Royal Purple Max Cycle 10w30 - Push Mower

[SavagePatch]

I'm using Royal Purple Max Cycle 10w30 in a Husqvarna push mower with a Kohler engine. The mower is used 3/4 of the year to mow my front and back yard. The oil has one year of use on it and it is still purple in color when I check the oil level but in our cars the RP changes from purple to amber pretty quickly. Should I do my annual spring oil change because there's no oil filter or let it run longer because the oil still "looks" new?

Mower takes a little over 1/2qt.

 

[29662]

Change the oil. The purple color is just a dye, and shouldn't be used to judge the life expectancy of oil.

 

[901Memphis]

How many hours are on it and how many hours is the normal interval for your mower? I'm betting it's fine, especially considering everyone getting 5+ years from the FF

 

[mjoekingz28]

Two years may be nice.

Some new mowers come with synthetic (I think) and just require top-offs.

Usually, for low run time, yearly is recommended- but with conventional (or DINO- as we used to call it here on Bob.

 

[KingCake]

You have to change the oil at a set interval NO MATTER THE TYPE OF OIL because those little air cooled engines don't have oil pumps or filters.

Use the cheapest stuff, change it every 24-48 hours of run time.

 

[NH73]

Originally Posted By: mjoekingz28

Some new mowers come with synthetic (I think) and just require top-offs.


Is that what those B&S no oil change engines uses? The first I saw that and that topic was discussed here and no one really seemed to know what oil was used as FF.

 

[mjoekingz28]

It kind of seems to be in-line with how things are getting.

Like, say, in the fifties you could spend an hour every hundred hours maintaining something and it wouldnt quit.

Then, like, you could spend an hour every thousand hours and it would last awhile.

But now, you spend 1/4 hour taking care of it (if that) and a fifty cent part of a complex (and expensive) assembly breaks so you just send it to the landfill and go buy another.

 

[Cujet]

You seem to use the mower quite a bit. With that in mind, yearly oil changes seem to be the right thing to do.

I do let some of my outdoor power equipment engines go 2 years between synthetic oil changes. But only if they are rarely used. Such as my portable generator stored inside the garage.

 

[Eddie]

B & S says change FF at 5 hours and then every 25 for mowers without oil filters. Ed

 

[KingCake]

Originally Posted By: Cujet
You seem to use the mower quite a bit. With that in mind, yearly oil changes seem to be the right thing to do.

I do let some of my outdoor power equipment engines go 2 years between synthetic oil changes. But only if they are rarely used. Such as my portable generator stored inside the garage.


If the engine doesn't have oil filters it must be changed on set schedule REGARDLESS OF OIL TYPE.