Siphon the lawnmower oil?

RedMF40

Well-known Member
I want to change the oil today, instructions for this mower say to tip it over and let the oil run out. Fun. If I raise it up in my loader bucket and use my cheap hand-pump siphon, do you think it'll get most of the old oil out? Any other suggestions? Thanks for any thoughts, Gerrit
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Warm it up, remove the plug, tip it over and dump it into the old cake pan you sneaked out of the kitchen and buy
mama a new one. It won't take two minutes total except the trip to Dollar General. gm
 
As others have said, warm it up first is probably the most important step. Tip it on its side to drain the oil out, or raise the fuel tank side up a couple of inches and siphon out the oil, either method works very well.
 
X2 ! I bought a suction gun at Carquest for around $14 and I use it on my mowers and to change the power steering fluid , handy and time saving !
 
This is what I came up with. Worked much better than I expected, which is unusual where my projects are concerned. Only thing I'd change for future efforts is having the bulb up closer to the oil fill. It worried me a little with it hanging down there but somehow it was secure and I didn't need to fiddle with it. Oil all drained on its own.

For the comment about running it until it dies, I tried that. Didn't work. This is the first oil change in over seven years. I guess I got busy. I probably didn't need to disclose that but we're all honest about our maintenance habits here, right?

Thanks for the suggestions and comments, Gerrit




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Tip it and then you can remove blade to sharpen and clean the deck while it is draining. First time
I changed oil on my Cub Cadet with Honda engine, I looked all over for the drain. Went and got the
operators manual out.

Then I did like it said and tipped it. Didn't bother shutting off gas or anything and it worked out
fine.
 
IF there is no drain plug. Run the gas tank empty and tip the
mover on the side. Done that a few times..
 
(quoted from post at 15:30:52 05/10/22) IF there is no drain plug. Run the gas tank empty and tip the
mover on the side. Done that a few times..
nd there is always a spot of hard to kill weeds somewhere! :idea:
 

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