Setting up a governor

[Estam]

Thanks everyone, purchased a new spring from local small engine repair which sells Honda and others.
Removed the old and compared the two and using a small weight and measuring the stretch seems to be identical.

With new spring all runs but with the same problem.

StarTechs #5 post mentioned a static governor set up so Googled and thanks to a 1 min YouTube tried it and it worked.

Started on the first pull and ran well and slowly reduced the choke then set up the governor adjustment to 60Hz ish
and started to apply different loads up to 2500 watts and all worked within limits.

Thanks for everyone's help.

Best regards,

Dave

 

[Estam]

The symptom was when running the revs just kept increasing and decreasing all the time. The carb was replaced and all new gas.

StarTechs #5 post mentioned a static governor set up so Googled and thanks to a 1 min YouTube tried it and it worked.

The adjustment was minimal but loosening the bolt on the arm to just free up the movement from the arm to the shaft, with a pair of pliers hold the shaft over till it stops and then bring the arm over till there is tension on the carb holding the butterfly in the closed position then tighten the bolt on the arm.

Hope this helps...

 

[GearHead36]

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