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jim Witham
Member
Username: bookworm
Post Number: 6
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 09:53 am: | 
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In a previous post I described how my starter cord broke when it improperly retracted back inside the engine and lodged against a hot engine part and melted through. I brought the engine back to the dealer who replaced the starter cord.
The engine was fine until last week when I pulled the cord to start the engine out on the water and the handle pulled away from the cord and the cord disappeared inside the engine. I thought: WHAT THE HELL!!!??? Back home, I found a diagram for the starter cord and saw that a knot should have been tied in the cord inside the handle to keep it from pulling through the hole in the handle. Well, someone forgot to tie that knot. So I pulled apart the handle and tied the knot. By hand, I retracted the starter cord around the fly wheel by turning the spring-loaded device up inside the engine. I removed the spark plug (since I was in my back yard and didn't want the engine to actually start) and pulled the cord to test it. Well, it only retracted partially back inside the engine. I retracted it fully several times right up to the handle. But each time I pull on it, I'm left with about two feet of starter cord outside the engine. What do I need to do to get it to properly retract all the way around the fly wheel? |
Tohatsu Guru
Senior Member
Username: tohatsu_guru
Post Number: 1046
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 10:22 am: |
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Looking at the white plastic reel you should see a notch in it. You put the starter rope in the notch and then turn the reel which coils the starter spring. I would suggest you let the dealer who goofed it up do it. Anytime a tech has to correct their own mistake it makes them more careful for future repairs. |
jim Witham
Member
Username: bookworm
Post Number: 7
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 07:58 pm: |
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Thanks, I'll fool around with it some but probably take your advice and bring it back to the guy who supposedly fixed it. |
jim Witham
Member
Username: bookworm
Post Number: 8
Registered: 10-2009
| | Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 03:48 pm: |
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I brought my engine back to the dealer. He said he definitely did tie a knot to at the end of the cord inside the handle; in fact, had used a small blowtorch to fuse the knot. However, he must have overdone it a bit. In any case, he and his assistant had to take the spring out and re-tighten it. Not a hard job but not one I would have wanted to do myself |
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