[Farmall] F- 20

[Glenn Karch]

Kevin,

What I would do is to look for the governor field change kit off of a 
junker.  It replaces the top of the governor and other parts and makes it 
into a variable speed governor operated by a separate lever.

Glenn Karch
Hercules Historian
Haubstadt, Indiana, USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <farmall36 at vci.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] F- 20


>    Ok  today it wants to run faster than I like.  No adjusting idle sqrew
> just run at high idle.
> Probably no more than it ought to run wide open, but more than I felt ok
> with.  So I shut the gas off and let it run out.
> I dont want to run it real fast just be able to grab the throttle when
> needed.
> Really hot out here today over 100 in the shade, good wind out of the 
> south.
> Kind of day make me glad there wasnt 800 bales on the ground :-)
> Kevin
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy glines" <pioneersop96 at yahoo.com>
> To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 7:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Farmall] F- 20
>
>
>> The tricky part with your question is that there is
>> more than one style of throttle linkage for an F-20.
>> Let's star out by figuring out which one you have (or
>> don't have).  Does your tractor have two levers next
>> to the steering wheel?  One lever will be hooked to
>> the magneto and the other is the throttle?  With this
>> type the throttle lever is usually hooked to the
>> gov-to-carb linkage near the left front of the
>> tractor.  A picture is worth a thousand words if you
>> have a place to post one.
>>
>> --- farmall36 at vci.net wrote:
>>
>>>     No knob, this one has a spring from throttle
>>> link to a lever that is L
>>> shaped above the flyweights that is on a pivot with
>>> throttle rod running
>>> accross in front of engine to another rod running to
>>> carb all enclosed in
>>> tubes.
>>> Everything seems to be hooked up I think it mabe
>>> stuck.
>>> Will try it in the morning.
>>> This tractor is not even considered rare I think
>>> they made about a million
>>> of them. Go to IH dealer ask a question about it and
>>> get a strange look and
>>> quick i dont know.
>>> Kevin
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <farmallgray at aol.com>
>>> To: <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 8:55 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Farmall] F- 20
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> > You may have one wih the single speed governor.
>>> They have a knob on the
>>> > back of the governor housing that you turn
>>> clockwise for more RPMS. The
>>> > throttle lever only closes the butterfly in the
>>> carb.
>>> >
>>> > You get no governor action when you throttle it
>>> down with the lever.
>>> >
>>> > Todd
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
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>>
>> Andy Glines
>> Evansville, IN
>>
>>
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