New Use For Bed Extender

[JohnnyO]

If it stops working I'll just go garbage pickin' for a new one. Every spring they line the curbs from people too dumb and lazy to get them started (usually just varnish in the carb). The one I have now just had a broken string when I found it, I never even fixed it. I just start it with a drill...

Had issued with my old mower a while ago. Took it to the shop where they said the ethanol that's in the gas now gums up in the carbs of small engines. They told me to put Sta-Bil in the gas all the time, not just for winter storage. No issues since with the mower, snowblower, or jetski.

 

[sgtsandman]

I do that. Stabil goes in every time the can gets filled. That and I run the fuel system dry before it gets put away at the end of the season. It doesn't matter if it's a four or two stroke.

 

[Snoranger]

You don’t change lawn mower engine oil... you just check it occasionally and top it off with whatever you oil find first (vegetable, olive, or engine oil are all acceptable.)

 

[Dirtman]

I always use ethanol free marine fuel for my small engines. Its cheaper than buying tru-fuel or constantly mixing in additives.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

I soda blasted and pressure tanked the internals of my kohler 14.

I ported and polished the head.

I ran a tank of pure seafoam to reforge the piston in hate.

It's crankcase is filled with a little valvoline 5w20 and mostly liqui moly MOS2 and a little ceratec

It has an e3 plug

I sanded the head to bump compression.

Yo mowa ain't got sheet on mine.

The next step is to use some scrap tubing to make it a header.

Anyone got a vw smog pump?

 

[Snoranger]

I soda blasted and pressure tanked the internals of my kohler 14.

I ported and polished the head.

I ran a tank of pure seafoam to reforge the piston in hate.

It's crankcase is filled with a little valvoline 5w20 and mostly liqui moly MOS2 and a little ceratec

It has an e3 plug

I sanded the head to bump compression.

Yo mowa ain't got sheet on mine.

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The next step is to use some scrap tubing to make it a header.

Anyone got a vw smog pump?

Look at that... more power then a health 2.9L

 

[Grumpaw]

I'm sure there's someone out there who buys amsoil just for their lawnmower...

Not Amsoil, but I'm one of those maintenance nuts that keeps proper oil, synthetic, on hand for everything, from weed eater to generator and snow blower. Veh's (4) get changed every 5000 miles, and all small engines every year. Use synthetic in everything. Oldest is a 24 year old Echo weed eater that still starts on second pull. Have a 22 year old Craftsman mower, bought new, still runs like new.
Say what you will, but I'm convinced proper maintenance and oil has kept everything running properly.
Too old to change my ways now.
Grumpaw

 

[racsan]

I run sta-bil year round, never know when the “last run” of the season may be. Used my saw yesterday and it fired right up 2nd pull, it hadnt ran since last july or august. Might try to fire up the golf cart today, its been tucked inside a trailer since last sept. I change oil yearly in my small engines and every 6 months in the vehicles. I also run 2 cycle mix in my small fuel containers, doesnt hurt the push mower one bit but if I fueled the weed eater with the wrong stuff it would be over pretty fast.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Look at that... more power then a health 2.9L

 

[Snoranger]

 

[JohnnyO]

I soda blasted and pressure tanked the internals of my kohler 14.

I ported and polished the head.

I ran a tank of pure seafoam to reforge the piston in hate.

It's crankcase is filled with a little valvoline 5w20 and mostly liqui moly MOS2 and a little ceratec

It has an e3 plug

I sanded the head to bump compression

Of course you did.

 

[wildbill23c]

The mower I have now don't even have a drain plug. You either never change the oil or you tip the mower over and pour the oil out the fill tube...I guess most of the new ones are going that route now...every 10 cents saved not drilling and tapping a hole in the sump and putting in a drain plug adds up after a few engines LOL. I assume the el-cheapo ones you find at a lot of the box stores are that way, the ones at dealers are probably still old school with drain plugs, haven't checked any dealers lately though.

I really need to pull the old Echo 302s chainsaw out and see if it'll start, may need a carb for it, I haven't ran that thing in a couple years now sadly. Poor thing has been beat up, put away dirty and never properly maintained, time to dig it out and give it a nice cleaning, tune-up carb replacement, etc. Had a Poulan Pro saw for a couple years, the old Echo is still going, the Poulan already died LOL. Want to get a Stihl but heck don't use a chainsaw often enough anymore to really mess with a gas saw anymore.

I run Tru-Fuel in my leaf blower and trimmer as I don't use them every week, maybe once or twice a month. Put the blower away last fall with fuel in it, started right up this spring. Just bought the trimmer this year and its had Tru-Fuel in it since I got it.

Lawn mower & lawn tractor both get non-ethanol fuel, the lawn mower I run out of fuel at the end of the season, the lawn tractor gets the snow blower mounted on it in the fall and gets used through the winter so it don't need much in the way of fuel treatment, although I put a bottle of fuel system cleaner in the gas when I fill the can up so the mower and lawn tractor get fuel cleaner every tank of fuel regardless.

 

[Blmpkn]

Tru-fuel for things that need mixed and don't use a lot of gas like the whacker and chainsaw.

Everything else gets gas from the pump. What I do with the snowblower is once April rolls around I'll start it up, shut the fuel off and let it run its carb dry. Couple pulls come november/december and she fires right back up.

 

[Dirtman]

I cannot justify spending 6 bucks a quart on gas no matter how convenient it is.

 

[wildbill23c]

I cannot justify spending 6 bucks a quart on gas no matter how convenient it is.

Until the equipment fails and you spend hundreds getting it fixed or have to replace it then its quite justified....

Yeah if you use your equipment all day everyday use non-ethanol and mix your own, but for many that's not the case they use it maybe once or twice a month, or several months between. As is my case, chainsaw gets used maybe once or twice a year if its lucky, trimmer gets used maybe once a month, same with the blower. So for about $12 a year its money well spent as I usually go through maybe 1-1/2 to 2 of those cans. This year I have yet to open a can of fuel.

The lawn tractor and push mower get used during the week so no issues there with fuel and I use non-ethanol fuel in them anyways and add fuel treatments just about every time I fill the gas cans, I forgot the last time LOL.