How to Repair a Lawn Mower Pull Cord

Replace a broken starter rope in a half hour.

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Introduction

Replace a broken starter rope on your lawnmower quickly and hands by post-obit this unproblematic step-by-step procedure.

Tools Required

Materials Required

  • New pull rope

You tug one terminal fourth dimension to get the lawnmower started, and suddenly the rope breaks and the end goes spinning into the hole. Don't blow a gasket. If you have even a tinge of mechanical aptitude, replacing a starter rope is pretty piece of cake. If the bound breaks—a rare issue, according to our repair proficient—the fix is a lot harder, and we recommend yous take the mower to a repair center.

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Project pace-by-step (4)

Step 1

Remove the Old Starter Rope

The outset footstep in repairing a pull cord is to remove the rewind assembly from the lawnmower. How you do this will vary depending on your lawnmower model, but it's usually held on by three or more than screws.

Some mowers have a shroud covering the top of the mower. On these, y'all'll take to search for and remove the screws that agree the shroud in place. If your rewind unit is held on by rivets instead of screws, see "No Screws?" below.

  • After you lot remove the rewind unit of measurement, flip it over and await inside to find the knotted finish of the cleaved rope.
  • Grab it with a pair of needle-nose pliers and pull it out. You'll thread the new replacement starter rope through this hole.

Remove

Footstep 2

No Screws?

Sometimes, rivets hold the rewind unit to the metal shroud. To access this kind of rewind unit of measurement, remove the bolts that concur the shroud to the engine. If the rivets are loose, drill them out and replace them with bolts and locknuts.

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Screws

Stride 3

Install a New Rope

Before you lot install the new rope, you have to rewind the bound by twisting the rope pulley in the aforementioned direction it goes when you lot pull on the rope. You'll know when you're turning the caster in the right management because information technology will get harder to turn.

  • Keep turning the pulley until you feel resistance and information technology won't turn easily.
  • Then let it unwind almost one-half to i revolution until the pigsty in the pulley lines upwards with the pigsty in the rewind housing.
  • Wedge a screwdriver against the pulley to continue the spring from unwinding while you thread the rope through the holes.
    • Pro Tip : With leather gloves on, melt the finish of the rope with a match. While the plastic is hot, give it a quick twist to create a pointed end so it'south easier to thread in.
  • Push button the end of the rope through both holes and necktie a knot.
  • Rut the knot a piddling bit with a match and pull it tight to keep it from coming undone.
  • Remove the screwdriver while y'all continue pressure on the caster with your finger, and gradually let the rope wind onto the bike.
  • You may have some extra rope to cut off after everything'due south back together. Mount the rewind unit and reinstall any shrouding or other parts you had to remove.

Replace

Footstep 4

Necktie a Knot

  • Put the handle on the rope and tie a knot. Position the knot and then that there's a piddling tension on the rope when you release the handle.
  • If the rope on your lawn mower extends upward the handle, make sure to place the rope handle in its terminal position before tensioning the rope slightly and tying the knot.
  • Allow the caster wind the rope back into the rewind.
  • Reinstall the rewind unit and any other parts you lot've removed.

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Originally Published: June 04, 2019