Pulley Spring Assembly

The starter rope broke, as well as, I found out when I disassembled the housing, the pulley / spring assembly had also broken. I removed the entire shroud / cover, cleaned the assembly, removed the old pulley assembly and inserted the new one. Feed the starter rope into the pulley and tie off.
Have a screwdriver handy and turn the pulley assembly counter-clockwise until its taught, insert the screwdriver to keep the spring from unwinding and mount the shroud back to the engine. Once that's done, remove the screwdriver while keeping tension on the cord.
Reattach the cord to the mower handle.

1. Removed the cover on the engine.
2. Removed the housing for the recoil starter.
3. Unbolted the pulley and the starter spring.
4. Installed the pulley and the spring.
5. Rotated the pulley.
6. Used a screwdriver to hold the pulley with the spring compressed.
7. Fed the starter rope through the housing hole and the pulley hole.
8. Tied the knot to secure to the pulley.
9. Held the starter rope and removed the screwdriver.
10. Let the spring wind the starter rope.
11. Replaced the housings and started up the power washer.

Removed engine cover, gas tank and pull starter assembly.
Disassembled pull starter assembly.
Installed new parts in starter assembly and rewound starter rope.
Reinstalled pull starter assembly, gas tank and engine cover.

Removed starter assembly from engine.
Cut starter rope.
Removed starter pulls assembly.
Removed rope from pully.
Made sure spring on new pully caught on housing.
Tightened spring and threaded on starter rope.
Recoiled rope about 1/2 way and attached pull grip.
Recoiled rope fully and tested pull and recoil.
Reattached starter assembly to engine.
Engine started in one pull.

put the new pulley on the shaft so the spring was hooked then wound the pulley a few turns counter clockwise and held it in place with a screw driver. Fed the new rope in and tied it the held the rope and slowly let the pulley wind the rope on to it. Then put the fly wheel cover on the engine and started the engine with one pull.
A small sheet of instructions came with the parts so no mistakes were made on winding the spring.

1. Removed the pull cord assembly from engine, 4 bolts.
2. Wound cord on new spring assembly.
3. Installed new spring assembly.
4 Installed pull cord assembly on engine.
5. Took up the slack in the cord at the handle by shortening the cord.
6. Cranked the engine

Disassembled after watching a u tube video, reinstalled pawl, rewound the spring and reassembled. Was very pleased with the order and fast response. Would definitely order from you again when I need a part.

Remove the engine shroud and then remove three bolts holding the gas down. Loosen another bolt left rear & down of the gas tank and you can tilt the gas tank back w/o removing it completely. Then remove another bolt holding the oil fill tube, pull up slightly and turn to the side so that it clears the engine cover. Remove 4 bolts holding the engine cover/pulley spring assembly and lift it up slowly(make sure you recall how it is mounted over some engine flanges). Remove a bolt holding down the Pawl friction plate over the pulley spring assembly and lift up on the assembly carefully as it contains the recoil starter spring. I then discovered that my new pulley spring assembly had the anchoring loop (the one that anchors on the center tab of the engine cover) looping to the right. My original spring looped to the left. I then had to use two needle nose pliers to carefully grab the spring loop and bend it around to the left making a new anchoring loop. This was very time consuming as you have to be careful of the spring not uncoiling. Once you done the new loop, bent the spring loop towards the center of the coiled spring so that it can catch on the center tab of the engine cover. Once you insert the pulley spring assembly, turn it counter clockwise until tight and then turn it back one turn to release some tension. You have to stick a small screwdriver in-between the pulley assembly and one of the slots in the engine cover to keep the spring from uncoiling. You them align the rope hole in the pulley with the rope hole in the engine cover and insert the new rope, grab it with needle nose and pull it, giving you some slack to tie the knot. You can now release the rope slowly (make sure you have the pull rope handle attached to the other end of rope) until the rope winds completely. You now attach cover back onto engine, making sure it fits correcting onto its location. You can now reattach all other parts in reverse of how you took them off. If you have a digital camera or phone, take pictures before or as you unassemble the engine, so you can remember what goes where.

Initial problem was snapped rope& pulley spring. Decided to do other maintenance like cleaning carb well, draining & cleans gas container, air filter, general over-all cleaning of motor, replacement of pulley spring assembly.
Started by removing exterior housing, air filter holder, carb float bowl, gas tank and old pulley/spring assembly.
Replaced old pulley spring assembly and new rope.
Re-assembled unit, adjusted idle.
Good as new ! No problems.
Had 2 units to repair - similar except one replaced non- Autochoke carb
Doing your own maintenance on simple engines like these are a snap and saves many $s. Just need right tools and be willing to get hands dirty and an easy place to get replacement parts.

Had to remove old pulley and attached broken spring and replace it with new unit.
The trick was to not let the spring unwind from the pulley.
The hardest part was to place the pulley on the motor and with spring upside down you have to get the end of spring to grab a stationary post.
You also had to be sure the pull rope was wrapped perfect length on pulley for it to be right length after everything is assembled.