Changing Engine Oil - Briggs & Stratton 30325 Operator's Manual

To service the air cleaner, follow these steps:
1. Loosen screws and remove air cleaner cover. Remove
paper filter (Figure 12).
Figure 12 - Air Cleaner
Cartridge
Cover
Screw
2. Install clean (or new) air cleaner assembly inside cover.
Dispose of old filter properly.
3. Assemble air cleaner cover onto base and tighten
screws.

Changing Engine Oil

Change the oil after the first 5 hours of operation. Change
oil every 50 hours thereafter. If you are using your
generator under extremely dirty or dusty conditions, or in
extremely hot weather, change the oil more often.
CAUTION
Avoid prolonged or repeated skin contact with used
motor oil.
• Used motor oil has been shown to cause skin cancer in
certain laboratory animals.
• Thoroughly wash exposed areas with soap and water.
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN. DON'T
POLLUTE. CONSERVE RESOURCES. RETURN
USED OIL TO COLLECTION CENTERS.
Change the oil while the engine is still warm from running,
as follows:
1. Make sure unit is on a level surface.
2. Disconnect the spark plug wire from the spark plug
and place the wire where it cannot contact spark plug.
MAINTENANCE
3. Clean area around oil drain plug.The oil drain plug is
located at base of engine, opposite carburetor.
4. Remove oil drain plug and drain oil completely into a
suitable container.
5. Reinstall oil drain plug and tighten securely. Remove oil
fill cap.
6. Slowly pour oil (about 28 oz.) into oil fill opening to
the point of overflowing at oil fill cap. DO NOT
overfill.
7. Reinstall oil fill cap. Finger tighten cap securely.
8. Wipe up any spilled oil.
Servicing Spark Arrester
The engine exhaust muffler has a spark arrester screen.
Base
Inspect and clean the screen every 50 hours of operation
or once each year, whichever comes first.
If you use your generator on any forest-covered, brush-
covered, or grass-covered unimproved land, it must have a
spark arrester.The spark arrester must be maintained in
good condition by the owner/operator.
Running engines produce heat.Temperature of
muffler and nearby areas can reach or exceed
150°F (65°C).
Severe burns can occur on contact.
Exhaust heat/gases can ignite combustibles,
structures or damage fuel tank causing a fire.
• DO NOT touch hot surfaces and avoid hot exhaust gases.
• Allow equipment to cool before touching.
• Keep at least 5 ft. (152 cm) clearance on all sides of generator
including overhead.
• Code of Federal Regulation (CFR) Title 36 Parks, Forests, and
Public Property require equipment powered by an internal
combustion engine to have a spark arrester, maintained in
effective working order, complying to USDA Forest service
standard 5100-1C or later revision. In the State of California a
spark arrester is required under section 4442 of the California
Public resources code. Other states may have similar laws.
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