Hi, all! I'm having an issue that I'm hoping someone can help me with...
So I decided to finally mow today. 1st mowing of the year! I was about 3/4th through the entire yard where out of nowhere, the mower began to run too fast. I didn't run over anything, so I wasn't able to figure out what happened but I shut off the mower to make sure the super fast running didn't blow the engine, etc.
After I took it into the garage and took the fuel filter off to reveal the governor, I saw the smallest of the 2 governor / throttle springs unattached to anything. I re-attached the small spring but after this, the mower still ran too fast. So I took the flywheel housing off and saw what I think was a missing "tooth" from the flywheel ring. Is something that possible? Also, if a tooth is gone, would that decrease the outbound wind force enough to not be able to adjust the governor restrictor thereby leaving the throttle "stuck" to being too fast?
Any info on this would be appreciated. (I'll try to post pictures of this mower soon--not able to right now.)
So I decided to finally mow today. 1st mowing of the year! I was about 3/4th through the entire yard where out of nowhere, the mower began to run too fast. I didn't run over anything, so I wasn't able to figure out what happened but I shut off the mower to make sure the super fast running didn't blow the engine, etc.
After I took it into the garage and took the fuel filter off to reveal the governor, I saw the smallest of the 2 governor / throttle springs unattached to anything. I re-attached the small spring but after this, the mower still ran too fast. So I took the flywheel housing off and saw what I think was a missing "tooth" from the flywheel ring. Is something that possible? Also, if a tooth is gone, would that decrease the outbound wind force enough to not be able to adjust the governor restrictor thereby leaving the throttle "stuck" to being too fast?
Any info on this would be appreciated. (I'll try to post pictures of this mower soon--not able to right now.)