Yes... The five hour oil change is essential. The reason is that the first oil-change gets any machining or assembly debris out of the motor. With respect to the air-cleaner, did the manufacturer spec a particular type of oil? Usually on a cleanable foam filter they require a special light oil that will hold the dirt in suspension until you rins it out.
HTH Regards Larry Stansifer -----Original Message----- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of compgirl32 Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 10:48 AM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Question about soaking the air cleaner oil foam in my new lawn mower Hi everyone, I just bought a new WEED EATER push lawn mower with a Briggs & Stratton engine this past weekend. I was going over the owner's manual (yes, a woman reading a power tool manual :)),and it says under changing oil section to soak the air cleaner foam in oil and wring out with a soft cloth and replace. My question is, do I do this before I use the mower for the first time? All the manual says is to do it when you change the oil. It also says to change the oil after the first five hours of operation. Is this necessary? Thank you very much. Vicki To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions >From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach Infowest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 87950115) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=87950115&m=a7406 64c9324&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=87950115&m=a7406 64c9324&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=87950115&m=a7406 64c9324&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
