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My Grandfather recently passed. I got his old (~20 years old) Toro 210-H.

He took great care of it, but toward the end, he didn't mow himself, so it sat for the last 2 years. I'm starting to clean it up but I've run into a question.

Beneath the seat is some type of fluid reservoir. What goes in there?

Now depending on whom I ask, I've been told that it's SAE-30 oil for mixing with the gasoline for the engine, I've been told that it's oil, but for the transmission - so it's a different type, and I've been told that it's transmission fluid for the hydrostatic.

Would anyone be able to give me some insight? I don't want to ruin it by putting the wrong thing in there.

My grandfather talked about how reliable this mower was and I'd love to resurrect it.

Thanks for your help.

Reservoir is for the transmission fluid. Per the Wheel Horse spec, SAE 30 oil. Many have used 10W-30 or 10W-40 with success.

Get the model & serial numbers to look up all parts diagrams, manuals & a variety of other documents from the Toro website:

https://lookup3.toro.com/partdex/index.cfm?xCaller=Toro

There is a very good website specifically for Wheel Horses with tremendous amounts of information:

RedSquare

That's great! Thanks for the info and the resource.

I'll get this cleaned up and running and I'll try to post a picture.

Thanks again.