Good afternoon everyone. I have spent the last 2 days looking over this forum on everything I could fine on the override switch. I've learned a lot about my 4-wheeler and plan on spending an extra day to find the 4 missing grease fittings that I missed when doing a tune-up on my machine last summer. I’m still

The other day I went to use the override button when backing up and it didn’t work. I was stuck in the snow bank for about 5 minuets. My guess is...
The switch is bad.
The wire to and from the switch are messed up.
The components that feed power or signals to the override switch are bad....
Lose connections to and from the switch to other components…
And I'm sure a bunch of other things are probably messed up to...

Can you guys tell me (or YouTube) show me how to check all the components that might cause the override switch to stop working?
And how to fix the problem?

Also...
I have no idea what other items I should be looking at when trying to fix this problem. I’m a total greenhorn with this wheeler. If anyone has pictures, please post them as well.

I have a 1997 Polaris sportsman 500.

Thanks
Bill

 

I know this sounds silly but I have done this myself, were you in all-wheel drive? sorry I had to ask because I felt like a moron when I looked at the switch.

 

I was in AWD and all 4 wheels were working good going forward.
Only the rear wheels were spinning in reverse.

Bill

 

I by-passed that on my 97-425, take the front cover off and find the control panel with all the wires going to it, unplug the grey orange wire,make a note of where it came from , tape up the end, now find a purple wire and splice it into grey-white wire you should have no speed limiter in reverse and awd anytime the awd switch is on. Its a good thing I write stuff down cause I did that like12 years ago still workin fine

 

did you take apart the switch to make sure it was not corroded? does the light show that your in reverse when you put it in? just making sure that the the tranny switch isn't the issue.

 

I did not take apart the switch guessing it was all sealed in the same housing as the lights and motor on/off switch.

The reverse light works when I'm in reverse.

If the tyranny switch is causing the problem, how do I check or test it? Where is it located on the 4-wheelwe?

Bill

 

it's on the side of the transmission. it should ahve a wire harness plugged in it. do a search on the forum for the by pass the override to see if that fixes it. imo