A small tab on the pulley can cut your hand if you accidentally let go of the recoil starter when it is tensioned. Most recoil housings will be similar to this model.Ĭaution: Once you put tension on the pulley and spring, you will want to hold the housing securely. Repair the Recoil Starter The starter repaired in this video comes off a Briggs and Stratton engine. Visit our Briggs and Stratton parts page to find the right parts for your Briggs and Stratton starter. We used a Briggs and Stratton starter for this repair, but most starters will require the same steps. Your recoil starter may also fail because the pulley or recoil housing has worn and the spring no longer sits in the housing correctly. Luckily, when this happens, you can fix your recoil starter in about 20 minutes. In most cases, the recoil starter fails because the spring slides out of place, causing it to lose tension. When your lawnmower, string trimmer or other tool's pull cord goes slack, starting the engine becomes impossible. You can then tug on the rope to let the slip knot to release and you're done.As anyone who works with lawn equipment knows, small engine recoil starters eventually fail. Whether you start the engine with a pull rope or the turn of a key on an electric start motor, youre relying on the ignition system to produce a spark inside.
Having five feet of #4.5 rope at the ready with both ends burned and swiped (to prevent fraying) and a single overhand knot in one end (with little tail pulled through the knot) place the rewind starter upside down on your bench, while holding the pulley steady turn the housing (framework) of the starter clockwise as far as it will go, now hold the housing steady and back the pulley off as needed (never more than 7/8 turn back) so that the hole (tiny, the size of the rope) in the pulley is in line with the guide in the housing, thread the unknotted end of the rope into the pulley (inside outward) and then through the guide and pull the rope completely through, make a slip knot to temporarily keep the spring from retracting the rope back in to the pulley and then thread the rope through your pull grip and tie a double overhand knot and pull the knot into the pull grip knot cavity. So I played around with the carburetor and could get it to run a bit better, but nowhere adequate enough to edge efficiency without it dying every 15 seconds. If not, then you must have had the rope pull (break) off cleanly and the knot must have disappeared. My neighbor gave me his old Troy-Bilt gas edger with a 3.5 HP Tecumseh engine because it barely ran. You should see a knot at the pulley end of the rope still in the pulley. If all you need to do is to replace the rope (and not the spring and/or pulley) then there is no need to disassemble anything.
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