1. let the rope pull back into the housing until their is no tension on the spring.
2. remove the nut in the center of the center white disk and then the disk itself
3. note location of arm and small spring, and remove both
4. with no tension in hidden large spring carefully lift up spool containing rope
5. keep hidden large recoil spring flat in it's containment area
6. using 24" of duct tape, wrap 1 end around tip of rope to get a tension grip, and fold duct tape over itself to make it a 20" long flat x 1/2" wide tape with no sticky sides exposed
7. wrap rope and duct tape tightly into spool
8. insert end of duct tape through exit hole in housing
9. by keeping rope and duct tape tight, carefully place disk down on large hidden spring so that the bottom open groove in the spool are directly aligned with the bent tip of the hidden spring
10. reinstall small spring and arm, and center round disk
11. reinstall keeper nut
12. pull duct tape out of exit hole until rope is exposed
13. temporarily tie knot in end of rope
14. remove tape
15. carefully undo knot and thread behind water hose and up through center pull rope handle hole
16. insert rope tip in handle and tie double half hitch knot that loops twice inside of the tightening loop. Study the stock Polaris knot that you cut off the rope, and duplicate it. It is not two separate half hitches.
17. reinstall pull rope housing