Engine idling too high on JD A

I didn't like the way the throttle wouldn't really open up until the engine was about to die though. I discovered that I had 1 inch of governor arm movement and one inch of throttle plate movement too. I decided to extend the governor rod way on out to the distributor where I had 2 inches of arm movement and just a little work with it a couple of months ago indicates that this is way it should have been made from the begining. Just idleing around hooking up equipment and moving same has the governor opening right up when needed but also keeps it idleing slowly when no load at all is on it. Can't wait to get her killing weeds this summer and having the throttle open fully while the engine still has some useful speed to it.