Norm, the rod I was talking about was the little governor rod that has the spring attached. I have run this mower for about 40 minutes and it mowed my yard faultlessly. However today I tried to mow the yard with it again (actually my son was doing it) and somehow the blower/flywheel key broke and that was without hitting anything. When i got this mower it had a broken key so this is the second one.
