Installing The Recoil-Starter Rope In The Rope Guide; Filling The Engine With Oil - Toro 20899 Manuel De L'utilisateur

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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.
Hold the blade-control bar to the upper handle and
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 with oil.
Engine Oil Specifications
Engine oil capacity
Oil viscosity
API service classification
Figure 5
2. Rope guide
0.55 L (18.6 fl oz)
SAE 30 or SAE 10W-30
detergent oil
SJ or higher
1. Move the machine to a level surface.
2. Remove the dipstick by rotating the cap
counterclockwise and pulling it out
1. Full
2. High
3. Carefully pour about 3/4 of the engine capacity
of oil into the oil-fill tube.
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4. Wait 3 minutes for the oil to settle in the engine.
5. Wipe the dipstick clean with a clean cloth.
6. Insert the dipstick into the oil-fill tube, but do not
screw it in, then remove the dipstick.
7. Read the oil level on the dipstick
•
If the oil level on the dipstick is too low,
carefully pour a small amount of oil into the
oil-fill tube, wait 3 minutes, and repeat steps
5 through
the correct level.
•
If the oil level on the dipstick is too high, drain
the excess oil until the oil on the dipstick is
at the correct level; refer to
Engine Oil (page
Important:
low or too high and you run the engine, you
may damage the engine.
8. 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
5
(Figure
Figure 6
3. Add
(Figure
7 until the oil on the dipstick is at
Changing the
18).
If the oil level in the engine is too
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