down on starter? It's like it's reverse polarity

 

You could swap the barrel around. Might change it.

If it spins one way on the bench and backwards on the machine. Then polarity changed from your bench to your machine.

 

Which direction is the starter supposed to spin?

 

I actually have no idea.

On the bench, when you test it. I would imagine the correct way is the only way that kicks the starter drive out to the end of the shaft.

 

95% of quad starters don't kick anything on the bench, it is just a motor, or motor with epicyclic reduction gearbox. The one way clutch cuts drive to it once the engine starts. Fairly sure the 220 has a chain drive starter, so sprocket will spin same way as engine turns, which you can work out from the direction the pull start pulls.