[AT] Lawn tractor

[Cecil Bearden]

On my old ONan engines there is a row of holes in the governor arm.   I 
would think you might try a hole farther away from the pivot and see if 
that  helps...

Cecil in OKla




On 4/20/2016 10:26 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> Joining this a little late but went back and read the original post. I'm
> not an expert by far and know nothing about this engine. Having said
> that, years ago we had a IH 574 gas. The previous owner could not use it
> on the silage blower because it would start surging and break the shear
> pins and plug the blower. My dad bought it at auction (it had a loader)
> and used it to feed cattle. We lived only a few hundred feet apart and
> he was an early riser. Every morning he would start feeding cattle, it
> had a straight through muffler, and it would start surging time after
> time and wake me up. I got tired of it and starting reading up on it. I
> found out that that tractor, and others, had a surge adjustment on the
> governor. I found the bolt, loosened the jam nut and turned the
> adjusting bolt three turns, tightened the jam nut and that was the end
> of the surging problem. After that we tried it on our blower a couple of
> times and it worked perfect. I'm wondering if your engine might have an
> adjustment like that. I think I read about such an adjustment on some
> Briggs engines. If I remember correctly ( a real challenge some days )
> the engine involved moving a spring to a hole or something. Before
> spending a lot of time and money on other things I think I would try and
> find a book or a knowledgeable person and find out if this engine has a
> surge adjustment. And yes this problem can show up at random. Good luck
> on fixing this.
>           Greg Hass
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