2000 Sportsman 500 no four wheel drive..What to check first ?????????????

 

Make sure the small connectors under the front panel are secure. With the power on and in gear check that you have voltage on each gray wire in the connector. If so then trace each wire down to the strut coil to see if there is a short. Same with the brown wires (ground wires) aren't the problem. Gear case switch internal plastic arms can break also. Just make sure you show gear position. If this doesn't help could be the speedo itself,especially if BOTH wheels aren't getting power. Think this is the first year the awd and limiter was built into the speedo? Might be right,might be wrong? If this is the case some posters have by passed the speedo wiring to allow awd. Think it's the brown/yellow wire(or brown/white?) in the speedo harness that is the ground for the awd.Think it was bypassed to a good ground?? IF this is the cause,others that have rigged this up should give you some responses. OPT