 Today I'm going to show you how to install a starter on a Polaris 500. It's actually not too terrible. Right now I'm fortunate I've got the gas tank off and I removed the air box already, so you don't want to remove the air box. So what you want to do first is there is 10 millimeter bolt here, and that's where your power is sucked up to before you even attempt that, obviously make sure you disconnect the battery. You take that off, 10 millimeter bolt, and then I already loosened some of the sub just for video purposes, but there is another 10 millimeter bolt here and another one. Let's see. You'll be able to see it with this light. Another one right down there. Let me get the light position right. So I got these loosened already. I got my ground wire right to here. Pull that out. There's the ground wire. Get that out of the way and now you can see the other one. Another bolt down here. Before I remove that I just want to show you something. Pull your flywheel cover off. Make things easier because that's where your starter gear comes in and this little guy, which I think is my problem. Okay, so I'm back to the other side again. So I loosened this one. It's 10 millimeter bolt. So it's a little bit of a pain to get to, and you get that goofy hole or vent that comes out and remove that, which is a pain in the butt because Polaris put the clamp on the wrong side. You have to come in from this side to get to it with this cover in the way. It's really quite the chore. Okay, so I got the screw mostly out. I'm gonna have to flex on this a little bit to get it out because it's a longer bolt. Once you get that out of the way, this should just pop right out. It's a it's an o-ring holding it in place. I have to get a screwdriver and pry on it. All right, so this little ring right back in here. I see that and this guy is really seized on here. So I'm gonna wrap on a little bit with a hammer, see if I can't get it to pop off. She was definitely on this stubborn. I really had to pop and pry and she came out. It was all pretty rusty around that edge. I'm gonna clean that up. I actually had to wedge that pry bar in between that hole and here and wedge it on a pretty good back and forth for about five minutes. That's why I cut the film. So I'm gonna clean this all up and I'm gonna show you how I install it. Okay, so now with the starter out, I just rotate this this way. I can pull this out. This is okay. But seeing I got a new one with the kit, I'm gonna replace it. A little grease on there. Tap that in there. There we go. I got my new one. I actually had to leave this bolt in because it was just a little bit too long. So I'm gonna leave it halfway in and shove this back in. Before I do that, I'm gonna put some grease around here so I make sure that it's able to slide in and out. Okay, so if this all greased up, I even greased up the gear and my bolt right back here. You should just be able to push this back in. A little drop through that hole. I'm gonna have to set the camera down, but I'll be pushing this back in while I'm pushing it down. Got it shoved into place. I'm just gonna wiggle that in. Make sure that your gear is lined up with that gear. And then you just do the reverse. You tighten this nut up. Put your ground wire back on with that other bolt on right there. Then you'll hook your power up to your starter. Put your cover back on and you should be good to go. There's not much to it. I'm sorry if my video wasn't the greatest. It's kind of a tight spot. I just wanted to quick show you how it was done. Get the gist of it. There's really not much to it. So if you like my videos, I appreciate you guys watching. Hopefully you guys learned something. I just do this as a hobby and hope to help you guys out. And who knows, maybe one day I'll make some money off of YouTube, but subscribe if you liked it. I have other players fixes on here also probably about 40 videos. Anything from two strokes to four strokes. I don't know pretty much anything you want to know. So thanks for watching and hit the like button if you like it. Subscribe. I appreciate it. Until next time.