Stuck seatbelt

[obeygravity]

The drivers seat belt has been occasionaly sticking when fully retracted, not wanting to come back out. Usually a bit of fidgeting, or just putting the van in gear and the lock would disengage letting the belt work normally. Well today it fully retracted and that was it. No amount of jimmying would do anything. So off came trim panels and out came the retractor mechanism. (the mechanism by the way had no electric contections...so no pretensioner issues) After I took off the green cover that said "DO NOT REMOVE" (if they didn't really want it removed they wouldn't have used the easily removable push pins to hold it in place) and did some poking about I think I found the issue. I guessed the pendulum stop was to blame but it was working fine. Seems as though directly under the circle that says to not remove there is a grey toothed spring loaded disk that when activated by the pendulum activates the stop. It appeared as though turning it clockwise or counter clockwise would also adjust the sensitivity of the sharp pull stop. (independant of the pendulum stop) I think the belt thought that all pulls where sharp pulls and was always activating the brake. With some tweeking a bit clockwise and counter clockwise I seem to have been able to tune the sharp pull stop. It appears to now be working fine.

I looked around here, and on MDOCUK but couldn't find an exact fit for my circumstance, so now after that preamble, I put it out there, has anyone elsle delt with this issue and/or resolved it in a similar (or dissimilar) manner? You may have noticed I used a lot of uncertain qualifiers in my despription of what I did. I realize that I have done unknown adjustments on a pretty major safety component and while I feel relatively certain it is working correctly now, I am still a bit hesitant. Thoughts?

Sorry, but I only thought to take the photo after it was back together.