davefrombc

Since I am not familiar with the Timberwolf , I can only guess at a possibility from your description. My best guess is the neutral switch or the mechanism that activates it is either loose or broken so that it is out of position. It may be a simple adjustment and tightening required. Open it up and have a look. Starting in gear is unsafe, especially for a young rider.

Those bits might be from the previous owner having to do a rebuild and not getting all the debris from whatever failed removed. I can't see the circlip being from a wrist pin retainer. You'd most likely have some pretty severe cylinder scoring and other crankcase debris if it was. If it runs fine and no "funny" noises or other debris, I wouldn't worry about it.

If your ATV is a newer one with electronic ignition that will also be drawing a tiny but constant current. Add that to the clock, stereo and any other accessory that must maintain memory settings and the draw on the battery can be significant over a week or more. I have to keep a maintainer on my Sierra because it sits idle for long periods , otherwise the battery goes flat from all those little draws adding up. As Mike mentioned , the alternator in ATVs is minimal so run time to fully charge a large battery could be significant. It doesn't take long storing a lead / acid battery at less than full charge for sulphate to slowly build up and significantly reduce battery capacity. More to consider......If you have a side by side you might find room for a big battery, but not so easy on smaller rigs. Then you gotta consider the battery itself. Do you really want a flooded battery in your ATV ? Most get some pretty significant jostling and way off camber use . Acid leaking out of a flooded batter can wreck havoc, and large SLA batteries can be $$$$$. Unless maintaining memory in accessories and the clock is a must to you, I would suggest instead of trying to shoehorn a bigger battery in ,just install a disconnect switch to shut down all power when the ATV will e parked for a few days or more. Resetting the clock if it's important doesn't take long . A CB or HAM radio gear doesn't draw any more power receiving than any other broadcast radio. They only draw more while key down transmitting, so adding one to your accessories isn't going to affect your battery load to any degree. Just my rambling thoughts on adding a bigger battery .. It can be boiled down to simply saying " It isn't worth the trouble and expense".

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You can get an in line spark tester that will tell you if you're getting spark when cranking over. Here is one carried by Harbor Freight https://www.harborfreight.com/in-line-spark-checker-63590.html There are several others at various price points available mail order or in store at most auto and RV parts stores.

Best I could give from a distance let te forum know when you solve the problem so others with a similar one can get an idea where to look for the possible cause. Good luck.I hope I helped.

It might be a weak spark problem on a cold engine. Cold engines require more power to turn over and start. The extra draw on the starter leaves a little less voltage for the spark. Is the spark plug fairly new and clean, gap on specs? Battery in good shape and all connections clean and tight so it can deliver full power?. Corrosion on the terminals can set up a resistance that causes voltage and current to drop under starting loads.

"Spins on starter". Does the motor turn over on the starter or does the starter just spin without turning over the motor? If the starter just spins without turning over the motor there is something wrong with the one way clutch between te starter motor and the motor. If the motor turns over without starting then look for a faulty relay or broken wire between the relay or other connection in the ignition circuit. Usually if it is the neutral safety switch the starter will not spin. If the motor starts fine using the pull start you know the ignition is good. There should be a wiring diagram in the download section of the forum to help you trace out the circuits.

This is a lot late for the earlier posters with huge lots to mow. Has anyone with fields to mow of about 2 acres or more thought of renting/ leasing the fields to a farmer for hay cropping? Here in B.C. if a farmer who makes his main income from farming rents/leases farm fields for any farm purpose the land owner is able to claim farm rate taxes on the rented lands. It makes a considerable difference on the taxes we pay. I rented 2 1/2 acres of my 3 acre property to the neighbour farmer. He cropped the field for hay, I got $600 yearly for the land use plus saved nearly half on my property taxes. Something worth looking into if your state or province has a similar program.

Have fun in your fantasy land fellas. The world is wrong. Only the extreme right has all the answers. tRump is not a narcissist that only cares about himself. His administration is not full of incompetent toadies and none of them from tRump down have never done anything illegal or unethical. The COVID deaths in the US have not been compounded by tRump's incompetence and denials from the start. Someday reality is going to hit home and it's going to hurt.

I'll leave it to you tRump lovers to figure that out for yourselves. I'll give you a hint from history. Study Hitlers rise to power in te 1930's and notice the parallels to tRump's four years. Nothing I can point out to you from Canada will do anything to swing you away from the garbage the far right and extreme right has been feeding you; and it's obvious you don't follow mainstream news feeds.

The pdf you included was an article from The Economist. In my searches looking for this so called 100,000 votes all for Biden , I only found articles that said there were 100,000 mail ins yet to count. I kinda think one of your conspiracy theorists twisted that to claim all were counted and for Biden rather than there were 100K left to be counted. Feel free to post an article from mainstream to show one polling stationreported 100k votes and all for Biden.

How do you get 100,000 votes all for Biden from a county that voted 68% Biden 30% Trump? Trump should at least get 1 vote. YouGov poll of 1500 voters said 25% of conservatives were planning to vote by mail. Page 29 https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/1qb5j6pdqd/econTabReport.pdf Isn't it interesting that only the Economist, a UK based paper group is making that claim. Have fun with your conspiracy theories. No mainstream media are making that claim and state courts are tossing out tRump's suits claiming voter fraud without ANY supporting evidence. I have found nothing from legitimate Michigan sources making that claim or even from mainstream Republicans.

I guess we'll see who is right and who is in fantasy land soon. I can guarantee I'm not the one who would be needing tissues if somehow tRump prevails. As I mentioned earlier the mailed in ballots were more for Bide than tRump simply because the Dems urged mail voting with the pandemic in mind and your orange god urged in person voting to his cult. In person counted first and mail in later and because of the volume it took days. Mail in voting in the US or here and other democracies at use it has never been shown to have any significant illegal voting and none of it affecting the outcome. I strongly doubt there will be any found beyond the normal errors found in any mail in campaign. All the illegal activity is only in the minds of the conspiracy theorists and their gullible followers.

Pfizer released news their vaccine is showing 90% efficacy in the study. It is still far from release. There are other vaccines also showing similar promise and neither tRump nor any other politician can take credit for those developments. There is still a long way to go to release. Hopefully it will be sometime in 2021. There has never been any proven amount of illegal voting with mail in votes. It is used in several countries alongside in person voting without a problem. Even tRump insisted they keep counting mail in votes in ridings where he was behind , just as he insisted in stopping the count where he was ahead. It will be interesting to see how tRump fares once he is out of office. There are several lawsuits pending and even some federal charges possible over taxes and other activity. Remember the "unindicted co-conspirator" in the 2016 election meddling ? He is that man. As I said in the previous post . After January 20 you might just start seeing the real Donald tRump.

Biden's numbers are going u because they are counting the earl and mail in votes.There are a lot more mail in votes for Biden simpl because Biden and the Dems encouraged earl and mail in voting which was wise ,especially with the COVID pandemic. It limited the contact and exposure of the voters. tRump discouraged mail in and early voting and pushed in person voting on election day. Those votes got counted first so were naturally heavy in favour of him. The record levels of early and mail in votes favour Biden because most of those voters took the sensible advice to vote early and by mail and reduce the chances of exposure to or passing of the COVID virus. .It's really not rocket science and there was no fraud about it. I see this post didn't go , so I can update it now. Jacob, you don't know how close the US came to fascism and disaster under tRump. I suggest you get away from the crap of the extreme right and join the real world. The military industrial complex has done of brainwashing too many Americans. Hopefully after January 20 you'll begin to learn just who and what Donald Trump really is. It would do well for you to learn the difference between social programs in a democracy and socialism/ communism.

Biden's numbers are going up because they are counting the earl and mail in votes.There are a lot more mail in votes for Biden simpl because Biden and the Dems encouraged earl and mail in voting which was wise ,especially with the COVID pandemic. It limited the contact and exposure of the voters. tRump discouraged mail in and early voting and pushed in person voting on election day. Those votes got counted first so were naturally heavy in favour of him. The record levels of early and mail in votes favour Biden because most of those voters took the sensible advice to vote early and by mail to reduce the chances of exposure to or passing of the COVID virus. .It's really not rocket science and there was no fraud about it

I'm afraid it is far from over. WEAR the masks and listen to Fauci if you want that part of it to be over. I'm 77 and have never seen the division and turmoil like has been created by that incompetent narcissist and his enablers. Neither the civil rights movement nor the Vietnam War of the '60's polarized the US the way tRump and the ERW of the GOP have and I'm afraid they have created and fostered some very dangerous extremist movements. I'm not religious, but I'm praying for my friends and family on both sides of our border that I'm wrong. If you haven't voted yet , think long and hard and vote your conscience but get out there and vote. Now more than ever it is more important to vote the issues rather than the party line.

LOL You think Biden's gaffes make him unfit?. How about your own ? Listen to what tRump says. Gaffes and semi-literacy examples are well sprinkled among his lies and plenty of them. Remember his "Super duper hydrosonic missile "? Just one of the latest in a long line of examples if you listen for them. If you judge Biden by slips of the tongue that we all commit sometimes too often then you must consider tRump to be unfit to be a latrine orderly ,let alone President.

How do you think that is better than our universal system? I suspect if you checked into what your company pays to provide less coverage to you than the taxes they and you would pay under our system you would find your company would actually be paying less . Cost to you for your daughter's check up under our system on top of what was paid in taxes for the system? $0.00

Business taxes pay a big part of our universal health care but so do income taxes. It is not all on businesses. It's useless trying to explain the fact that health care expenses for both business and individuals is actually cheaper in our universal systems than it is under your for profit system, The brainwashing the military/ industrial complex and the ERW have been giving Americans for the last century has been far too effective. Too bad there are too few who remember the tax system of the late '40's through to the beginning of the '60's that actually encouraged businesses and the rich to invest in the US and the boom it created. Those days are long gone. They started going away with business's "tax reforms" and really accelerated with Reagan and the decline continues with the rich getting richer and the erosion of the middle class those "reforms" have created. But of course all that is fake news to the true believers.

I doubt Hunter Biden would have been stupid enough to drop a laptop off for repair if it contained evidence of wrongdoing on his part. Would you? tRump is not the businessman he makes himself out to be. The proof of that may not be long in coming. tRump's donating his presidential salary is a red herring. He is making far more than that steering government events trough his businesses.The money he makes staying in his own facilities and charging the security that must accompany far exceeds his salary; and then there are the other costs for his far too frequent golfing trips at his own facilities. I know how we live in our country with universal health care and environmental regulations. The rest of the west would also very likely compare themselves very favourably with the US also. You really need to seek better information on life and standards of living in western countries outside the US. One example you might compare is our cost in taxes to support our "free" health care with the real cost in premiums, co-pays and other costs of your for profit system. finally you must realize there are no truly communist countries no matter how you want to name their systems. Every business is capitalist whether privately or government owned. Even China operates on a capitalist system despite their communist tag; and no, I would not want to live under their government controls. They try to physically control what the west largely controls with the almighty dollar. Every service the government supplies is a form of socialism. You confuse social responsibility with socialism. If you are a Christian you are worshiping someone who was a far left "socialist" in his teachings. Without socialism you would have to build your own roads, maintain your own security, health and welfare and exist without the help of any other person. as soon as you form a community and divide responsibilities you are instituting socialism.

Biden suffers from the same kind of attacks and false accusation from the right ,and I have no doubt certain foreign operators. Loose cannons rolling around on deck crashing into things have resulted in more than one sunk ship. I definitely don't share your view of Biden or what you think his agenda is. I know enough of the workings of our respective governments to know a lot te accusations against him use statements taken out of context to try to blame him for things done by Congress and the Senate that he had no real control of even though he was supposed to be steering the legislation. ..it's the polls in the Congress and Senate that determine the final wording and results, no matter how he or any other committee head would like to see it go. For example Obama care would have been far different than what you got if there had not been so many concessions and changes made to the right and far right ruling the GOP just to get even that flawed First step towards the universal health care enjoyed by the rest of the Western world. I won't bother to try to debate you Quadmaniac. I see your version of the last 4 years is very different than most others. and compared to what is happening and has happened in the US in the last 4 years the rest of the west is doing very well. I'll take our COVID statistics and responses over those under tRump any day. Oil prices are governed by international markets , not by anything tRump or the US oil industry has done for another example. I'll leave it at that .

I meant to include this video with my request for an explanation of just how anyone can support him with all the evidence and his own words and actions supporting the accusations against him. It's only his tenure in the White House keeping him from facing charges for many things, including his "unindicted co-conspirator" charge in the 2016 election corruption. The real "fake news" comes from Fox and other right wing and extreme right sites on the internet. November 3 is fast approaching . Think long and hard before you vote; but get out there and vote either for or against tRump and his enablers. Make you voice heard where it counts. https://youtu.be/NX-DdOUlcqs

Please explain to this Canadian how anyone can support the most incompetent and corrupt individual to ever hold the Presidency of the U. S. of A. I cannot understand how he can hold such a cult as he has worshiping him.