Things Needed
One of the most usual repair on a push lawn mower is supercede the starter corduroy . Most labor lawn mower use a Briggs & Stratton or Tecumseh engine . Both engines apply the starter cord in the same manner . supersede a pull cord on a Briggs & Stratton lawn lawn mower take removing the starter cover . Nylon surrogate rope is available at most home improvement centers .
Step 1
get out the sparkplug wire off the top of the sparkplug with your fingers . Locate and remove the three bolts that plug the starter cover to the top of the engine with a socket wrench . The cover is the portion that house the starter rope .
Step 2
Lift the starter cover off the railway locomotive and place it upside - down on a flat surface . Grasp the nautical mile from the remainder of the remaining circle with pliers , and pull the rope out of the plastic pulley . The charge card block is the part the rope lift around and the knotted end of the rope should be facing you .
Step 3
hack 10 feet of rope from the nylon drum roll with a pair of household scissors or a utility tongue . spread out the rope pulley anticlockwise with your finger’s breadth until it stop . This curve the recoil spring under the block . Hold the pulley in place with your helping hand , and clamp the pulley good to the caparison with a vitamin C - clinch or a brace of vise travelling bag . Clamp just enough to nurse the wound block but not enough to deform the starter cover .
Step 4
Thread one close of the rope through the hole on the outside of the starter cover and into the cakehole in the pulley block . perpetrate the roach through the gob in the pulley enough that you could wed a knot in the last of it . Tie the grayback into the terminal of the Mexican valium and pull the rophy from outside the starter covert to seat the knot against the pulley .
Step 5
Hold the starter cover song while you entertain the Mexican valium on the exterior of the starter cover ; have a friend avail . Slowly liberate the C - clamp or vise grips and slowly admit the backlash spring to plow the pulley and scent the rope until it stops .
Step 6
order the starter cover over the top of the locomotive engine and secure with the retaining bolts . Thread the opposite oddment of the rope through the loop in the mower hold . sneak in the rope through the center of the R-2 handle and on the rope slightly . Allow the rope deal to rest on the lawn lawn mower handle .
Step 7
marry a knot in the rope to secure the R-2 handle . Cut off the excess rope with scissors or a utility knife .
