05 Polaris Edge lost reverse - Snowmobile Forum: Your #1 Snowmobile Forum

paul4 · 01-10-2013, 05:54 PM

Went out last Sunday and used the sled, both forward and reverse. On the way back to the house, I stopped and had to back up. When I pushed the reverse button, the yellow light flashed, but nothing happened. The engine didn't slow, just kept on going at idle. Pulled it around and went home, and tryed it out again. Same thing, no reverse no change in engine speed. Checked and charged the battery just to make sure, checked to see if any thing was lose, and still the same. What should I be looking for/check?

**smallengineguy** · 01-10-2013, 06:15 PM

Check the wiring going from the switch to the engine to make sure nothing came disconnected. If the light comes on then the switch is partially good. It's probably a double pole switch and one of the poles might be bad.

paul4 · 01-12-2013, 02:37 PM

Looked over all the wiring in the handle bar area, and took off the switch cluster on the left grip ware the reverse button is. The cluster is just that , a cluster, and the switch is inside of it along with the hand grip warmer controls and high beam switch. It will not come apart any more unless I break something. All the wires I've seen in their look good, but which wires go to the reverse button? Is their a wiring diagram available?

paul4 · 01-21-2013, 04:44 PM

I dropped off the sled Thursday night at the dealer. Got a call late Friday afternoon, about 4:45 that it was done. Didn't have a chance to pick it up until this afternoon. Dealer basicly did the same think I did, checked the switch, checked the wires, all proved to be good. He was starting to consider the ECU, but decided to check the engine idle first. For some reason with the engine warm, my idle would drop low, to around 1200 rpm. He adjusted the carbs and moved the idle up to 1600 rpm, and now everything works great. Let it warm up for about 3 minutes when I got there, and went from forward to reverse and back about 8 times, engine stalled once at about the 6th time. Hit start and did it a few more times with out a problem. I really didn't think that a low idle would stop the engine from going into reverse, but in this case it does. Pushing on the thorttle would not fix this because the engine has to be at idle, the TPS would sense the pressure and not allow the engine to go into reverse.