Do this before you start up your mower for the season.
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- This mower is 40 years old and still starts up every time because I do this. After sitting around for a few months, the piston and cylinder in a lawnmower engine gets dry and when you try to start it up, you are causing the cylinder walls to wear very quickly, until the oil in the crankcase is thrown up. Spraying in some WD-40 will lubricate the cylinder walls and drive out moisture, saving the rings and cylinders from unnecessary wear.
That's a K-Mart Special, too. A new spark plug, a pump gasket, and new oil would be doing the most. Otherwise, just clean the mower deck, and spray with WD-40. Sharpen and balance the blade. Check wheels for wobble and nuts for tightness, along with the rest of the frame. Many of the mowers you see on the side of the road can be fixed so easy. Pump Gasket, or a varnished bowl, needle and seat. This is all before a rebuild, and 40 more years.
You should probably do that before you park it for the winter
Love those older Briggs and Stratton engines. Hard to kill.
Gas stabil works too for storing away into the winter months
check for spark before you put the plug back in.
It's probably is a bit of both. It smokes for about two minutes after you start it but then blows clean exhaust.
Not a bad idea WD (Water Dispenser) Mineral oil lubricant. Also works great to clean fuel injectors.
Try to find 'Non Ethanol' fuel for your mower and you will not have any issues especially after storing.
WD 40 is kinda both. Its a lubricate. But at the same time its flammable to start the lawn mower...
WD 40, interesting. Does it act like a starting fluid or lubricate cylinder and piston rings, for that 1st startup?
It lubricates the cylinder, piston and rings from sitting dry all winter. It also helps the valves not stick in the valveguides.