Today, I replaced the head gasket on the RF along with the regular stuff(filing head, cleaning up head gasket area, cylinder, block, head, piston, and valves, new spark plug and air filter). I fired her up, and she ran perfect with no surging for 7-10 seconds. Then I saw the governor start to move visciously back and forth, the engine increasingly surged more and more. I choked it a little bit, and then she died. As of now, she's charging up since she's been sitting for a little bit. Is this normal, do I have to adjust the governor, or did I just completely mess up?
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Today, I replaced the head gasket on the RF along with the regular stuff(filing head, cleaning up head gasket area, cylinder, block, head, piston, and valves, new spark plug and air filter). I fired her up, and she ran perfect with no surging for 7-10 seconds. Then I saw the governor start to move visciously back and forth, the engine increasingly surged more and more. I choked it a little bit, and then she died. As of now, she's charging up since she's been sitting for a little bit. Is this normal, do I have to adjust the governor, or did I just completely mess up?
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Alright, update. I got the tractor started, but it runs like crap at anything above 1/4 throttle. I drove it around at 1/3 throttle. Every time I took my foot off my clutch pedal, the tractor almost stalled, then the throttle picked slowly back up. It idles OK, just not as good as before.
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Huh, why did it need a headgasket? Do you think any crap got under the valves? Unless you disconneted the gov linkage it should be the same.
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Just needed one, was the original one from '67. I highly doubt anything got under the valves, while I was scraping the carbon off the piston and valve surface, I was holding the shop vac nozzle roght by the scraper. She's running slightly better than she was when I last posted, maybe the governor's just getting situated to the new compression. I didn't think it was blown as bad as it was. The whole right side of the gasket had some sort of leak. I'm surprised the head and block are okay, and that the engine even ran!
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I found the problem, now I feel stupid. It started right up again right after it stalled, but then stalled again. While I was tightening the fuel clamp back on the carburetor mounted barb, the clamp must've slipped off and clamped the fuel line closed. It was only getting a tiny tiny trickle of fuel. Fixed the clamp and fired up and ran great. The throttle still dips down reeeeeeally low after the clutch pedal has pressure taken off of it.
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They all do that. My 70' you can almost count the strokes it idles so low.
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