Honda EU2000/2200 pull cord

[sailorboy1]

Anyone who has an EU2000/2200 knows replacing the regular to break pull cord is a PITA.

The problem is the cord chafes when it goes in to the recoil housing while the generator runs. You think someone would have come up with a bushing etc. insert for that spot to stop this.

Anyone know of a kit or has done it themself?

[Shrew]

I don't know if a bushing kit. I had to replace mine a few years ago. What a massive PITA. You basically disassemble the majority of the generator to get to that spot where the spool sits between the engine and the electrical side.

When I did mine, a lot of the fasteners were corroded and seized and I ended up breaking plastic parts and having to replace a lot of the frame.

[sailorboy1]

I have replaced my many times and you get pretty fast. Yes the parts corrode and never seize is your friend.

But just seems there should be a way to fix the problem of the chafe.

[Jim Cate]

You could replace the cord with bare dyneema braid of the same diameter. The Dyneema is much more chafe resistant than dacron or nylon and for the same diameter, far stronger... so that even when worn partly through it is less likely to break.

Jim

[sailorboy1]

Maybe. But I think the answer is some type of rubber bushing. Unusual in that normally when I think "someone should do ...." and look into it it turns out someone already has done it.

I did come across a UTube where someone put shrink tubing on the rope.