A warning and a correction (correction makes changing oil easier).
Warning.....When tipping mower over to service blade never tip it over with the carburetor down. If you do and it is on its side for a while oil will drip onto the air filter an ruin it. Always tip a mower over with the carburetor up.
Correction....Make it easier on yourself. No need to remove the drain plug under the mower to drain out old oil. Modern mowers (for over 20 years) are designed to drain oil without removing the drain plug. The oil fill tube acts as a spout when mower is on its side. Just tip the mower all the way over on the side of the oil fill tube and all oil drains out without removing the plug.
Also, advise you not to use fuel with ethanol in mowers. Ethanol makes fuel lines brittle and damages jets and diaphragms in the carburetor. Find a station with non ethanol fuel to fill up the gas can you use to fill the mower with.
“No need to remove the drain plug under the mower to drain out old oil. Modern mowers (for over 20 years) are designed to drain oil without removing the drain plug.”
If you say so. Mine is less than twenty years old and has a drain plug.
“Also, advise you not to use fuel with ethanol in mowers. Ethanol makes fuel lines brittle and damages jets and diaphragms in the carburetor.”
I believe you’ve confused ethanol with methanol or wood alcohol. It will eat rubber gaskets and other stuff, stuff like Brawndo that your mower craves, and it will make you blind. So I drink it only on days ending with a `y’.
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“Warning ... “ Good advice. I do.
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How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our fuel supply without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.