thank you and my wife thanks you, you saved me from throwing this across the garage and then stomping until I broke an ankle and needed to go to the ER.

Hey BugeyedReplyman your video help me fix my father's weed-wacker! Thanks a bunch and we really appreciate your tutorial. Please disregard the negative comments because you did not have to take the time out to document and share your experience. Your the greatest!

Great video! I was about ready to get a new trimmer, but after watching your video, had mine back together and running in less than 30 minutes. Thank you for posting.

I watched this video, among a few others, to be sure I was winding the recoil spring and pull-rope in the correct direction. Thank you. Now to be critical. You put a lot of emphasis on reconnecting the two wires to the kill switch, even suggesting using a multimeter to determine polarity. It does not matter, as the kill button just shorts out the ignition of the trimmer, so the wires can go on either pole, and the kill-function will still work just fine. Also, I noted a lot of rust in the recoil spring housing and around the dogs on the end of the shaft, but I notice NO effort on your part to lubricate any of the moving parts. A little WD-40 will help this trimmer last longer, and keeping it inside out of the rain, will stop further rusting. Where I want the lubrication quality to last longer, I mix 1/3 mineral oil to 2/3 WD-40 in my spray bottle.

After a day and a half of winding and rewinding the recoil spring, I tried a little modification of the installation after the spring was wound in the little metal dish. After many cuts on my thumbs, blisters on my fingers from getting them caught between (I'll call it a recoil pulley), and a screw post and having to exhaust the place of all the blue air from all the cursing, I had to try something else. Instead of winding the spring tight with the recoil pulley I put the spring and metal dish in place with the hook in it's place, put the recoil pulley on, watching that the opening aligned with the proper place on the spring, slipped the pull rope in one of the little rounded notches in the upper part of the recoil pulley and turned it until it loaded the spring. Then I put the screws and tabs on that hold the pulley in place and tried pulling the rope. Works like a dream. Mine is a 2006 model FeatherLite XT260. Start to finish on this last try took less than 15 minutes. I got to be an expert at winding the spring into the metal dish. LOL Take care and thank you for this awesome video. Taught me another lesson on looking outside the box....or in this case, the weed eater housing.

I've got to hand it to you. About the most abrasive thing you said was, oh crap! I've been trying for weeks to recoil the spring on a John deer model which only has a slim metal coil to hold the spring in place after being wound. There's been a blue cloud of profanities over my house for weeks. I'm ready to chuck it all in the dumpster. My hands will never play the violin again. may the saints preserve us. Tnx for the video.

😂😂 I'm trying to imagine how many times you curse that thing out

Tried a couple of methods (nails, screws, tie wraps, electric drills, etc.) trying to get the spring rewound on my chainsaw. Then stumbled onto your video. Duh! Easy, simple, fast. Only thing I did different was put on some gloves .... in case it exploded again. 😁 Thanks for the help!!!

You are a true backyard professional sir, one that knows how to cuss and call things a peice of shit with every move and breath you make. Not like the guys in the lawnmower shops that cuss, call it a piece of shit and throw it at a coworker and sometimes at the toolbox and wall or door. I have vidoes of such behavior at peoples's request. I have an older Yard Mchine trimmer from 2010. If the rope breaks you have to buy a new recoil assembly. I tried putting a new rope on and it was useless I'm buying the new recoil assembly.

That tensioner part help me out big time. I have a little weed eater blower and it's not exactly like that the tensioner is reversed face down. But just help me out a lot thanks.

I've watched 5 or 6 videos with all kinds of solutions from rigs to drill + scew but yours is the fastest and simplest solution. My outer plasic peg that held the spring in place broke off on my homelite chainsaw. I replaced it with a flat head nail super glued. Thanks bro😄 As someone mentioned the solid metal side of the spring housing faces UP not Down. Makes it rewind easier.

Beautiful bird singing in the background! Like a bird sanctuary.

You're the best. I couldn't get it to become tense enough to recoil.... but I see what you did: you just kept spinning it until it was tighter. I wasn't doing that. thanks

Who gives a shit if he stuttered. He helped me from getting a 75.00 bill from my repair shop. Thank you Mr. Bug Eyed..........

this is the only I watched on how to do this, Thank you .. but I put mine together with out winding,I put the coil in and put everything together, here's the trick, you see the 2 notches on the wheel you slip the cord on either one and you can wind it up (I did 8 turns) , the notch has enough clearance to turn.. and your done..

I am having 1 hell of a time getting mine wound up I'll try the way you did.thank you

The notches are also used to keep the tension on the hook as you reload the coil back in. Use a small Allen key in the slot to hold the hook while dropping the coil in place.

Thanks for this video. I have a weed eater blower and needed to fix the pull start. Spring was all over and your vid helped.

It does not matter which way you hook up the kill switch. All it does is short the magneto, and kills the spark to the spark plug. The switch is just a means of shorting thoose two wires. Either way you hook it up, it will work

Excellent material

Thanks for showing the dumb parts. They aren't so dumb, as in pulling and re-installing the shaft.

Hey, thanks for the video! I have done this before but this time I tried to put the spring back in 4 different times and eventually threw the whole trimmer in the trash! Haaaa! It had a good life! I ended up purchasing an electric. No more pull starts for me! Haaahaaa!

you are good with your hands!

Thanks man, video helped a lot.

You put the spring on wrong . The metal disk face slides across the white string pulley . The exposed spring should face the green plastic housing . It will slide and spin better.

oh man I fought with one of these this afternoon for 2 hours trying to get the MOFO spring recoiled up. I missed the tensioning piece...so I have to take it apart once more... argh.

Great video! thanx !

did he replace the 2 metal tabs that hold the pulley to the green housing?

Appreciate this BER Man, my broken WeedEater had a lot in common with yours and this video helped me get it back together after I broke the pull starter.

Your recoil plate is wrong, it is supposed to encapsulate the spring like you have it but the plate goes against the pully and the spring side goes into the housing. Also you don't coil tension on the starter until it is assembled. That is why there is a notch in the pully for the string to bypass a wrap while you wind the string.

The placement of the two wires on the switch do not matter. The switch just connects them to each other to complete the circuit. That's also why they used the same color wires (but that's not always the case).

No no,no you put the metal recoil plate in backwards. And you forgot the 2 screws and tabs that hold it in .

Great big help. More than you know. Thank you 👍

You put the square nut on the wrong side. That said, are you sure the recoil spring goes with the solid part of the plate facing away from the rope? I ask because, when I pulled mine apart, the solid part of the disk/recoil spring was facing the rope. I am on my second or third season with this model, and the rope never did recoil properly. So I am in the middle of trying to fix it.

Thank-you for posting this video. I found it very helpful.

Thank you this really helped me

recoil plate, what is the right direction?

Very useful video...thanks man

Thank you so much for your tip

Just saved me a few hundred bucks my dude 😁

lube - water resistant & stays long after installed. I used PB blaster, but others work [wd? not so much] (grease? bad idea) the dogs need a little lube as well to help prevent rust and help movement . the springs [11:20?] need a little help :)

The wires that were going to the on off switch are the same ground wire. when the switch is on it breaks the ground to the coil. When the switch is in the off position it makes the ground connection and grounds out the engine. They are both the same wire with a switch to open or close the connection. Good video though.

ya it's help I thought it would show me an easy way but nope well I'm doing it right recoiling suxs

Good stuff! Thanks

Good job man

Thanks! Great help!

Does this go for any weed eater? What about the Stihl fs 250

Thank you so much.

10:09 I see what you did there!

Thank u thank u thank u...🙌🙌

Thanks. You saved me $53

thanks man :)

Thanks so much!

I cant get my cover to come off

just a fyi spring holder is upside down just to let you know.

what if u put it in the wrong hole,,as applied to life,,will it give u a sh@##!ty disposition???t

Thanks man your vid help me out. i was just about ready to flip my shit

Im gonna buy a new one ok?

my hands are to big couldn't do this shit is there a tool I could use?

Lol, I hope no one actually tries to do it the same way you do it. You put that spring together wrong. The metal piece the spring it wound up in go again the piece that has the rope wound around it.

Just threw my Ryobi across the shop. I’d rather spend $100 then deal with this fucking bitch spring. FUCK.

Thanks to this vid I now make a few extra bucks each week because of rich people selling me their busted gardening equipment for pennies on the dollar which I fix and sell for cheap to families with lower income ahah the joys of capitalism

you sound like shaggy from scooby doo

My thumbs hurt ssoooooo bbbaaadddd

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buy a new one

I have no understanding why people enjoy working on motors or cars or all that.

lol, all wrong

st-stutter much?

I have no understanding why people enjoy working on motors or cars or all that.

I have no understanding why people enjoy working on motors or cars or all that.