I filled the oil tank on my lawnmower with gasoline by mistake. What do I do now?
Yeah l know...really stupid. I am sorry. I am not very good with
machines and l did not realize there were two separate tanks, so l filled
the oil tank with gasoline thinking it was the gasoline tank. Now it
is puffing huge clouds of smoke and keeps dying. What do l do to fix
this problem??
Remove the plug. Let the tank air dry. Pull the motor over
several times to get the oil back into the system, after refilling the
tank with oil. Replace the plug and start the motor.
do not run it. empty the oil-tank. drain the gasoline from oil
tank. refill with oil, turn over a few times , then drain oil. now put in
new oil, and if you havent ruined it before, then mow your lawn.
Drain all the Gasoline from the Oil tank.
Then refill the oil tank with #30 motor oil.
Keep your fingers crossed that you have not burned out your engine.
just drain, and leave the cap and the plug off, gas will
evaporate, so it wont hurt, them refill with fresh new oil.
wow, don't start it back up!
there is a plug under the mower, near the shaft that holds the blade, most
have just a 3/8 square hole, but some may just be a lone bolt sticking out.
this is the oil drain hole. put the mower up on something & put an oil pan
under it. take the plug out & open the fill cap & the oil(and gas) will
drain right out. put the plug back in relitively tight & fill it back up
with something like 5w-30 (or just use 87 octane ;-) the mower should be okay as long as you didn't try to run it for too long with the gas in the oil. ps, you should change the oil every fall. do it in the fall so the acids that build up in the oil will not slowly eat the inside of the engine away over the winter. you will also wan't to make sure that you don't leave gas in it over the winter. club furniture suppliers
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