[lexmarks567]

My neighbor gave me his craftsman 2 stage snowblower to work on. its been sitting in his garage for 10 years. the rope starter thats on it and the replament he gave me don't work. neather catch the flywheel. Looks like the part of the pully with the teeth is to short to reach inside the cup/bowl thats mounted on the flywheel.I removed the blower housing and held the starter and pulled but it slips. Are both rope pulleys wrong and or is the cup damaged. heres some picks. Engine is a Tecumseh 7HP and the numbers are

143-646202 SER 4296R.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7629/dcp1647fg4.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/8241/dcp1648zg3.jpg

anyideas. what parts do I need.

[Soundy]

The way most of these work is, you pull the rope, and a part in the middle of that assembly "drops down" to catch the "cup" on the flywheel. This is usually triggered by centripetal force, although there may be some other mechanism that drives the hook down - springs, a cam or pawl on the pulley, or something else. Either way, that gives you somewhere to start: pull the rope briskly with the starter assembly off, and watch to see if that center unit flies away from the pulley. If not, start looking for a cause of that.