Reply To: Recoil Question – 1991 15 HP Johnson

[David Stanton]

I haven’t taken the assembly apart yet to see if there are nicks or rough surfaces, but, based on what you said, I think it just needs a good cleaning, because very little finger pressure on the part causes it to rise up fine, and once it starts rising, it easily goes up all the way without my finger on it. I was getting a lot of grease on the rag when I tried to do a quickie cleaning out of the groove the spring goes in with a rag over a small screwdriver blade. I’ll take the recoil assembly out and clean those parts good. I have five of these motors with mega-hours on them from a failed resort, so I’ve had the assemblies out before, dealing with broken rewind springs, ropes, and related issues, so I know how they come apart. Also have removed the recoil assemblies, putting a nut under them to hold together, to get at carburetor mounting nut.

Once it’s clean, would it be a good idea to slightly rough-up the spring-groove in art #5 with some light sandpaper?

Thx for the info!
Dave