I just checked out my governor gear due to hard shifting so I thought I would share the experience. The gov. is on the driver side of the trans just forward of the prop shaft/transfer case connection. It's covered with a press fit cap that looks like a center cap from a Torque Thrust type wheel.
You can get the gov. out without removing or dropping the trans but I had to take off the propshaft. Disconnect the front of the prop shaft then remove the top 2 bolts at the rear of the prop. Turn prop 180 degrees and remove the other 2 bolts. I used a long, thin flat head screwdriver and a brass hammer to pry out the gov. cap a bit then switched to a long, thick screwdriver to finish the job. The cap is a press fit but mine was RTV'd as well. Have a bucket on hand for the niagra falls of tranny fluid that will flow out, a large fluid tray will work even better becasue the fluid will spread out along the trans. x-member.
The gov. slips right out. press/tap out the small pin that holds the gear on and take the gear off. Now, there is a barbell/valve lengthwise inside the gov. shaft. Hold the gov. by the weights with the gear side down, the valve should be in the gov. shaft. Release/ relax your grip on the weights and the barbell/valve should drop out where the gear was. If not, just insert a small screwdriver between the weights and lightly pry the top of the barbell/valve down towards where the gear was mounted. It should now come out.
There is a small hole in the bottom/gear side of the barbell/valve. There is another very small hole at a 90 degree angle to the shaft about a centimeter up the barbell/valve. Spray some carb cleaner in the end hole and it should spray out the side hole, if not keep trying until it does. Now, scotchbrite the barbell/valve, spray with more carb cleaner, and reinstall into the gov. shaft. Make sure the barbell/valve slides freely in and out of the shaft when actuating the weights.
Reinstall gear and pin, reinstall gov. into trans. When putting the gov. cover back on push the top side of the cover all the way in and tap the bottom of the cover to seat. If you can get the cover to go on like that you won't have to pull the transfer case brace. Reinstall the prop shaft. Hopefully this helps someone else out, in depth tech seems severely lacking on this site along with dead links like a mutha. Good luck,
Larry
You can get the gov. out without removing or dropping the trans but I had to take off the propshaft. Disconnect the front of the prop shaft then remove the top 2 bolts at the rear of the prop. Turn prop 180 degrees and remove the other 2 bolts. I used a long, thin flat head screwdriver and a brass hammer to pry out the gov. cap a bit then switched to a long, thick screwdriver to finish the job. The cap is a press fit but mine was RTV'd as well. Have a bucket on hand for the niagra falls of tranny fluid that will flow out, a large fluid tray will work even better becasue the fluid will spread out along the trans. x-member.
The gov. slips right out. press/tap out the small pin that holds the gear on and take the gear off. Now, there is a barbell/valve lengthwise inside the gov. shaft. Hold the gov. by the weights with the gear side down, the valve should be in the gov. shaft. Release/ relax your grip on the weights and the barbell/valve should drop out where the gear was. If not, just insert a small screwdriver between the weights and lightly pry the top of the barbell/valve down towards where the gear was mounted. It should now come out.
There is a small hole in the bottom/gear side of the barbell/valve. There is another very small hole at a 90 degree angle to the shaft about a centimeter up the barbell/valve. Spray some carb cleaner in the end hole and it should spray out the side hole, if not keep trying until it does. Now, scotchbrite the barbell/valve, spray with more carb cleaner, and reinstall into the gov. shaft. Make sure the barbell/valve slides freely in and out of the shaft when actuating the weights.
Reinstall gear and pin, reinstall gov. into trans. When putting the gov. cover back on push the top side of the cover all the way in and tap the bottom of the cover to seat. If you can get the cover to go on like that you won't have to pull the transfer case brace. Reinstall the prop shaft. Hopefully this helps someone else out, in depth tech seems severely lacking on this site along with dead links like a mutha. Good luck,
Larry
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