Governor

41 JD A is there a lag time on the Governor when you throttle up on a deadhead run or does it have to have the load of a implement for the Governor to do its job. Seem my Gov takes its time to react like 20 or 30 sec.

To make sure I understand you correctly, you mean if you "throttle up" from say a 1/4 speed setting to full speed by pushing the speed control all the way forward it slowly opens the throttle & has a serious time lag before reaching full speed even with no load?

NO that is definitely not at all normal!

If you're standing on the ground on the tractor's left side and you watch the throttle connection on the carburetor as it is sitting there idling, if you jerk the speed control fully forward, the linkage should almost instantly go from the idle position to fully open and in maybe a half dozen putts he should be to full speed. The governor should shut the throttle back down (with the engine at full speed) to prevent over speeding.

You have either some serious binding, serious maladjustment of the linkages, a broken/cracked governor spring or some weight or shaft problem inside.

I'd check the spring and for linkage adjustment/binding first. With it NOT running and the speed control only forward enough to make the throttle on the carburetor be half open (not at idle not against the wide open stop either), is there a gap between the leaf spring and the point of the governor lever arm? They should be touching.

With the lever set at full speed engine NOT running, if you remove the rod from the top of the carburetor and hold the carb butterfly against the stop in the wide open position, the rod should be too short to drop into the hole by half the diameter of the hole. You should have to fight the spring to pull the rod forward 1/2 its diameter to drop it into the hole.

Once set in that manner (again not running) if you remove the rod between the lever & the governor arm, motion of the governor lever and the forward linkage should essentially be effortless from carb stop to carb stop. I've seen rebuild kit shaft seals cause binding that makes governors real sluggish. They can grab & hold the shaft so tightly the governor can't easily open the throttle to react to application of a load.

Hope that gets ya started.

Had a problem with my 45 AR having a sluggish governor. Turned out the governor wasn't getting any oil. The hole behind the oil pressure fitting was plugged.

Yes on lag time you got it right. I will look for the issues you presented. Thanks

Ok I will check that first, Thanks