hey youtubers welcome back to non your voice send me three the small engine dr. today I'm
going to show you to replace the pull cord in your generator so here's the generator
as you can see the pull cord is broken that often happens when people have a
hard time starting their machine and they keep pulling on it this is a Chinese made
generator and the engine is a clone of a Honda so to start with you will need
to remove the three bolts that are holding the cover on and they're eight millimeters in size
and the last one is where here so now what I'm going to do is remove the old rope just
pull it out and to remove the old rope from the handle you're going to need a nice sharp flat
screwdriver reach into here and pop this off now what I did is I matched up the old rope to
a new rope and I'm using a number five rope and I've got approximately 58 inches of this rope
what I often do is I melt the ends of the rope and I make a nice and smooth like this watch
it'll burn your fingers then it prevents the rope from fraying now grab your rope and make
a knot at the end just a simple knot like this pull on it to make sure that it's really tight
that it won't come apart you can even put the end of the rope in the vise and then pull to
make sure the knot is really tight now what you need to do is grab the end of the rope without
the knot grab the recoil assembly now you'll need to line it up with the hole over here
and now insert the rope through it now pull on the rope until the knot gets right up to
the spool now insert the rope through the hole it's going to come out at the recoil
now what you'll need is the handle just simply insert the rope at the bottom of it right up to
the top now grab the other part of the handle and insert the rope through it and now you'll
need to make another knot like you did earlier and I'll just insert the knot in the hole here
on this cover and push the rope right in there now you want to put the two parts together so
I'll just pull on the rope bring it down and now it's just going to snap right in there
like this now at this point what we need to do is tighten up the spring on the spool so
that the rope will go back in now grab the recoil in your hands and what you want to
do is turn it four turns counterclockwise and make sure you turn the spool when you do this
and count your turns over here where the Rope exits the recoil so one turn two turns three
for and I'll hold the rope make sure it's in the spool and now you can let it go back in and now
when you pull on the rope it's going to go back in the recoil nice and easy and before you install
your recoil it's a good idea to spray it with some liquid wrench just to lube all the moving
parts in there and now I'm going to show you how to install it on your generator so now you want
to line up the recoil exactly where it was before and make sure all the holes are lined up for the
bolts and once it's installed you want to grab it make sure that it turns the engine over properly
and that's it you're done it's that easy