I chose the snowblower oil change project. I punched in Outdoor Power Equipment then chose John Deere 320.
It's a two-cycle engine so you don't change the oil. You just mix the oil with the gas. The general ratio is 50 to 1.
The only reason I was able to write the above is because my brother works on engines and that is what he told me. When I looked up how to change the oil on the SERRC site, it didn't tell me any of this. Just that it was a 2 cycle engine and you mixed the oil with the gas. Which if I had just taken that at face value I would have assumed you put the oil in the gas tank. (LOL! My brother just told me that that is correct.) Okay, so I'm a girl. How am I supposed to know that?
I just looked up another type of snowblower to see if the lubrication is done differently. And it talks about shift rods and drive clutches. For heavens sake just give me a shovel! Why does mankind have to make everything so difficult?
Okay. I looked up some all terrain vehicle (I do not know what that is) engine and I looked up the lubrication section and it was much more detailed and had pictures but it was still too complicated for me to understand. I think I'll just take whatever breaks down to the shop and have someone else fix or maintain it for me.
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