[Ford-ferguson] 8n governor

[Chris Britton]

No need to remove the governor.. It is working... nothing to be gained by 
removing it...  You have already identified that the carb settings are 
correct as well as gov function....... as you can make it idle correctly by 
hand.  Bending the rod is an approved adjustment technique.

No need to swap the dash to add the proof.  Keep the original one for 
originality, as you mentioned...Just add a metal flange on the lower right 
of the dash as a reciever for the 55$ proofmeter, if your governor is indeed 
the late style with a drive, and not just the late style housing.. etc.

Soundguy


>
> I "goosed" the throttle manually, the governor smoothly attempted to
> move the throttle position back to where it was.
>
> I have adjusted the idle screw, the problem is the governor/linkage
> will not let it close that far.  I can manuall close the throttle and
> it will idle much slower, the returns to the originial speed once I
> remove my hand.  Bending the rod would also fix the problem, but if the
> governor has some problems, I would rather fix it now rather than later
> (after it has failed)......
>
> I probably will remove the governor soon and check it over.  I am
> pretty sure the governor on the tractor is not original to it (has the
> output to run a proofmeter on it).  I just forgot that while it
> probably has been replaced, it has been sometime in the last 50
> years....... <grin>.
>
> On a related note, anyone have a later model dash for a 8N with
> proofmeter mount that will work on this tractor they would like to
> sell?  I would like to add one to the tractor sometime in the next year
> or so.  From looking at the parts manual it looks like it is the only
> major (dash) difference between this tractor and the  later model 8Ns.