5 HP Briggs will not idle-Runs wide open

[Steve2000]

I am sorry it took me so long to get back. Yes, your input helped. I took the block apart to inspect the oil pump and it's associated mechanism. I found it working perfectly. I put it back together but this time instead of adjusting the governor to work with full throttle I only went a little more than half of the throttle. It worked perfectly. This was a good lesson for me. I took the block apart for nothing.
Thanks guys for all your input.

 

[nhyrum]

Im glad he got you up and running. these brigs engines are pretty dumb animals. I spent a lot of my highschool years working on them in my shop class, I could tear one completely down, piston and valves out and have it back together and running in an hour. I even built a few from the spare parts bin, and frankensteined a couple old engines that had a bad condensor, by simply putting a modern flywheel and coil on it, they hadnt changed a bit in size or mounting pattern over the 40 years or so between the engines.