How to Drain Gas from Riding Lawn Mower? (with video)
Have you ever tried to find out how to drain gas from riding lawn mower? Riding lawn mowers look like small tractors. They are more appropriate for clearing out lawns covered in larger areas. They are bigger in size than the push lawnmowers.
The riding lawn mowers that we use are usually stand-on types which are also known as zero-turn lawnmowers. They look similar to the urban tractors through which you can use them with a higher speed to cut and trim your lawn’s grass.
How to drain gas from riding lawn mower?
The basic query is, why do we have to do that? What is the reason that we should know how to drain gas from riding lawn mower?
When your fuel starts to rest in the base of your fuel tank, it starts to deposit residuals of ethanol to the bottom. This can lead to the fuel of lower quality for the combustion of your engine, and your mower will start to go rougher and makes it harder to start because of liquid fuel clotting.
In the winter season, draining off your fuel after every drive is healthy for your riding lawn mower’s engine health.
By keeping it in practice will let you know how important it is for you. It can also tell you how it will be far off from the poor performance in the upcoming spring.
Now coming up to the next part, in order to be able to do that at your place because it will not be convenient for you to take it every time for service.
Some simple steps
There are some of the basic and easy steps that you can perform yourself to drain your fuel gas. The following process contains all the necessary steps:
First of all, your riding lawn mower needs to be in a stationary state on some flat surface where the fuel can settle evenly.
Take some bottles or even jugs with the caps open next to your lawnmower so that you start filling them up without wasting.
Get some funnel or pipe of brass metal and clear it up of any gas.
Now is the time to take off the fuel tank cap. Start rotating it anti-clockwise to open it.
As soon as you are done with moving it, insert that funnel in the tank, and the other end should be getting inside the jug or your air-tight regular bottle. If you do not see the bottle filling up, try to shake the bottle and move the funnel in and out to start the process of siphoning. After a little while, you will see the gas moving inside your bottle from your tank.
Be aware of how much your bottle is filled. When you see the three-fourth of it is filled up, take out the funnel so that the remaining volume will be covered up with the gas in the funnel.
Continue doing that process until you see that no more gas is coming out through the funnel.
The remaining gas should go out. Lose the crank of your mower and let it all out until your lawnmower becomes idle and free from all gasoline.
Cover up the bottles with caps or some lid to avoid spillage. It is even better and safer to use duct tape on them.
Now it requires some rinsing. Take more than half of the bucket of water, depending on the tank’s size, and fill it up again with water with the help of your siphon. Put the siphon then to dry out before using it anywhere else.
Now instead of taking the whole mower, take that taken out gasoline to some recycling center as you cannot keep them anywhere, stopping it from making pollution.
After draining out the gas, fill up the tank with new fuel every time. This process will take a little of your efforts, but the results will be guaranteed. The life of your riding lawn mower will tend to elongate. Doing it in the fall season is a must because your gasoline may start to freeze. If not, then it will settle down in the bottom, and you should be taking good care of your mower, so don’t let that happen.
Difference between riding mowers and lawn tractors:
There is a common confusion that we have seen in people’s minds. Most people see the riding lawn mowers and lawn tractors as the same. However, there is a big difference in their purpose of working. The foremost difference is the location of its cutting deck.
The cutting deck in riding lawn mowers is under its front, whereas the tractors have it in the middle area. This location in lawnmowers comes in handy because it makes your device more movable and functional that. The gardens having shrubs or trees requires a riding lawn mower, not a tractor.
How to drain gas from a John Deere Lawn Mower:
The Deere lawn mowers are easier to empty their fuel tanks if you need to store them for the next season if you want to do some repairing by removing its carburetor. Rather than consuming up all the fuel, you can go for the same process of siphoning.
The tip to keep in mind is that the siphon requires storing it at some secure place away from the heat. The siphons are usually available at the home improvement stores, and you can get one at a reasonable price.
Conclusion:
After the most basic idea of draining, we hope now you have understood how to drain gas from a riding lawnmower. Lawnmowers tend to give you more life expectancy and greater engine performance if you take good care of them.
Lawnmowers gas draining is an important thing; otherwise, be ready to face inconveniences. The mower will start getting rougher and start missing no matter how many times you change its filter; it will come back to the same. Continue that draining process in practice, and your lawnmower will be good in performance.
