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As earlier said, I checked the connections on my Coleman 550 on Friday 12/12, and I believe mystery is solved. The starter is definitely kaput, but the fault lies with me. Upon examining - cleaning connections, I discovered a second ground connection at the starter, in addition to the ground connection on the frame. The battery connection and wire for this second ground had fallen through the opening in the battery compartment and was just laying loose below the compartment out of site. I believe this happened in my haste to replace the original battery with the O'Reilly battery and the OVERSIGHT continued with the installation of the second "higher cca" Interstate battery and the new solenoid. My continuing to start the UTV with a sluggish starter by jumping the battery or using a higher CCA battery burned the starter out. The starter was not getting enough voltage to it without that 2nd ground. This happened to me once before with a tractor starter, but I guess I didn't learn. I was desperate to keep the utv going feeding cattle, now we're feeding with the pickup and an extra hand. The UTV is in the shop getting a new starter. Thanks for all the imput!

He did say in a later post that the new battery is a 385cca so in theory it should be enough. It runs and when it does start he said it ran great, so that there says it just in the starter area, battery, starter, etc. If it's always been a hard starter then got worse with time kinda wonder if the manufacturer just under specked the starter or it missed the QC guy when they made it. I don't have a Coleman so I didn't really check the forums if anyone else mentioned theirs being a hard starter so not sure if it's a thing or not. I have a 500 engine so it should be similar so I'm curious what size my battery is but not enough to take off a dozen screws or so to take the hood off to see what it is!