Spring And Container 638033001

I just simply removed the starter pulley, spring and container and replace it, it works like new now !

First I would like to thank Mark and all his useful videos, without which I would have never been able to do this. His videos provided clear procedures that were easy to follow, and he puts on a better, more professional video with each new one he produces.
There are differences between the BC30 that I have and the SS30 in the video, so I would like to take this opportunity to go over the differences with anyone else who has this model.
1. The clutch drum takes a T20 Torx head driver, not a T25 used in the video, but the rest of the fasteners are T25.
2. The starter spring goes face down against the plastic ribs with the metal cover covering it, so the spring is not visible other than its center tab showing through the hole in the cover plate. The part is shown this way in the parts lists, too. Then you can set the 6-7 turn preload in a clockwise (vice a clockwise) fashion, attach your starter cord, and the cord will retract properly (counter clockwise). For this part it's a definitely good to have a helper when tying the cord, I'm just not good at one handed tying like Mark.
3. Mine uses the two clutch plates, too. Put the first one on in a reverse shape like Mark does, and the second in a normal. This way the two clutch plate surfaces with the small dimple will be facing each other. The dimples don't have to exactly face each other, just the surfaces, so even if the dimples are 180 off it's still ok.
4. I use mine as a pole saw and have several other Expand-it attachments, so make sure the clutch drum engages properly with the drive pin inside the pole and doesn't get positioned off center.
5. If your trimmer won't start, try reversing the electrical leads to the cutoff switch, they are not marked. The right way it will start (eventually), the wrong way it will never start.

Also replaced the fuel tank the lines were cracking and sucking air, making priming impossible. The tank comes with the lines pre attached and Mark has a useful video on this, too. Also cleaned the carburetor with carburetor cleaner and cleaned the sponge style air filter. Now it runs and drives the saw again!

Removed starter rope pulley, spring container and spring. Installed new container and spring and replaced pulley, tensioned spring, replaced starter rope, installed baffle over pulley, and re-assembled trimmer. Starter recoil now works great!

Make sure you have;
spline screwdrivers
13/16 socket
Drill two holes in the fan so you can hold it in place while taking off the shaft nut
Clean all parts before assembly
Follow arrow as to the direction to wind the new rope

1. Watched e Replacement video (you Tube) of starter assembly replacement procedure for same Ryobi powerhead as my pole saw.
2. Followed the steps as shown and ended up with a starter that worked backwards. It spun the motor as it recoiled the rope into the housing.
3. Quickly determined that the spring installation in the video is backwards, the coiled spring should not be visible- the spring casing should face out.
4. Reassembled and pole saw started on the first pull.

Took boom off disconnected kill wires and throttle wire.Removed torx screws on starter housing 4 at face 2 at top back.the starter pulley had separated and the spring inside starter pulley (2piece) had jumped out of the hole it fits in to hold everything in place and cut groove in it. Put new spring and container and starter pulley in housing put everything back together..and 1st pull same problem. Could not see anything wrong so short of buying complete starter housing( discontinued) I started from scratch threw everything into it new baffle another spring and starter pulley so far all is working well. Now! to back up a bit..this all started as I was trimming and took a break when I pulled to crank it the yellow handle on starter rope busted from age and rope flew back into housing so to sum it up..i think it bent baffle because this seemed to be the area causing my problem!

1. Separated the trimmer shaft to make handling unit easier then Disassembled the case from the outside of the engine.
2. Removed spark plug and interred end of plastic tie wrap to bind cylinder while loosening clutch assembly fro front of engine.
3. Removed starter housing and removed spring retainer
4. Cut pull handle from old string and saved for reuse.
5. Removed old spring and starter pulley.
6. Assembled new spring and new starter pulley and wound starter rope.
7. Places new assembly into starter housing ensuring spring notch was positioned in the grove, turned assembly and spring to apply 3 turns of tension on spring, feed starter rope thru hole and applied small vise grip on outside of rope to hold Spring tension.
8. Reinstalled spring retainer, pulled starter rope to fully wind spring to its max and moved the vise grip to a position on the rope closest to the starter housing to hole spring tension while knitting the pull handle in place.
9. Removed the vise grip and ensured the starter rope retracted into the housing correctly.
10. Installed starter housing, clutch assembly, spark plug, engine cover and reassembled the trimmer head to shaft.

Used parts diagram from this site.
Main trick was a clutch removal from the shaft.
I didn't realize that a clutch is threaded to the shaft and broke it during removal.
New clutch from this site actually shows an arrow that indicates a direction of rotation for a clutch to be removed. Original clutch didn't have that.

used You Tube video

Removed recoil assy from housing
Replaced worn / broken parts
Rewound new pull cord
re assembled all to housing