Hi Wayne, take a look at the screw (the brass one with the large head) that is in the center of the recoil gear. Is it sticking up, stopping the mechanism from recoiling or going forward?

If I remember right, I took the two small black screws out of the recoil unit first. They are the ones holding the recoil unit to the bracket.

Also, before you install the new recoil unit, remove that big brass screw and put some loc- tite on the threads. That large screw backed out on mine and was causing some of my problems.

I'm going to go and look at mine again and see if it triggers a thought.

Never mind paragraph two, I see now you can't get to the two small screws. You're just going to have to find a way to get that bracket off. I used a 90 degree phillips screw driver to break them loose and then a long thin phillips.