I don't know what piece you are referring to as being bent 90 degrees in the last picture. Like Joe, I believe the governor can't work the way it is currently set up. If you look at the bell crank the governor spring attaches to, the spring's attachment point is directly above the crank's pivot, so when you move the speed control, the end of the spring does not move. This can't work - the whole purpose of that bell crank is to stretch the spring when you move the speed control toward higher speed. The rest of the governor mechanism, which you can't see, pulls the throttle the other way, toward closed, when the engine goes faster. Most likely the part of the bell crank that the spring attaches to, is badly bent. There seems to be a 45 degree kink in it halfway between the spring attachment point, and where it bends back into the flat plane of the body of the bell crank, where the pivot is.

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I suspect that 45 degree kink should be much less, possibly zero degrees.

There may be something else wrong as well, though. If you partly straighten that kink, the spring will stretch as intended when you advance the speed control, but I do not see why it is overspeeding at present, with the spring permanently relaxed. If the rest of the governor mechanism is pushing the throttle closed as intended, the way it is right now should result in it just idling all the time, so I'm missing something - maybe a stuck link somewhere.