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My 2007 Foreman ES quit shifting on me about 1hr into a nice leasurely ride today. Was stuck in 3rd gear. Shut it down for a few minutes then tried again, no luck still stuck in third. 10 miles from the nearest civilization and no cell service, thank god for the backup shifter. Limped it back to the truck, disgusted, only about 250miles on it and already problems with the ES. Seems to be a lot of problems with the ES. You would think Honda would have some recalls or plans to fix some of the problems. The code is 3 flashes which I guess means a problem with the angel sensor. I do not ride it hard, I have never been through anything more than a little mud puddle so far, and today's ride was all on smooth gravel roads/maintained ATV trails. The only thing a little different was a couple of real long steep hills where I used the engine breaking to slow me a lot (this was just before the problem started).
Anyway Im not real happy with the ES, this is not my first problem, as it has not wanted to shift a couple brief times before. I would appreciate any info on how to proceed. I will start with just checking the angle sensor connections, maybe diconnect and reconnect. I have read the several post on here already but was hoping someone could summarize. I'm a bit confused with what "preloading" the sensor is and about the intial set up. If I just unplug the current one and then plug it back in is there anything special I need to do to it. If that doesn't work I would like to change it myself but I am not that mechanically inclined (my closest Honda dealer is 2hrs away)
Note: other than the shifting issue I really love the Foreman
Anyway Im not real happy with the ES, this is not my first problem, as it has not wanted to shift a couple brief times before. I would appreciate any info on how to proceed. I will start with just checking the angle sensor connections, maybe diconnect and reconnect. I have read the several post on here already but was hoping someone could summarize. I'm a bit confused with what "preloading" the sensor is and about the intial set up. If I just unplug the current one and then plug it back in is there anything special I need to do to it. If that doesn't work I would like to change it myself but I am not that mechanically inclined (my closest Honda dealer is 2hrs away)
Note: other than the shifting issue I really love the Foreman