NSR: 'Red-Green' oil change on the HONDA TB-160

[Stig / Major Tom]

Red Green taught me everything I know about proper non-aviation oil changes!
Take the dip-stick out and turn the vehicle over! Cutting edge stuff. (most Americans drain their oil in WalMart parking lots - But I'm too tired to load the Honda into my truck. So .....while the Mrs is out I'll use her lasagna pan)

I harvested some lawn leaves in the 60 degree morning.....and decided, while I'm miserable - might as well do an oil change.



Oil comes out of this port ....and into the ....pan. Most of it.....


Stig

[randyo]

I'm lazy, I don't have a lawn, hence no lawn mower. But I do have a Cricket Toe Hoe that has a Honda GX160 engine, I tow it to the Honda dealer once a year, new plug, clean air filter, change oil

Walmart parking lots ? never heard that one

[Iahawk]

randyo - I think Stig is joking about the reports (real..imagined?) of large number of apartment dwellers and others that go to walmart to buy oil and filter and change it in their parking lot..then go on their way!

Good to see you changing your mower oil, Stig..too many ignore that. My Toro is like your mower, no drain plug. Oil is drained out of the fill tube...all 20 dirty ounces of it.

But can we avoid the dreaded 'lawn mower' talk for a few more months? ... since I started riding, mowing is the Last thing in the world I want to do!

[Neil955i]

randyo - Oil is drained out of the fill tube...all 20 dirty ounces of it.

But can we avoid the dreaded 'lawn mower' talk for a few more months? ... since I started riding, mowing is the Last thing in the world I want to do!

Are there any mowers out there that don't drain outa the fill tube?  I've never found one.

And regarding mower talk, with you 100% Hawk!

[Stig / Major Tom]

Are there any mowers out there that don't drain outa the fill tube?  I've never found one.

And regarding mower talk, with you 100% Hawk!

I had an little old Sear's lawn mower that my brother gave me when he became manager of a Porsche/Audi dealership and could afford a larger, Honda mower.
I had it for 20+ years - constantly replacing the wheels when they broke out of the deck - until finally it was a 3 wheel mower. (easier to use than you might imagine!)
Anyway - every couple of years I'd look at that 'rounded-off' thing I reckoned was the oil drain plug under the deck.
This constituted an "oil change" in my mind.
That thing NEVER had an oil change and never failed to run for at least a quarter of a century!

With its 3 wheels, I set it out by the curb - "engine works great!" and the trash pickers took it.

Stig

[randyo]

I had an little old Sear's lawn mower that my brother gave me when he became manager of a Porsche/Audi dealership and could afford a larger, Honda mower.
I had it for 20+ years - constantly replacing the wheels when they broke out of the deck - until finally it was a 3 wheel mower. (easier to use than you might imagine!)
Anyway - every couple of years I'd look at that 'rounded-off' thing I reckoned was the oil drain plug under the deck.
This constituted an "oil change" in my mind.
That thing NEVER had an oil change and never failed to run for at least a quarter of a century!

With its 3 wheels, I set it out by the curb - "engine works great!" and the trash pickers took it.

we have a couple local families that are always looking for dead power equipment, they are teaching their kids how to fix stuff, once they get it running, they sell it, usually FB Marketplace

I trim the little bit of grass I have with an electric weed whacker. Had a cheap B&D corded, always left outside, for 30+ years, the bearings finally fell out, now using a Ryobi 18v cordless, to keep the whiskers down on my pine needle & moss lawn

Stig