06-25-2017, 01:08 PM
I had a 3 hp Briggs and Stratton minibike when I was ten. The bike ate #35 master links for lunch and it was all I could do to save enough allowance to buy replacements ($1.05 at the motorbike shop down the hill). Mom had to drive me so it was always a big production. She wasn't keen on me having a minibike in the first place.
Anyway, one day I'm at the small engine repair shop with my dad and sitting on the counter is a rack of authentic Briggs and Stratton 30W oil. I had never seen such a thing. $2.40 a quart if I recall, which was a lot of money for a ten year old kid back in 1970. Naturally, I had to have some.
So I bought a can, got home, pushed my minibike out to the curb, drained the crankcase in the gutter, and proceeded to refill it with the authentic nectar from the Mother Company. It was all good until I realized that I forgot to reinstall the drain plug. Lesson learned! From that day forward, I've never made that same mistake. Nor have I ever drained oil in the gutter again!
Anyway, one day I'm at the small engine repair shop with my dad and sitting on the counter is a rack of authentic Briggs and Stratton 30W oil. I had never seen such a thing. $2.40 a quart if I recall, which was a lot of money for a ten year old kid back in 1970. Naturally, I had to have some.
So I bought a can, got home, pushed my minibike out to the curb, drained the crankcase in the gutter, and proceeded to refill it with the authentic nectar from the Mother Company. It was all good until I realized that I forgot to reinstall the drain plug. Lesson learned! From that day forward, I've never made that same mistake. Nor have I ever drained oil in the gutter again!