Posted by mkirsch on June 03, 2010 at 05:30:11 from (64.80.108.57):
In Reply to: lawn mower oils posted by pocvalfm on June 02, 2010 at 17:37:28:
Most everything people try to tell you about which oil to use is a bunch of flim-flam, designed to convince you to buy overpriced supposedly "specialty" oils for your various engines.
Look at the person who told you to use SAE30 non-detergent oil. He was made before 1951 too, right? That was the oil he used as a kid in the tractors on the farm. That's the oil he knows. That's the oil he's going to tell you to use.
His recommendation is not based on science or fact. It's based on some mythical, mystical voodoo that he was fed by his elders, who didn't understand engines or oils either.
What's the "right" oil? Look in the manual. Most modern lawn mowers will recommend whatever standard of 10W30 oil was around at the time the mower was manufactured, or better. It will be detergent oil.
If you don't have the manual, don't fret. 10W30 will be good enough, I guarantee it. If the engine blows up it's not because of the oil. The engine would've blown up no matter what oil you used.
Oil is a lot less fussy than the marketing people lead you to believe. As long as it is wet and slippery, it'll work.
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