Re: Need help on the absolute most annoying pull start issue
ok so let me clarify this, after i pulled the pull cord straight out that day in 2012 i ran it to a boat show i was going to, shut it down, and then had a guy at a small shop rewind the cord since i had no idea how to do it correctly. Did that, fired it up gave it a little gas and then for some reason it died. And it wouldn't recoil. I eventually got it to run after about an hour of letting it sit. Got home, took the motor to a local marina and told them the issue i had and with it not recoiling so they replaced the recoil spring (july 2012, and i almost forgot to mention before all this I had spent $200 getting it tuned up at the same place, so obviously the engine shouldn't just die out like that after a complete tune up) In August 2012 i took it back and they told me that the reason it died was because i had the screw on the throttle setting all the way down, but I had been running it like that for about three years without any problems. And charged me $60 for the labor and new spring for the recoil.
So I took it out again in August just after having it fixed, started on the first pull and ran absolutely perfectly. So I shut it down at the dock after a half hour boat ride, like I said at about %80 of the way at full throttle, shut it down for 5 minutes went to pull it and it felt like the motor was completely seized up, thats how hard it was to pull. Pulled the recoil apart and looked at the spring and it was bent pretty bad in 3 different spots. Back to the shop.
I was really fed up with the motor after driving three hours to get to the river, spending all the money to get it fixed, and blowing my weekend I didn't touch till the next summer in late 2013. Told the guys they didn't fix it so they did it again no questions asked free of charge. They said they started it 30 times and it pulled fine, even though i told them to let it run on high throttle for a while, thats when the problem happens.
So i took it to a small lake last September knowing the thing was going to lock up i brought along my tools. I was right. after a half hour boat ride, shut it down in the middle of the lake and it locked up yet again. After I pull the recoil off and rewind it by hand it starts on the first pull and runs normally.
So to answer some of your questions:
Steve A W: The motor never back fired on me
Racerone: Its not over heating and I don't think its the lower unit. like i said it starts after i rewind the spring.
Boobie: when i pull the starter of it works fine
Joe Reeves: Yes the engine ran great before all this and it still runs like a champ mechanically, except for the pull of course.
I think i gave it in pretty good detail, let me know if you need me to clarify. Thanks guys.