I know everyone swears by the standard sequence for adjusting the governor rope tension, but that's exactly what cost me 6 hours on a Montgomery job.

Followed the book and kept getting false trips, but finally got it by adjusting the tension with the car at the top floor, not the pit. Anyone else run into this on older traction units?

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3 Comments

shane_clark1mo ago

Wait, you adjusted it with the car at the top? That's wild. Did the manual for that Montgomery model actually specify to do it from the pit, or was that just the general rule of thumb everyone uses? I've heard of procedures being off for specific older units.

michael_green441mo ago

Check the actual manual, because shop habits get passed down like bad rumors. I've seen guys waste half a day on a "standard" procedure that was wrong for the specific model. Sometimes the book is the only thing that remembers the right way.

logan5251mo ago

Honestly, this happens with everything, not just old car manuals. People pass down a "best way" to do something and it just becomes the rule, even when the original reason is gone. I see it all the time with software at work, where everyone avoids a certain menu because of a bug from like 2012 that got fixed years ago. The manual might say one clear thing, but the shop habit takes over and nobody checks. Makes you wonder what else we're all doing the hard way for no real reason.