Recent content by GrumpyCat

My initial thought is that warranties on mowers from box stores are hit and miss because a 3rd party is expected to do the service. You are low priority if you didn’t purchase from the servicing dealer.

So you never questioned the orthodoxy you read on the internet claiming the flap around the perimeter holes was to hold oil in the filter between starts? And never noticed oil running out of a used filter laying on it's side? Are you here to only reafirm everything you have "learned" elsewhere...

As stated, Subaru OE filter (and Wix) is empty by the time I get around to removing from hot engine, 5 minutes. Avalon filter was bone dry overnight cold. The Avalon was particularly interesting because it made a huge mess when removed hot. 45° angle spilled oil on hot manifold and active motor...

Lay your old filter on its side. Come back in an hour and rethink your 50 year old belief. The oil will have drained out through your beloved anti-drainback valve. The surface between the punched perimeter holes and valve flap is too crude to form a perfect seal. It isn’t intended to. Or...

Take the filter off cold engine. When you warm it up all you do is fill the filter with oil. “Anti drainback valves” leak everything out in a short time. They exist to prevent the “water hammer” effect from back flushing crud out of the filter when the oil pump suddenly stops when the engine stops.

If the OP wants to use longer blades then the correct answer is, “will it fit?” No detriment if longer blades fit. How much clearance to the deck? How much clearance between center blade and blades to either side? 3 x 24-1/8” has almost no overlap on a 72” deck. BB has spec’ed and shipped...

Come now! Don’t you know You Get What You Pay For? Life is so simple when one doesn’t question higher and ever higher prices. Just makes the product better! The higher the price the better it must be, right? People wouldn’t pay more if it wasn’t better! Or maybe that is just it? One should not...

Use cheap green dishwashing detergent and water. Your steel rims are going to rust eventually no matter what. Don't use a lot of detergent, I'm thinking a spot the size of a half dollar in the bottom of a soup bowl. Then fill bowl 3/4 with water. Dishwashing detergent gets sticky when it drys...

Bearings come in standard sizes. Buy a set of quality bearings and don't over tighten.

You are thinking (rightly) of the old welded tube Snapper. The stamped steel chassis Snapper is not worthy of the name.

All zero-turns.

"Too sharp" will soon become "butter knife sharp". I'm not going to worry about it, but am not going to break out the whetstone to be able to shave with my mower blades.

Sometimes you simply have to try it to know which one or the other.

If it fits in the space available, has same shaft diameter, length, and fittings, then put whatever you have handy on the mower. I keep thinking I'd like to mount a Harley-Davidson engine on mower. Tractor-style vertical exhausts...

I know what that means. It means his paper filter is stopping a lot of dirt from getting in but with that much dirt some gets through. Also means he is not using the foam prefilter, which he badly needs. Another motorcycle trick: on dirtbikes most use a foam air filter. For a prefilter put...