Starter Pulley

The challenging part was winding the coil spring into its housing and getting it anchored. I used the pulley itself on a flat surface to wind the spring into its housing cover. Then it stayed in place in its housing cover which I next placed in the housing and forced the spring end into the slot in the housing. Of course the pull rope had already been secured to the pulley. The pulley spring had to be wound up before passing the pull rope through the casing hole and clamping it to keep the spring from unwinding before securing the pull handle to the rope.

Simple operation. Remove the handle and flywheel cover, replace starter pulley, carefully rewinding the spring. Repair took about 20 minutes. Thanks for the speedy delivery on the part.

1. Remove the cover.
2. Remove the starter pulley (recoil spring will follow use care).
3. Remove the starter rope from the pulley.
4. Rewind the recoil spring, (this is the hardest part) back into the top of the trimmer housing.
5. Make sure to lube the recoil spring.
6. Reassemble.

Dissembled to remove and replace the starter pulley

removed 3 allen screws from rear cover

removed 4 torx screws from forward side of engine housing releasing engine from shaft.

disconnected throttle cable from carburetor

set motor aside, removed 2 screw from pulley keepers

remove pulley and spring.

place new spring in metal housing, taking care to hold spring in place in its housing place the unit into the recess in engine housing so that the exposed hook on spring goes into its slot in the recess.

oay close attention to how the pull string is attached to the pulley or take a photo of it.
remove the string from the old pulley and attach it to the new one.

place the pulley overtop of the spring so that the hook on the inner part of the coil spring goes into the slot on the pulley.

put the pulley keepers and screw back in

The tricky part is winding the spring so that it will roll up the string a youtube video can show you better than I can explain it.

re-connect the throttle cable and re-install the engine in the reverse order that you disassembled it.

wound the starter pulley all the way up and secure

Re-installing the starter pulley was a cake walk.......the hard part was the recoil spring! In taking apart the unit to see why my pull start, stopped pulling, I had taken off the cover and right off the bat I could see the plastic starter pulley had a huge chunk missing and it was done for. I removed the starter pulley and was introduced to the re-coil spring up close and personal like. I ordered my replacement part (and just like in the past Ereplacement parts were awesomely quick!!) My part arrived and my weeds were already to high and certain loved ones were already moaning about my mini rain forest, that was in the process of taking over the front and back yards! So I went to the usual library YouTube to get the easy way to wind the spring back up and I thought I found quick and easy ways.....not! Once put into the real world, it wasn't practical, I think some videos were made just to make a video on you tube and others were videos that would get the job done, but took the task up into the "HARD" OR "EXPERT" levels. After some blood, sweat and a big handful of colorful metaphors (or 2) I grabbed a magnet from a old hard drive I had laying around (any decent magnet would work) and stuck it to the underside of the recoil spring casing and I was able to easily wind the spring back in the casing with out any problem what so ever!!!! And it held it in place securely until I needed it!! It will make you fell like a boss! And if you spring casing is plastic (mine was metal) it will still help you hold it in while your winding it back in, you just need to put the casing on top of the magnet for a couple of winds and then you'll be able to pick it up (or not) to finish off the job! I hope this helps everyone who has to tackle this task as I did, this will cut the time down.

1. Disassembled the trimmer.
2. Cleaned the trimmer.
3. Removed the string.
4. Removed the pully.
5. Removed the spring cartridge.
6. Installed the new spring cartridge.
7. Installed the new pulley assembly.
8. Installed the new string.
9. Reassembled the trimmer.

1. Removed starter pulley and spring along with rope.
2. Installed new spring and holder
3. Applied lithium grease to shaft before installing rope pulley
4. Installed pulley and rewound tension on spring
5. Reassembled string trimmer

Carefully removed the old pulley, lubed and installed the new pulley.