B govenor

Hi; Hoping someone can help me out. I was changing the front crank seal on my B when I noticed a crack around the bushing on the governor housing which goes about 1" beyond the bushing in two directions. When I took the housing off, there were two gaskets between it and the front cover. I noticed that the weights were hitting the rivet that holds the fork onto the output shaft. I installed new pins which tightened everything up to no play. Bought a used housing that's in nice cond. I put the guts into the new housing and if I hold the output shaft in the idle position, all is well but if I move it to about the wide open position, the weights hit the fork where it is welded to the shaft like the old one did. The bearing is in good cond. with two very tiny divots where the gov. weights push against it. The fork is in very good cond. and the weights don't show hardly any wear where they touch the bearing. I installed the gov. without a gasket to check things out and I noticed that I can move the gov. in and out 1/8". I have worked on many governors but not quite like this one. Can anyone tell me what is happening and how to correct it? Thanks

You might be missing a spacer.

According to the parts book everything is there. Thanks

Are you saying it will hit when running with every thing hook up and adjusted or are you seeing it when you operate it without all the linkage hooked up and adjusted???

Have not had it running with the new housing yet. I installed it without the gasket and marked the shaft and housing positions when at idle and wide open took it back off and when I put it in the wide open position as marked, the weights will just tick the fork. If I go beyond the wide open point, they make a solid hit on the fork but, that I don't worry about because when installed, the arm can't move that far so the weights won't hit that hard. I'm just worried about the slight tick at full throttle position. Also, when I install it to run, I will install with the gasket which will actually make the arm move just a hair more to full throttle which will bring the weights just a hair closer to the fork. I'm wondering if I could put a hardened thin washer between the fork and the bearing. That would keep the weights a little farther away from the fork. Thanks

Your governor gear hasn't moved forward causing it to disengage with the mag coupling, has it?? Consider this....it was running before. If there was any serious interference inside the governor, something would have blown up by now. The fact that it had two gaskets installed is a little concerning. Put it back together(completely....carb and carb linkage....everything) with one gasket and crank it over by hand first.

I would have to see what you are talking about to understand what you are talking about. I have done a bunch of these engines and have never run into a problem where the weights hit the fork. I have two of these engines apart in the shed and will look at what problem you think you are seeing. My guess is that you do not actually have a problem. Because of my health problems I have not been working on these two for over a year. I will try to see if I can duplicate what you are seeing later this afternoon if I can get out there. You have my curiosity up in any case.

Could this be the problem

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Thanks for your help