I'm going to replace the stock seat belts with a 4 point seat harness. Question I have is once I remove the stock seat belts how do I fool the system into thinking the stock belts are locked in? I know there are seat belt over rides available but does the 500 require one?

Problem solved. The linkage needed adjusting. The two lock nuts were not tightened. All is well now. Now I'll do a good cleaning since I have the panels off. The dust in Colorado and Utah is super fine.

Well I got my starting problem fixed and took it to Colorado and Utah for a couple weeks of fun and frustration. The 500 ran great and once I got the suspension setup correctly I could run like a bat out of hell on the dirt roads. BUT...the first day we got on a gnarly trail we shouldn't have been on. It was nothing but large rocks. Thus in the process of shifting from high to low I lost the ability to shift to low gear and thus smoked the drive belt a couple times. I am assuming I can remove some interior panels to access the shifter linkage and pray an adjustment is all I need. Question is has anyone had this problem and if so what was your fix?

Figured out my problem or should I say the tech figured it out. It had jumped time. The timing chain tensioner was bad and the chain was stretched. It had only 423 miles on it at the time it wouldn't rank. They didn't have a tensioner in stock and I was heading to Colorado and Utah the next day to ride there was no time to order a new one. So the tech changed the automatic tensioner to a manual one. It worked...I put a lot of miles on the 500 and had no problems. Now I have to decide to leave it the way it is now or replace the chain and tensioner.

Have charged the battery...air filter is new...tried starting in different gears. The only thing we can think of is the ECU needs to flashed or replaced. It acts like it has jumped timing but as I said the chain has good tension and the gear is good. Thank you for your suggestions. Hopefully the dealer can figure it out.

No flashing lights. Timing chain is good...no broken teeth on the cam gear and the chain has good tension. The fuel pump is running and we have a good spray. We can not verify compression...our compression gauge won't fit the sparkplug hole...too big. And the rubber gauge we have is a POS. But as I said all valves are closed on the compression stroke. We suspect the ECU but don't have any way to check it. Taking it to the dealer tomorrow. Hopefully it is something simple. This has us baffled.

I've read several won't start posts but my issue seems to be different. I had a new keys made and wanted to verify it would work. I cranked the machine...it started...I immediately cut it off. Inserted the other key and it worked. But the machine sounded like it wanted to start but didn't. I pulled the plug and it was wet. I cleaned it and verified the gap but no start. So I called a couple friends over. We verified it had fire and fuel. Took the injector out to make sure it was spraying correctly...it was. Removed the air filter and checked it...almost new. Oh...machine has 400 miles on it and was dealer serviced at 300. We tried to crank it with no air filter...no luck. BUT...We are getting exhaust out the intake. So...we checked the valves to insure they are closing on the compression stroke. They are and have good clearance. But it acts as if it is firing 180 degrees out. So I replaced the crank position sensor...no luck. Checked the fuses...good. Flipped kill switch several times...no luck. I'm out of options...any ideas.