Installing The Recoil-Starter Rope In The Rope Guide; Filling The Engine With Oil - Toro 20899 Mode D'emploi

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Installing the Recoil-Starter
Rope in the Rope Guide
No Parts Required
Procedure
Important: To start the engine safely and easily
whenever you use the machine, install the recoil-starter
rope in the rope guide.
Pull the recoil-starter rope through the rope guide on the
handle (Figure 5).
1. Recoil-starter rope
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Filling the Engine with Oil

No Parts Required
Procedure
Important: Your machine does not come with oil in
the engine. Before starting the engine, fill the engine
crankcase with oil.
1. Move the machine to a level surface.
2. Remove the dipstick
the crankcase capacity of oil into the oil-fill tube.
Note: Max fill: 0.55 L (18.6 oz), type: SAE 30
detergent oil with an API service classification of SF,
SG, SH, SJ, SL, or higher.
Figure 5
2. Rope guide
(Figure 6) and pour about 3/4 of
3. Wipe the dipstick clean with a clean cloth.
4. Insert the dipstick into the oil-fill tube, but do not
screw it in.
5. Remove the dipstick and read the oil level on the
dipstick; refer to
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If the oil level is too low, slowly pour a small
amount of oil into the oil-fill tube, wait 3 minutes,
and then repeat steps
is correct as shown in
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If the oil level is too high, drain the excess oil until
the oil level is correct as shown in
drain the excess oil, refer to
Oil (page 17).
Important: If the oil level in the crankcase is too
low or too high and you run the engine, you may
damage the engine.
6. Install the dipstick into the oil-fill tube securely.
Important: Change the engine oil after the first 5
operating hours ; change it yearly thereafter. Refer
to Changing the Engine Oil (page
6
Figure 6
Figure 6.
3 through 5 until the oil level
Figure 16.
Figure
Changing the Engine
17).
16. To