Sometimes removing and re-installing can change the setting due to amount play around the mounting screws or studs. It doesn't take to throw off especially if things are worn. Basically you do static adjustment and if you still have problem you go in and physically check the governor.
As degree of movement I have never heard that test in 10 yrs of servicing these engines. Now it might be valid if the governor push pin becomes dislodged but that would take the cross over shaft being fully ccw allowing the pin to fall off. Of the governors that I seen fail usually one of the flyweights goes awol. Now I did have one Kohler governor last year that the push pin was off but someone else had already been working on the engine a few years before me and had the mower in the bushes as having a dead engine.
As for the starter it is listed as pn 795121 Motor-Starter (4-3/8" Housing Length for Aluminum Ring Gear Only) superseding PNs 691262, 494990, 494198, 394943, 490420, 499521 and 497401. These numbers should help finding a suitable starter. I don't have that particular starter in stock here so I can't physically compare it to the more common one that fails here. I do see the specs is for 4-3/8" housing where the single cylinder starter I have here are 3-3/8" which means the 795121 would have more torque.
Actually I only seen a couple failures last year on Briggs single cylinder engines. I did replace several Kohler starters for worn out bushings.
Grass here isn't growing considering I am in for 1-3 of snow if changes over and don't comes down as freezing rain by morning. Then we going be below freezing for at least 48 hrs. Actually around 10-20 F.
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