Grumpy ole nobody
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Sorry to bother you folks again .Still having trouble getting the ole gal to ladle down to 4-500 rpm.Here's what I had done so far.(1)- took tube loose to carb and this time I had my neighbor put on my lighted magnifier glasses and he said the tang is united with the slot.(2) Took the govenor breather top off and made sure the pin that is in the arm moved freely.(3) Took side cover off govenor.Made sure that the lower screw wasn't loose...it had Aprox 3/8 of its threads showing.The upper screw had Aprox the same 3/8 threads exposed.Started tractor while neighbor wwatched govenor while I tried to move throttle lever up and down thru it's arc .I can only move lever 3/4 in movement.And as neighbor watched govenor,he said the govenor weights were swung out and as I tried lowering throttle to idle nnothing changed.(4) We took tube off carb and neighbor used a screw driver to hold the slot on throttle shaft closed while I started engine....it actually was idling at 600 rpm smoothly.So while he held pressure on throttle I adjusted throttle stop screw to idle at 450rpm.Everything good so far.He hooked up the gov shaft tang into slot readjusted frt tube so shaft not binding and I started engine up.Neighbor said as soon as it fired up the gov weights flew outward and were back to square one with engine not wanting to idle lower then 1400 rpm.So anyone have any ideas or a good working govenor that I can just switch the old one out for? Are governors available yet for this old gal.She's a 1959. model.Again any ideas or pointing me in direction to get this up and running would be appreciated...thanks