There's a good chance the rewind spring has broken, or has slipped out of it's retaining notch. It may need to be replaced as well. It can be very trying to reassemble.
Rick
November 2005
You will need to pull the cover off and rewind the return spring and then install pull rope and let the spring pull it back into the housing ..........cAN BE TRICKY
bg
November 2005
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