Be careful with the recoil pull start mechanism there is a big coil spring
in there that can jump out and unwind and hurt you. Take the tiller to a
shop to fix it or find the engine type and look for the model and serial on
the engine.
"jhultman" wrote in message
...
Ah, thank you.

BTW. I found this last night surfing and trying different
search verbage... trim back the (TILLER_MANUALS.html) for the root
page. Like it says, Keep those old machines going!!!

http://www.geocities.com/pastbolens/TILLER_MANUALS.html

I want an old tractor now. No space but my father in-law can use
it and hold it for me...

Thanks again,

Jeff


FarmerDill wrote:

B&S engines are not tiller specific. Briggs dealers, repair shops are
everywhere. Your described problem is the recoil starter, This uses a
flat coil
spring to rewind the starter cord. sometimes there is too much slack in
the
spring, common when the starter cord is replaced. Putting more tension
on the
spring before attaching the cord will solve that problem, Sometimes the
ball
and slot mechanism ( pawl) will become too dirty for the balls to drop
back
into their running slots. A couple of shots of WD 40 will usually cure
that.