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GASOLINE ENGINE
MAINTENANCE
The Importance of Maintenance
Good maintenance is essential for safe, economical, and trouble-free operation. It will also help reduce air pollution.
To help you properly care for your engine, the following pages include a maintenance schedule, routine inspection procedures,
and simple maintenance procedures using basic hand tools. Other service tasks that are more difficult, or require special tools,
are best handled by professionals, and are normally performed by a technician or other qualified mechanic.
The maintenance schedule applies to normal operating conditions. If you operate your engine under unusual conditions, such as
sustained high-load or high-temperature operation, or use in unusually wet or dusty conditions, consult your servicing dealer for
recommendations applicable to your individual needs and use.
Maintenance Safety
Some of the most important safety precautions are as follows: However, we cannot warn you of every conceivable hazard that can
arise in performing maintenance. Only you can decide whether you should perform a given task.
Safety Precautions
Make sure the engine is off before you begin any maintenance or repairs. This will eliminate several potential hazards:
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Engine Exhaust
Be sure there is adequate ventilation whenever you operate the engine.
Injury from Hot Parts
Let the engine and exhaust system cool before touching.
Injury from Moving Parts
Do not run engine unless instructed to do so.
• Read the instructions before you begin, and make sure you have the tools and skills required.
• To reduce the possibility of fire or explosion, be careful when working around gasoline. Use only a nonflammable solvent, not
gasoline, to clean parts. Keep cigarettes, sparks, and flames away from all fuel-related parts.
Remember that your servicing dealer knows your engine best and is fully equipped to maintain and repair it.
To ensure the best quality and reliability, use only new, genuine parts or their equivalents for repair and replacement.
Improperly maintaining this engine, or failure to correct a problem before operation, can cause a malfunction in which you
can be seriously hurt or killed.
Always follow the inspection and maintenance recommendations and schedules in this owner’s manual.
Failure to properly follow maintenance instructions and precautions can cause you to be seriously hurt or killed.
Always follow the procedures and precautions in the owner’s manual.
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