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Location: Marlboro MA
Joined: Dec 8, 2007
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Briggs recoil clutch removal
Original Message   Mar 13, 2012 8:17 pm
   Picked up a nice Tory-Bilt Pony with a bum engine, broken rod.   I have a 7 hp Tecumseh (black paint) that would bolt on and work but the Briggs is in such nice condition with great paint I'd like to salvage it.   I'm a bit puzzled by the recoil clutch in the bottom photo.   How do those come off.  There's not enough room to wedge a screwdriver at the flywheel/clutch joint and I've already broken a small section of the clutch housing in back. 

   I wedged a few pickel forks in back of the flywheel and tapped them in a bit but the flywheel is not moving.  There's no rust on this thing and all the bolts and drive pulleys have come of easily.  I'm not sure if I should be using the methods or force I'd usually use with a Tecumseh.   Does the clutch just bang out from behind before trying to remove the flywheel?  The parts view seems to show it just fit on the shaft with no key and there's no allen screw on it.  Anyone pulled a flywheel on one like this before? 

   Will these take a megafire ok?

   Any trick to getting the $#%* back into the clutch housing, use grease to hold them in?? 

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friiy


Location: Las Vegas, The Desert
Joined: Apr 12, 2008
Points: 600

Re: Briggs recoil clutch removal
Reply #7   Mar 15, 2012 11:29 am
Looks like overspeed or maybe they jammed the tines and sheared the crank...

If the ring gap looks good I wouldn't even change them (rings), unless you see that it's burning oil..  

CHeck the trottle shaft, It may be gummed up / Stuck in the full throttle position.. (causing the Break).. Tillers on the average only run twice a yearfall and spring..

When you go to put the clutch back together, take some scotchbright (fine grit, blue or gray) and clean off the crank-tit that rides in the pawl assy.  Get off any brown baked or gummy residue on it make sure the unit is clean and smooth (lube with a light White grease) or the unit may start to hang up and destroy your rewind assy..

Good find-- nice unit...

Friiy

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