Polaris problems....

[Shough]

I have a 93 Polaris 350 which is almost identical to a 94 sportsman 400 and it quit yesterday. I know it's old but has always ran perfectly without a problem. Probably put 25 miles on it this weekend just tooling around the lease when it spit and sputtered a couple times and died. The motor seems locked up pretty good as the starter nor the pull rope can budge it. Any ideas what could have happened. I always premix oil and it ran like a top all weekend. Just not sure what could have let go that quickly.

If I have to rebuild the motor, I probably will but I really hate working on those things as nothing is easy to get to!

[SirWraithe]

Sounds like a piston ring may have broke and locked up in the cylinder wall. You should be able to rebuilt fairly easy. Really not much to those engines.

[Bily Lovec]

its a 2 stroke :-)

i dont know whats wrong with it, but I used to have one of those, its an awesome machine...
good luck

[Shadow]

Sounds like it's just tired and needs a breath of fresh life. Rebuild and drive on. My 91' Kawasaki is due a rebuild as well and I am finding the parts on EBAY ALOT cheeper than buying from the dealer.