How To Winterize Your Power Lawnmower:

The article gives you systematic instructions for making sure that your lawn mower is usable when the spring arrives and you require your lawn mower once again. If you do not take these minor precautions, the left r fuel in carburetor w make your lawn mower unusable at the end of ter.

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After you rake out all the leaves, do not relax. Remember Robert Frost. There are miles to go before you sleep and miles (well not exactly) to go before your lawn mower is allowed to sleep. Unless you do it, your lawn mower might be put to a longer sleep. It may not wake up when ter goes away, and when you need your lawn mower most.

The How of Lawn Mower Winterizing

Gasoline in the carburetor of your lawn mower, does not take kindly to lowered temperatures of ter. The gasoline gums up and when you try to restart it after the ter, there s no gasoline flow to your engine and it does not start. You w not be able to do the maintenance by yourself. You w lose time and money making the trip to your friendly neighborhood mechanic. You get all this, for not follog up simple steps of terizing your lawn mower. Avoid all this terize your lawn mower.

The How of Lawnmowers Winterizing

There are some simple steps for terizing your lawn mower. You do it your self without involving any one else.

1. The first thing to do is to rem the gasoline in the tank. This be done by siphoning the contents in the in a plastic . Usually a single gallon container should be sufficient.

2. Keep the tightly closed after deting contents of the lawn mower. Place the in such a way that it not topple r and sp the content.

3. If you use the same grade of gasoline in your car, transfer the content to the car tank, it is much safer that way, or transfer it to ter heating system if that is possible instead of storing gasoline in a .

4. Run the engine until the remaining fuel is completely consumed and engine stops on its own.

5. Drain gearbox oil and crank case oil. Dispose off the oil as per guidelines from municipal authorities for disposal of hazardous waste or hand it r to municipal authorities for doing it. NEVER, EVER, dump it in sewer or on ground.

6. Rem the spark plug, put lubricating oil (about 50 militer) through the opening, and crank up the engine using the rope, so the piston and crankshaft is lubricated.

7. Ensure that you are wearing hand gls before you do any of the follog activities and take safety precautions to avoid any injury to your hands.

8. Turn r the engine and clean the undersides of the lawn mower to rem traces of grass, muck attached to the blades and clean the working parts of lawn mower. Rem any foreign material lodged between blade and body.

9. With a small piece of steel wool, clean all the underside areas and rem any rest from the crs and body of the lawn mower.

10. Apply protective solution like WD-40 to the cleaned up surfaces

11. If required, rem, sharpen and refit the blade, and turn the lawn mower to its normal position.

12. Change the air filter and the oil filter. If it is possible to clean the air filter, you do so, but if it is made of paper, it must be replaced. The air filters and oil filters also be replaced just before re-using the lawn mower, but it pays to do this while terizing as you might forget doing so before starting.

13. F up the tires with air and wheel it to its resting place for ter

When spring arrives and the grass is ready to be cut, f up the fuel tank with gasoline and start up. Your old faithful lawn mower w purr into motion and you w be ready for your lawn maintenance. It w purr like a contented cat.