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worked on lawnmower today: overkill?
Hey,
Today I did some maintainence work on my tractor lawnmower. I changed the oil, oil-filter, air-filter, sparkplugs, and cleaned it up. I didn't feel like buying more motor oil so I used what I had left from my car maintainence. The mower and my car uses the same vicosity of oil, but I only had Mobil 1 handy. So I used Mobil 1 for my lawnmower. Is that overkill? Putting expensive Mobil 1 instead of the cheapo oil into a lawnmower . Since the Mobil 1 is in there already, would it be safe for me not to change the oil ever again, but just change the oil-filter? My mower is used at least once every week during spring and summer.
This was actually the first time I had ever maintainenced it and the thing is 2 years old. My parents never saw or thought about the need to maintainence a lawnmower. When the oil came out, it didn't even look like oil. It looked more like really dark greasey water. Also I must have at least cleaned off several pounds of grass/dirt gunk build up from the thing.
Tried it out afterwards and it runs much more smoothly. Also noticibly more powerful since the grass goes flying further out the outlet shoot.
-Robert
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