And Robinson thus wrote:
> 
> Hi all, just a quick question.  I'm working on getting my '66 Westy ready
> for the road and I was just wondering if anyone out there still has a
> governor on their carb.  I mean, it was put there for a reason, right?  At
> what RPM is it supposed to intervene?  If I decide to take it off, it
> looks like I just need to take the whole spacer-like thing out from between
> the carb and the intake manifold and then get shorter studs for the carb.

I still have one.  It works on the priciple of kicking in at a certain CFM,
not RPM.  I say leave it on there - your carb prolly won't clear the generator,
and those cheap aluminum spacer look like crap.  If ya want, set it real high
or something, but leave it on.

Thom
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