Reply To: ’53 Erude 3hp parts questions

[cron78]

Thanks Monte, Tubs and BobW.  The o-ring is installed.  I broke down and got a couple BRP o-rings so I have an OEM part now to use to find future o-rings that fit.

Today’s question:  I had to replace the pull cord and it seemed to work fine, except when testing for spark today something in the recoil let loose.  I have never opened up a recoil before and when I got it apart the spring wasn’t completely coiled where it was supposed to be.  The attached pic shows what it looks like now that I bent the spring back to only coil in one direction.  When I opened it up the part of the spring at the serial # in the attached pic was actually bent on the other side of the center and the catch loop (for lack of a better term) was pointing in the opposite direction.  I bent it back to coil in the concentric direction but I didn’t want to keep bending if I was doing something wrong.  I am guessing that I need to carefully bend it a bit more to get the catch loop closer to the center so that the pin on the starter pulley will catch the loop when I reassemble.  Assuming it needs to look like the one n the attached YouTube pic.  Is that correct?

Any hints will be appreciated.

Cron

Hopefully this isn’t a repost…I lost my first attempt somehow.