Maintaining Your McLane Lawn Edger

Website design By BotEap.comOwning a lawn edger is like owning a car. To keep it running smoothly, you should periodically maintain it to keep it working the way you want it to. Here are the maintenance steps you should take to keep your Briggs & Stratton powered McLane Edger in good working order.

Website design By BotEap.com1. Oil – When you first buy your lawn edger, you will probably need to fill it with oil (about 2/3 of a quart). McLane edgers are not shipped with oil and running the engine before filling the edger with oil can ruin the engine. Use a 5W-30 or 10W-30 grade synthetic motor oil. After the first 5 to 8 hours of operation, you’ll want to drain and replace the oil. After that, you should normally only change the oil every 50 hours of operation. I personally like to replace the oil in my edger at the beginning of each mowing/edging season.

Website design By BotEap.com2. Air Filter – McLane edgers can come with two types of filters: an oval filter or a rectangular filter with a pre-cleaner pad. If you use an oval filter, you will need to clean and/or replace your trimmer’s air filter every 25 hours. If your lawn is extremely dry and dusty, you’ll probably want to check your air filter more often than that. If you’re using a rectangular filter with a pre-filter, you’ll want to check and clean or replace the pre-filter after every 25 hours of operation. You can easily clean the prefilter with water and liquid detergent. Make sure it is completely dry before you put it back on your trimmer. You will not need to replace the rectangular filter until after 100 hours of operation. However, when I check the pre-cleaner after 25 hours of operation, I also pull out the rectangular filter and smack it against my other hand to remove some of the dust that may have accumulated.

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Website design By BotEap.comPerforming these maintenance steps will help keep your trimmer in good working order for many cutting/edging seasons!