marrt
Platinum Member
Has anyone tried different governor settings? Sunday, when mowing, I decided to move the governor spring toward the air cleaner to experiment with some of the “more sensitive” governor settings. Power Trac’s ship with the governor spring in the “least sensitive” setting. While this ensures maximum RPMs from the engine at high idle, there’s little additional power overhead available for hills etc…. By moving the spring to one of the “more sensitive” positions closer to the air cleaner, I noticed that the high speed idle dropping some (I’m guessing 200 to 300 RPMs based on the Kohler service manual) but there seemed to be more power available when attacking hills with my mower. Almost like having a cruise control. Also, overall gas consumption seemed to fall significantly.