kick start catching on airbox mount

hi guys my kick start catches on the lower rubber air box mount on 390 or 79,am i missing something ore is this another husky design fault,cant move it, and kick start wont come out more ?

sounds like you have the wrong kicker lever,,,a picture would help.

nope

pretty sure its the 79 kicker

77 to 82 kickers swing way out, made by Gunner inds. as was the kill button,
however, a 75 76 kicker is pretty straight, and would rub on the frame easy.

yep

mine swigs way out and doesnt catch frame but does catch rubber airbox mount ?not a great issue but at £15 a time you dont want to be ripping many of those off

Your kicker is probably a bit bent, apply a bit of heat and adjust

nope

no its the back of the bottom of kicker just catches rubber mount rectified by modding rubber so ok now

Those kick starters which I call the dog leg ones often deform at a contact spot and end up rotating more than they should. A blob of hard weld applied in the right spot will get it back to rotating not too far. You might see if you think that is what is happening. Things can get pretty sloppy in the splines, the fit of the rotation and the stop if it wasn't doctored in the first few years. Even the bore in the magnesium case can kind of get in need of a thin bronze sleve like some of the automatics have.

Fran