Maintenance How-To

Maintenance & Repair Tips

Using the Right Fuel

Condition Your Engine to Perform Use Briggs & Stratton Fuel Fit™ fuel stabilizer products to help keep your fuel fit for up to 24 months,promote...

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Small Engine Tune-Up Schedule

Tune-up your outdoor power equipment to keep it running through the season. Whenever you choose to tune up, be sure to do it once a year. Have a look...

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Top 5 Mower Troubleshooting Tips

How To Fix It Yourself, Fast! It happens to the best of us, and to the best of lawn mowers: Suddenly, your most important landscaping sidekick...

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Storing Your Equipment

Perform some simple seasonal storage and startup maintenance in the spring, fall or whenever you store your equipment for prolonged periods of time....

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Seasonal Storage

Your lawn mower has been a faithful fair weather companion. So at the end of the mowing season, give it the attention it deserves. Spend just a...

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Riding Mower Maintenance

How to Maintain Your Riding Lawn Mower Have a big, sloping yard with lots of landscaping features like trees and flowerbeds? Riding mowers make yard...

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Riding Mower Engine Tune Up Guide

We understand. There’s a certain bond you have with your weekend turf warrior companion: your riding mower. So, of course, you don’t want to drive it...

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How to Learn to Repair Small Engines

Learning to repair your own small engine is easier than you might think. There are many easy fixes and regular maintenance steps to take that will...

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How to Maintain Your Lawn Mower Engine

Tune-up: Learn how to tune-up your engine. Tuning up is good for your engine and the environment. It will also save you money. Our interactive demo...

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How to Choose a Spark Plug

Getting Started with Briggs & Stratton For consistent, easy starting, change your spark plug every 100 hours or every season, whichever comes first....

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How to Change Oil

Steps to Better Engine Maintenance For optimum performance, you should change the oil in your small engine after the first five hours of use and then...

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Changing a Foam Air Filter in Your Briggs & Stratton Engine

A Briggs & Stratton genuine foam filter element is designed to properly fit your engine and will keep dust particles from getting into your engine....

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Changing the Air Filter in Your Briggs & Stratton Engine

Briggs & Stratton engines use one of three types of air filters: paper, foam, or dual element. An air filter plus a filter cartridge and pre-cleaner...

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