You must have spun some marbles in a dish as a kid right? Your hand held the dish in place and the marbles climbed up the wall of the dish. Well now as the balls in the governor spin the dish is what moves. The balls travel in a fixed plane and the dish presses against a fork that rotates a lever that acts against the tension of the spring connecting from the throttle lever to the governor lever. I adjusted the linkage on my "new" 8N today. I could see that the nuts weren't locked against the ball joints so I knew someone had messed with it. First I shortened the throttle rod length so there was no slack in the spring at idle. Then I pinned the throttle lever and I could see the engine rpm were too high on the proofmeter (too high to my ear too). There wasn't enough adjustment in the 1" hex bolt that was in the lever's stop so I replaced it with a 1.5" bolt. Now I was able to drop the max rpm down to 2200. There's a lot of play in the throttle plate shaft of the carb so I haven't been able to get the idle down to much below 550-600. After I do a carb rebuild I'll put a photo tach on the engine and check the max rpm again. Take yours for a ride in 3rd at a lower rpm and stand on the brakes a bit. You should be able to see the governor react under load.
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