How to Maintain Your Lawn Mower and Change the Sparkplug

Lowe's home improvement expert, Mike Kraft, explains proper lawn mower maintenance and shares tune-up advice. Learn how to replace a lawn mower air filter and change a sparkplug. For more lawn mower tips, visit http://www.Lowes.com/Videos

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• change sparkplug
• lawn mowers maintenance
• lawn mower repair advice

[DBsmallengine]

i repair mowers and it makes me mad how everyone says to replace the sparkplug every year, but what they dont know is it is a waist of time and money, alls you need to know about sparkplugs are that they will break,as everything will,but to tell a good one from a bad is after you take it off you look at the part that is in the cylinder and if it looks dry and composit free you are good to go, if it is dry but has deposits you take a wire brush and clean it up, a bad one looks very oily and dirty

[DBsmallengine]

@moni370 im in the mower repair business and alls that would happen is it would smoke like a bitch because oil leaks into the combustion chamber if you have a concrete drive dont worry about gas it doesnt affect it but it will destroy a black top drive so i think the plastic thing is a waist of time

[012Wallace]

The Honda manual also says to pour two tablespoons of oil in the spark plug hole and to pull the starter a few times with the plug wire off to distribute it in the cylinder so i doesn't rust during storage.

[godbacks09]

My mower has a hookup for a hose to clean the bottom. I clean it after every mowing. I also get any loose grass or leaves or dirt off the top of the mower and off the deck.

[BSBrando]

These are great! I started doing lawnmower and chainsaw repair for school. Never opened one up in my life haha.

[jamesbrunhilde]

@Xanapus this guy is a genius. I bet if you watch his videos on mower repair, you will be able to fix it yourself and save a few bucks. typen into youtube: "how to fix a briggs and stratton mower part 1". It doesnt matter if your mower isn't Briggs, because they are mainly all the same.

[littleelvis1996]

I LOVE LOWES they are so helpful, I came for a spark plug for the lawn mower, (spark plug makes VERY easy to start) they sent me to AUTOZONE because I didnt have right spark plug, mine was heavy duty. anyway thanks LOWES

[TheUFOeffect]

when you pull a lawnmower to start it...is the cord supposed to yank back or go back to its original position right away. i cant start my lawnmower and i noticed when i pull it, there still some slack when i try to start it again right after the previous pull.

[Xanapus]

We had our lawnmower serviced a couple of years ago and I only mowed maybe 4 times then it refused to start. I didn't mow the rest of the season but had to use a weed wacker to mow. Next season came and I couldn't get it to work so I changed the oil but didn't know about covering the gas tank with plastic and it worked but not for too long, had to use weed wacker again. It's been sitting there all this time. I guess I don't know what I'm doing lol. Have to service it again.

[bryant24able]

@Hillsider1087

Hillsider you have to change the oil; because oil deposits can break down when it is not used and cause it to damage the engine and sharpening the blade helps the Grass to cut better. It is called preventive maintenance. I understand that you have you mower for Eighteen Years; but not doing those certain things to lawnmower is not good. Like Gasman says the engine has damage you do not even know.