Saving Old Seagulls

Gentlemen,

Thank you very much for your help! All is revealed - the picture of what I thought of as the starter pulley cracked it.

When turned upside down the "pulley" becomes a cup and the inside edge showed a lot of vertical score marks - from the flappy bits that emerge from
the recoil ...

Hi Blokewithaboat!

Thanks very much for your help : I have one with cdi ignition that is totally enclosed.

Before dismantling the recoil worked fine and turned the flywheel as expected.

When dismantling the main body of the recoil so that I could clean up the ignition system (not entirely ...

I have a 1979 EFPC 495CCO. After lots of TLC I have reassembled the complete recoil starter on top of the starter pulley unit on top of the flywheel.

The recoil is fine (no spring broken or anything : it did not need to be dismantled) . I did give it's mechanism a squirt of WD 40.

However, when I ...