Video: How to Change the Oil in a Lawnmower

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Learn how to how to drain and change the oil in your lawnmower in this free DIY video clip on lawn mower maintenance.

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thelazer Aug 09, 2010
Mate, you've had a total mare. My mower doesn't have a drain plug, instead there's an engine mount where the drain plug is on your's. To change the oil on mine I need to tip in up on one side and drain it out that way. MIght do well to mention this in your video.
evuser14309 May 19, 2009
Thanks, Acton i WAS WEB SEACHING and found your site, I've put gas into my oil reservor..Thanks to you i know how to drain it out. Thanks Lv.
reddogmama Aug 02, 2008
I just found this site by doing a search on lawn mower and draining oil. This is FABULOUS! All the categories, great video clips, I'm definitely going to bookmark this site for future use and I will tell others. Thanks, Acton, for the information! Now when I cannot find a user's manual, I'll check right here! --Jeanne
reddogmama Aug 02, 2008
I just found this site by doing a search on lawn mower and draining oil. This is FABULOUS! All the categories, great video clips, I'm definitely going to bookmark this site for future use and I will tell others. Thanks, Acton, for the information! Now when I cannot find a user's manual, I'll check right here! --Jeanne

Video Transcript

Hello, this is Acton Seibel on behalf of Expert Village.com and today we are going to talk about how to drain your oil. On this model you want to tip your lawnmower back as far as it will go or as far and safe you feel it will go and locate your oil plug or drain hole. So on this model the oil plug is right here and our drain hole is right there; right next to the blade. So the things that you are going to need is some ratchets with appropriate size sockets on them, an oil pan and some regular lawnmower engine oil or SAE-30 weight oil. Super easy. So get your oil pan and your oil plug and what we are going to do is loosen our oil plug. Just loosen it and slowly remove it with your finger tips. There you go. Now it is going to take a couple of minutes to drain completely. Don’t worry about getting all of the oil out because it is not all going to come out. You are still going to have a little bit of oil in there but that is okay. So once you feel like it is drained as much as it is going to drain, just put that back in, tighten it finger tight, take your ratchet and tighten it a little bit more. While there is no reason for you to jam on it or like tighten it to ridiculous portions because it is a plastic bolt and you don’t want to like strip your threads moving the bolt itself; like I said before it is plastic. Just make sure that it is tight enough and it will not vibrate off when you are running it.

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How to Change the Oil in a Lawnmower

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