recoils always tend to break at the most inappropriet times!
A friend and I were given a basket case pocket bike and we only had 1 day to work on it befor we both left for our cottages. we throw the motor in it and tried to make it run first. We get everything in good and start pulling, nothing for the longest time, keep pulling, get it to fire, pull some more, fires up and runs for 10 seconds with no pipe and shuts off, go to pull it again and the recoil comes out and doesnt go back in! what a POS! Hit it with a hammer and nothing happened so we said forget it and left it until we got back and finally got to ride that POS today! it was awsome! most fun i've had in a while......besides my new dirtbike!
good luck with that odyssey, should be fun when your done with it, for good!
2002 Honda CR250R
1986 Honda XR100R
2002 Honda CR125R(SOLD)