I have a Simplicity 44" deck riding mower. Love it. The other day we were pressure washing mud and grime off, when this spring appeared from what I thought was inside or under the mower deck. It was clean, however, so I don't think it was underneath. I can't see anywhere that might be missing a spring. Everything is functioning properly, including the emergency seat shut off detector, parking brake and the cruise control. I removed the black housing on top of the mower deck, but nothing missing there. Total length is 7 3/4 in. and the coiled part is 2 1/4 in. I can't find any reference to it in the manual. Anyone have any ideas?
Thank you, but, forgive me, what part of the tractor is that?
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I’m thinking that is the governor return spring, follow the link that goes from the carb and ends at a L shaped bracket, there should be two holes that it hooks into near where the throttle cable ends.
And just a little tip here
If you post a photo of a spring we need some thing is it to scale the image
A match, is always good as that scales the length of the spring and the thickness of the wire.
It could be a magnified governor spring by the look of it or a return spring from the brake pedal or a return spring from the deck drive.
They all have the same basic shape.
IT is way too light to be a tension spring.
It could be a return spring but the wire is not thick enough to be a tension spring unless the spring is actually 2' long
YES
that sounds a lot more like it
Isn't the brake latching spring around the same size ?
Very hard when the OP will not provide anything to scale the spring with.
Thank you for your help. I went to the dealer where I bought the tractor and he thought it was a tension spring for the cruise control. He found a new Regent he had in stock, and, sure enough, that was it. Pretty easy to replace on mine, once I determined where it went!
