The pull cord on my trimmer pulled out, but did not recoil. It is new this year. Any thing I can do to get it to recoil?

SOURCE: Pull cord all the way out, and will not recoil

I started to take mine apart but when i loosened the 4 screws on the yoke the string rewound so ive been running it like that.

steve

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• Posted on Jun 02, 2009

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i'm sorry to tell you this, you have to take take the hole recoil apart.either the spring is broken or the dog that holes the spring is not engaged.to fix it you have to take it apart.restring the rope,make sure the dog is catching the spring,rotate the recoil rotor to tension the spring,retie the handle and reinstall the recoil as an assembly.hope this helps,let me know if you have any questions...........

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hi wade come across this all the time m8 the spring is slipping or the pawl (little plastic part on the recoil drum) is worn open the recoil and take a look at where the spring is sitting in relation to the center shaft where the bolt goes through the rope spool either the bend in the spring slack or the spring catch in the center is not catching properly this means when the spring is under load it will slip when u try to pull the cord. you can either get a new spring or try and re bend the spring which only works if u can bend it without breaking the spring which happens more times than not. on the first pull of the recoil pull the cord till u can fell the engine giving resistance let the cord recoil and then pull this allows the shortest pull to start the engine, saving the recoil uncoiling if it is still not catching try the pawl a small white plastic part in the top of the rope spool if this wears out it can give the same problem but it should still recoil for u hope this helps

SOURCE: Pull cord on TB25CS trimmer came out all the way, won't recoil

http://www.m-and-d.com/pdfs/MTD/TB25CS-41BDT25C063PL.pdf

Probably the recoil spring is broken.

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My UT21546 has 2 springs, the regular recoil one and a what I'll call a anti kickback one. the top of the anti kickback spring kept coming unsecured and finally I just deleated it alltogther and screwed the 2 plates tightly togehter and the near new unit works better than new now.