Re: Replacing recoil starter spring, 1958 Lightwin

[chris-p]

Agree with Frank, I gave up long ago trying to put them in pre wound. Cut the bands, let it go straight, then start coiling CCW, ALWAYS keeping one hand on the spring to keep it from popping out at you

I put the housing upside down on a lazy susan, If you have a second person around makes it real easy if they turn the lazy susan while you handle the spring, but after a couple you learn to do it alone.

I personally find it easier to spin the housing, rather than the spring, as you don’t want that spring whipping around as you coil it in.

Of course, I use the lazy susan as most time im doing this it is after a full paint job and restoration and don’t want to scratch the paint on the recoil housing. IF you don’t care about that, just spin the housing around on the work bench.