AND - make sure you wind it in the right way.
No idea if it is possible to do it backwards on your mower but can
relate a story told by a fellow I once worked for.
Someone brought in a chainsaw that would not start.
The story told was that they had accidently poured chain oil into the
fuel tank.
Once they discovered this they dumped it etc but I guess it had clogged
up the fuel line and maybe the carb before they noticed their error.
In any event, they pulled and pulled on it trying to start it until they
broke the cord.
They took it to a shop and had a new one installed.
The shop could not get it to run and suggested it was going to need more
work than it was worth to fix it.
The owner took it to my friend who ran a different shop and had a
reputation of being able to fix anything.
He messed about with it on and off for days.
He discovered that:
If he took the starter off and turned the flywheel, he had spark.
If he put it back together and tried to start it, there was no spark.
He finally realized that the first shop had wound the cord in backwards
and so when he turned the flywheel by hand he was turning it the right
way but when he pulled on the cord, he was turning it backwards.
He rewound the cord in the right direction and it fired right up.
Randy
On 15/05/2013 8:04 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
Yup, annoying but fixable. Most shops consider this bread and butter.
Get new cord from a shop, it'll be the right diameter and won't come apart
because of layers moving against each other.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 15:54:57 -0400
From: dsereta...@yahoo.com
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Subject: [MBZ] OT: Lawnmower repair.
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Pull string broke. This is the second time. Now it's quite short and wound up
in the mechanism. Is this repairable?
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