{"id":3248,"date":"2023-10-28T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T03:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawnmowing101.com\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T04:18:01","slug":"how-much-oil-to-put-in-a-lawn-mower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawnmowing101.com\/how-much-oil-to-put-in-a-lawn-mower\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Oil to Put in a Lawn Mower?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Have you ever wondered just how much oil to put in a lawn mower? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You are not alone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other day I got a call from a lawn-mowing contractor and his mowers had both died. He was panicking and wanted to borrow a mower from me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have a policy where we won’t loan our equipment so I thought the best way forward was to find out exactly what went wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He told me that the other day he noticed that his two mowers were getting low on oil so he bought a gallon of oil and completely filled both mowers then headed off to work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By lunchtime, they had both died. Frankly Im not surprised. Just because you can fill your oil reservoir to the top doesn’t mean you should. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I gave him step-by-step instructions (I will tell you about that later) on what to do to get rid of the excess oil and he had his mowers running again in no time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s lucky that he rang me as soon as it happened. <\/p>\n\n\n\n