How ofen do you change the oil on your small engines, splitter, lawn mowers? Is there a way to drain the oil out of the plug hole.
I change the oil on my splitter every 40 hours of usage ,a 9 HP Honda perhaps overkill but at 3 Grand plus I can't afford not to. Amsoil the best money can buy,most honda engines have the drain hole on the bottom real simple and convenient,takes all of 10 minutes for me and I have zero mechanical abilities.Takes 1 quart.How ofen do you change the oil on your small engines, splitter, lawn mowers? Is there a way to drain the oil out of the plug hole.
How ofen do you change the oil on your small engines, splitter, lawn mowers? Is there a way to drain the oil out of the plug hole.
Highly recommend/encourage the use of synthetic oil in anything that goes suck-squish-bang-blow.
I use Amsoil on every vehicle that I own including the lawn mower. It works really well. A buddy of mine sells it at a great discount.I change the oil on my splitter every 40 hours of usage ,a 9 HP Honda perhaps overkill but at 3 Grand plus I can't afford not to. Amsoil the best money can buy,most honda engines have the drain hole on the bottom real simple and convenient,takes all of 10 minutes for me and I have zero mechanical abilities.Takes 1 quart.
I had inquired about changing my fleet of small engines over to synthetic a few years back, and was told that I would need to pull the oil pan and scrape out the "inevitable sludge" from each, before converting any older engine run for years on oil over to synthetic. Somehting about the synethic breaking down years of sludge build-up in short order, and fouling everything up if you don't take this precautionary step. I never did the research on this myself, but the person telling me seemed to know their stuff, so I just stuck with oil for the time being. Can someone speak with some authority on this?
I was told basically the same thing. Was told you also risk leaks around certain seals that have benefited from a bit of sludge build up to keep them sealed. I use synthetic in engines that saw reg oil during break in period only, otherwise I play it safe.
I change the mower at 50 hours, the quad at 100 hours, and the tiller and splitter once a year. I use dino oil or a synthetic blend.
Never had engine trouble changing them at 6,000 miles.