So my carburetor came in the mail and the mower was up and running again, thanks to all who helped me on that a couple of weeks ago. Last week I went to mow the lawn. Pulled the starter and the rope snapped. Kill me now. So I got a new rope, installed it, learned the hard way that there's a spring in there, spent forever putting it back and getting it hooked in properly. Tensioned the starter mechanism (not sure what it's called), put the new rope in, everything snapped back, groovy. Now I go to pull it and when it gets pulled all the way out, it won't recoil. Anything less and it will. When I take apart the starter mechanism there's a little part that when turned pops those two plastic wings out (to catch on the motor, I'm guessing). When I loosen that screw, the rope recoils perfectly, but then the two wing things won't pop out. I can have them pop out and no recoil, or recoil and the wings not popping out, but not both. I'm at my wit's end with this machine, but I know I'm so close to getting it working again. Does anyone have any advice aside from leave machines alone? :)

2002 Castelgarden EL63 with a B&S 6.5hp engine - running fine then blade disengaged (single blade with 1 drive belt) to the engage blade you pull a lever which is attached via a cable to a unit between blade and engine output spindle which appears it compresses a plate to engage the blade). adjusted the cable to its shortest setting - no chnage drive belt is very worn but still drives the mower with no problem - on the 'drive/clutch' unit there is a thin disc approx 1mm thick between 2 parts of the unit which moves around... will get a new belt hoping it's that simple but wondering what the thin 'disc' / 'washer' is????