Post your latest small engine oil change

[MSCH]

I use whatever is left over from car and diesel truck oil changes on my once a year maintenance of my lawn tractor, and generators.
see I keep leftover oils I don't use from previous oil changes and dump it in the one saved container. it becomes top up and oil change material for any engine in my household.
basically has zero cost.

FWIW a Fram 3614 or equivalent fits most Kohler, Briggs and Kawasaki engines so guess what kind of filter they all get.?

 

[odie]

JOHN DEERE D-130 w/ 22 H.P. Twin Cylinder engine .

IN / ON : 18 > 19 ounces PENNZOIL Platinum 5w-30 ( S.P. , GF-6A ) w/ John Deere GY20577 ( AM125424c ) .

 

[blufeb95]

The 2019 Craftsman(MTD) mower I picked up that had an early 90s or late 80s Briggs Quantum on it completely lost compression after a few uses, which was no surprise with how rough of shape it was in, but the neighbor's nephew had a 2017ish Troy-Bilt with a Honda GCV160 he used for several seasons mowing commercially that all the plastic was falling apart on and the self propel died, so he gave it to me so I could have the engine, I've had the engine sitting around for a few months and yesterday I finnally got the motivation to do the Engine swap, I'd drained whatever he'd had in the engine months ago before I removed it from the deck. So I just filled it up with 12oz of Mobil 1 15W-50 since I had some I'd put in a quart container at the house where I have this mower since I had been using mowers there that had oil consumption problems.

 

[Bighorn2500]

1996 John Deere LX188
Out: Mix of Delo 15w40 & T6 5w40, Fram TG4967
In: Rotella T6 5w40, Fram Titanium 4967

Filter had two years on it, oil just one cutting season.

 

[ZebRuaj]

2006ish Toro SR4 (20055)

Coworker picked this up for me. His neighbor tossed it to the curb. Wouldn't start and self propel was reported as no longer working. Gas was old, had water in it. Air filter also caked in dry mud.

Fresh gas + fresh supertech 5w30. Starts right up.

Cleaned it out, changed the self propel tension spring and tightened up the self propel cable. Everything works.

 

[vwthingman]

2010 John Deere X500 148.9 hours on engine, 26 hours on oil and filter
OUT: Amsoil small engine oil 10W30 and Amsoil filter.
IN: Amsoil Small engine oil 10W30 and Wix 51334 filter

 

[350Rocket]

1990 Craftsman 38" lawn tractor with newer 12.5hp Briggs and Stratton flathead. Drained unknown oil at least 4 years old and replaced with m1 0w40.

 

[Whimsey]

New Craftsman 2800 PSI Power Washer with the Briggs "Never Change the Oil" 163cc engine. After the initial 2 hours of running it hard cleaning packed gutters I changed the "never change" oil. It was silver, not just some silver steaks but solid silver coloring in a black oil. Out came the factory supplied Briggs SAE 30 oil, In went STP SAE 30 HD oil. Hopefully I'll be able to clean the gutters of the Fall leaves before winter temps hit. I'll then change the oil again. I know the initial run of these OPE engines causes a lot of metal shedding to the oil, I can't fathom leaving that in the engine for it's "life".

 

[road_rascal]

Oil change before storage on the Craftsman riding mower (actually a 2014 Husqvarna rebranded mower).

 

[NormanBuntz]

2012 Snapper LT24460, 24 HP Briggs Vanguard motor
286 work hours
OCI: 46 hours
Out: Miles Lubricants synthetic 5w-30, Ecogard SE-1 filter
In: Quaker State Full Synthetic 10w-30, Baldwin BT223 filter
Also installed new Briggs air filter and greased the mower spindles and the chassis

 

[ZebRuaj]

Inherited a dead Predator 3500 from the family farm. Only 27 hrs on it.

Out: unknown oil + torch plug + drained 3 yr old gas

In: VP 10w30 I picked up from the wally world fall clearance. And a NGK plug. Started right up.

Now to go about getting some sort of fuel shut off on this thing.

 

[Astro_Guy]

Out: unknown oil + torch plug + drained 3 yr old gas

In: VP 10w30 I picked up from the wally world fall clearance. And a NGK plug. Started right up.

So in your opinion, was it the stale fuel, the POS Chinese plug, or both? What did the plug look like?

 

[Superbuick96]

2022 John Deere S240
10w30 QSFS 2qt.
JD filter

 

[ZebRuaj]

So in your opinion, was it the stale fuel, the POS Chinese plug, or both? What did the plug look like?

Stale fuel did it. I was able to start it on the torch plug with new fuel before I swapped it. It didn't look bad. I'm at low altitude (~1000'). Amazingly the carb wasn't jellied over. The Stabil probably saved me the work, but no way did Stabil preserve the fuel for the years it sat.

 

[tnt_motorsports]

Stale fuel did it. I was able to start it on the torch plug with new fuel before I swapped it. It didn't look bad. I'm at low altitude (~1000'). Amazingly the carb wasn't jellied over. The Stabil probably saved me the work, but no way did Stabil preserve the fuel for the years it sat.

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Yikes that looks ugly! Good luck with the shutoff. My Wen has one from the factory and it works awesome. I never have issues starting it unless I try too soon after turning it back on, lol. You will be miles ahead with a shutoff.

Just my $0.02

 

[Astro_Guy]

Stale fuel did it. I was able to start it on the torch plug with new fuel before I swapped it. It didn't look bad. I'm at low altitude (~1000'). Amazingly the carb wasn't jellied over. The Stabil probably saved me the work, but no way did Stabil preserve the fuel for the years it sat.

Glad to see that you were able to resurrect that generator. I have the same one and it does everything I ask of it. I run it on 89 Octane E0.

My only complaint about it would be the life of the initial battery. I think it quit after two years. That Chinese POS was replaced with an AGM battery from Autozone. It's still going strong two years into this.

As for oil, mine is running 5w-40 RT6 and is coming due for a change. Most of my OPE is getting 15w-40 RT6 now. I may go that route with the Predator as well. It is stored in the garage and would never be called upon to start at a temperature below 32F.

 

[fisher83]

Both of my Honda mowers got 12-13 oz of various partial quarts I had leftover from car oil changes. I just dump all the partials throughout the year into a 5 quart jug and that mix goes in the mowers and snowblower.

 

[Jordan_FX4]

Champion 2500w dual fuel inverter generator. Just bought it on Saturday and ran it for 4 hours under various loads for break-in.

Out: Amsoil Outdoor Powersport 0W-40

In: Same

 

[North]

New Honda EU2200i inverter
First oil change
1hr OCI

Out: Honda factory fill
In: Mobil1 EP 5w30

 

[ZebRuaj]

Glad to see that you were able to resurrect that generator. I have the same one and it does everything I ask of it. I run it on 89 Octane E0.

My only complaint about it would be the life of the initial battery. I think it quit after two years. That Chinese POS was replaced with an AGM battery from Autozone. It's still going strong two years into this.

As for oil, mine is running 5w-40 RT6 and is coming due for a change. Most of my OPE is getting 15w-40 RT6 now. I may go that route with the Predator as well. It is stored in the garage and would never be called upon to start at a temperature below 32F.

Does yours shut the fuel off when it's in the "off" dial? I watched a bunch of videos and it seems like it's supposed to switch the fuel valve off, but I can open the carb bowl screw and it just keeps draining.