Maintaining Your McLane Lawn Edger

Owning a lawn edger is like owning a vehicle. To maintain it functioning smoothly, periodically you want to perform servicing on it to hold it working the way you want. Here are the upkeep methods you need to get to preserve your McLane edger with Briggs & Stratton motor in superior working situation.

1. Oil – When you initially obtain your garden edger, you will most likely have to have to fill it with oil (about 2/3rds of a quart). McLane edgers are not shipped with oil in them and jogging the motor prior to you fill the edger with oil can damage the motor. Use a synthetic 5W-30 or 10W-30 grade motor oil. Just after the initial 5-8 hrs of operation, you will want to vacant and swap the oil. Following that, you ought to normally only need to have to switch the oil following every 50 hrs of operation. I personally like to substitute my edger’s oil at the get started of every mowing/edging year.

2. Air Filter – McLane edgers can appear with two varieties of filters – both an oval filter or a rectangular-formed filter with a pre-cleaner pad. If it employs an oval filter, you will need to cleanse and/or substitute your edger’s air filter every single 25 hrs. If your garden is very dry and dusty, you will likely want to check out your air filter far more often than that. If it employs a rectangular filter with a pre-cleaner, you will want to test and either clean or substitute the pre-cleaner after every single 25 hrs of operation. You can quickly clear the pre-cleaner with water and liquid detergent. Make confident it is completely dry before you place it back on your edger. You would not need to swap the rectangular filter right up until immediately after 100 several hours of operation. Even so, when I verify the pre-cleaner right after 25 hours of operation, I also consider out the rectangular filter and hit it versus my other hand to remove some of the dust that it will have gathered.

3. Grease – McLane edgers have two grease fittings on the cutter head entire body. You will want to increase grease to these two fittings 2 times a mowing time. I advocate executing it initially at the start of the period and the second time midway by way of the period. Use #2 multi-goal grease in your grease gun.

4. Spark Plug – At the begin of the mowing/edging period, eliminate your edger’s spark plug and examine its problem. Immediately after that, look at it soon after each individual 50 hrs of edger operation. Just after 100 hrs of procedure, you will want to change the spark plug. Be guaranteed and check out the spark plug’s hole applying a gap gauge (the appropriate gap is.30″ (.76mm)) just before you reinstall your old plug or install a new plug.

5. Blade – At the commence of the time, examine the affliction of your edger’s cutter blade. If it is worn down, change it with a new blade.

6. Standard Upkeep – Various situations in the course of the time, do the following things: (1) check out and tighten all bolts and screws on your edger – in particular the cutterhead pulley guard, the blade guard, and the blade mounting nut (which bear a whole lot of vibration during the procedure of the edger) (2) inspect the pulley belt to make positive it is not showing extreme have on or deterioration (if so, substitute it) and (3) lubricate the edger’s front axle & wheels (e.g., using 3-in-1 oil or a spray lubricant).

Executing these upkeep ways will enable retain your edger in superior operating issue for a lot of mowing/edging seasons!