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Yes, there is. If I could describe it in words I would be another Shakespeare. Essentially, you have to hook the starter Bendix - the little gear on the end of the starter shaft - over and behind the ring gear - the teeth on the flywheel. The gear should be as far to the end of the shaft as it can be. If it is not, you need to get it there - it's on a fast helix and the springs you see should push it out, but not always. It's hard to do since there's no good way to grab hold of the starter shaft. One trick suggested here in the past is to run the gear against a wire brush in a bench grinder, and drive it out that way. Then it's wiggle and jiggle and curse to get it to pop over the teeth on the flywheel. It may help if you can get a helper to rock the tractor back and forth, in gear, to make the flywheel teeth move. If it just plain-and-simple won't go, the accepted fix is to grind about 1/16" of material out of the top of the mounting hole in the flywheel cover, using a die-grinder or similar. Stuff a towel in the hole to prevent the crud from falling into the housing. Try the starter as you go, and remove only enough to make it pop over the flyhweel teeth and into place. Make sure that you do not grind away more than about a 90° segment, since the round hole pilots the starter in place. HTH llater, llamas
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