M govenor

Question for tractor vet Ever since I"ve had my M Farmall the govenor seems to be lazy. Running along in fifth gear half throttle, when you go down a hill it slows way down then when it finally ketches up it surges all at once. Also when appling throttle you have to go two or three notches before it will speed up. Seems to be much worse after tractor comes up to operating temp. When first started works pretty good. Seem like something is hanging up. I've had it apart twice, put new pins in weights can't find anything wrong. Any suggestions appreciated. By the way I read your post on govenor adjusting. Good piece I adjusted it the way you said. Bernie Steffen

OK well does the spring fit in it's hole nice and snug or is it sloppy and sorta flops around . ANd have you read my post to Gordo onhow to scync the gov to the carb. also i'll bet that ALL the linkage has lots of ware from the lever on down to the gov. Ya got to remember that that old tractor has had extensive field testing and was used tomuch when new. SOOOOooo to get it to work like new ya got to make everything like new. A little ware here and there amounts to alot in the overall picture .

Tractor Vet Have read your post on how to sync the gov to the carb. Very informing. Have adjusted the govenor to this method. As to the spring having slop in the holes in the ends. Did these holes have bushings from the Factory? The holes don"t seem to be worn but there is quite a bit of play in them. Oh well maybe I'm expecting too much. Gov works good at full throttle so I guess I shoukd be satisfied with that. Its just on tractor rides its usually about half throttle and thats where it acts up. Anyway thanks for the info Bernie Steffen

Would you send it again please i didn't see it. thanks don

YEs there were hardened bushing in the holes and most have fallen out over the years . SOOOOoooo what i have been doing is making up Bronze bushing and pressing them in with a .003 interferance fit . Both side of each bushing must be champhered and have just enough clearance so you have no spring bind. One of my old customers and good friend is a clock maker and has all the neat small tooling in his basement to make them up . This all stared one day when he was behind on field work and asked if i could help him work ground , he farms about 165 acres with a S/MTA a WD 45 Allis and a 8 N ford all bought new on this farm . Now a week before i had may S/MTA over helping him plow as i was trying o clean up several sets of model 60 plows that i picked up at a sale and wanted to get them looking good before i put them up for sale . Well i was disking with his S/MTA pulling a 10 foot disc and it was real slugish . Not much gov. action . Well forgive me but things must work wright with me and i stopped and had to open up the gov.and found what was wrong and tore into it and stopped all operations , Told Billy that this was the problem and we went down into his basement and in less then a hour had everything made and installed did the carb to gov. scyn opened up the fuel a turn and half checked the timing and set it and put the tractor back in the field and instead of struging up and down the humps and bump in third it was now doing it in forth . Made a new tractor out of it . When he put it on the grinder mixer she did not die while grinding ear corn . He told me that it had never ran that good in all the years that he has had it.