Thanks for seriously thinking of me. I meant changed the oil.
I thought so...just making sure is all
You never know though. I made a similar mistake once and paid for it.
I watch a handful of Youtube posters who specialize in outdoor power equipment and small engine repairs. One is Donyboy73, a guy out of Canada who has been around a decade now. He posted a video last week in where a brand new $800 Stihl chain saw had its engine ruined because the owner - for the saw's 1st time using it - forgot to mix oil into the gas.
I ruined one of my dad's best replacement Briggs engines after he passed in similar fashion. I had 20+ mowers and roughly 32 or so machines to sort out. My dad after he retired fancied himself as a small engine mechanic, so he got a bunch of lawn mower shells for free and put brand new Briggs engines on the lot. Thousands of $ of engines. For the estate, one of my jobs was sorting them all out. Most all of them he mounted on decks, started them once, yet many sat unsold for over a decade.
I brought one of them home for myself. I had started it up and it ran fine, used it for a couple mows, worked great. But about a month after using it, the engine seized up. What happened is the engine called for 21 ounces of oil. I drained the oil from it and it had about 10 ounces in it. The mower had never been used by my dad and the engine was most likely shipped with just enough oil to test run at the factory.
The Briggs documentation on the engines specifically states add oil to full before running! During all the fixes I did on all those machines, THIS one I apparently forgot to check the oil level. D'OH!
It was humbling...I got all those engines up and running, over 30 different types in all - EXCEPT ONE.
