Greasing The Wheel Bearings; Engine Maintenance; Engine Safety; Servicing The Air Cleaner - Toro 22618 Operator's Manual

Greasing the Wheel
Bearings
Service Interval: Every 500 hours
Grease type: General-purpose grease
1. Remove the rubber plugs from the axle
20).
Figure 20
1. Rubber plug
2. Connect a grease gun to the grease fittings
and pump grease into the fittings on the axle
(Figure 20) and the caster wheels
until grease begins to ooze out of the bearings.
Figure 21
1. Grease fitting
3. Install the rubber plugs
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(Figure 21)
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(Figure 20).

Engine Maintenance

Engine Safety

•
Shut off the engine before checking the oil or
adding oil to the crankcase.
•
Do not change the governor speed or overspeed
the engine.

Servicing the Air Cleaner

Service Interval: Before each use or daily—Inspect
the air-cleaner elements.
Every 50 hours—Clean the air-cleaner
elements. Clean them more frequently in dusty
operating conditions.
Every 300 hours/Yearly (whichever comes
first)—Replace the paper air-cleaner element.
Replace it more frequently in dusty operating
conditions.
Important:
Do not operate the engine without
the air-filter assembly; extreme engine damage
will occur.
1. Shut off the engine and wait for all moving parts
to stop.
2. Disconnect the wire from the spark plug; refer to
Disconnecting the Spark-plug Wire (page
3. Remove the nut that secures the cover
22).
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