Author Topic: Anybody Know About Mechanics of ATVs?  (Read 614 times)

I want to ask those of you who ride ATVs/Know about ATVs/Know about maunal transmissions for your advice on a problem my 2005 Raptor 350 has just recently had.

I went to load up my quad onto the trailer to go off-roading at a location. I turned the key, started it up, went to shift into 1st and noticed the engine making a bizarre and loud clicking noise. The clicking would go faster and faster depending on what gear I shifted to.

The quad would also not move. While in first I let out the clutch slowly waiting for it to catch but the quad would just rev as if it was in neutral. I can also let the clutch out completely in any gear and the quad won't stall, also as if it was in neutral.

Something i don't understand is nothing I can recall would have caused this. Last time I rode my Raptor, it performed fine. I got home and put it in my garage. Now out of nowhere it is making this clicking noise and won't move?

I uploaded a video of the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMeEbnyEey8

Personally I think it is a problem with the clutch that is preventing me from switching fully out of neutral and into a gear.

Any suggestions on what may be the problem for those of you who know about mechanics?

It sounds like there's something stuck in there. It doesn't sound grindy enough to be a broken transmission, seems like it's probably the clutch not engaging, as you said. My first suggestion would just be to check it for loose objects (and the clutch itself, of course).