Clean Air Intake/Cooling Areas; Air Filter; Engine Oil Filter; Muffler - Craftsman 917.273011 Owner's Manual

20.0 hp electric start 6 speed garden tractor
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CLEAN AIR INTAKE/COOLINGAREAS
To insure proper cooling, make sure the
grass screen, cooling fins, and other
external surfaces of the engine are kept
clean at all times.
Every 100 hours of operation (more often
under extremelydusty, dirty conditions),
removethe blower housing and other
cooling shrouds. Clean the cooling fins
and external surfaces as necessary.Make
sure the cooling shrouds are reinstalled.
NOTE: Operating the engine with a
blocked grass screen, dirty or plugged
cooling fins, and/or cooling shrouds re-
moved will cause engine damage due to
overheating.
AIR FILTER
Your engine will not run properly using a
dirty airfilter,
_€lean the foam pre-cleaner
after every 25 hours of operation or every
season.
Service paper cartridge every
100 hours of operation or every season,
whichever occurs first.
Service air cleaner more often under dusty
conditions.
• Loosen knob and remove cover.
TO SERVICE PRE-CLEANER
• Slide foam pre-cleaner off cartridge.
• Wash it in liquid detergent and water.
• Squeeze it dry in a clean cloth. Allow it
todry.
• Saturate it in engine oil. Wrap it in
clean, absorbent cloth and squeeze to
-remove excess oil.
TO SERVICE
CARTRIDGE
• Replace a dirty, bent, or damaged car-
tridge.
Cartridge
Foam
Pre-cleaner
Cartridge
Plate
Rubber
Seal
NOTE:
Do not wash the paper cartridge
or use pressurized air, as this will damage
the cartridge.
• Remove nut and cartridge plate.
• Reinstall the pre-cleaner (cleaned and
oiled) over the paper cartridge.
• Check rubber seal for damage and
proper position around stud. Replace if
necessary.
• Reassemble air cleaner, cartridge plate,
and nut.
• Reinstall air cleaner cover and secure
by tightening knob.
ENGINE OIL FILTER
Replace the engine oil filterevery season
or with every second oil change if the trac-
tor is used more than 100 hours in one
year.
MUFFLER
Inspect and replace corroded muffler and
spark arrester (if equipped) as it could cre-
ate a fire hazard and/or damage.
SPARK PLUGS
Replace spark plugs at the beginning of
each mowing season or after every 100
hours of operation,whichever occurs first.
Spark plug type and gap settingare
shown in =PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS"
on page 5 of this manual.
IN-LINE FUEL FILTER
The fuel filter shouldbe replaced once
each season. If fuel filter becomes
clogged, obstructingfuel flow to carbure-
tor, replacement is required.
• With engine cool, remove filter and plug
fuel line sections.
• Place new fuel filter in positionin fuel
line with arrow pointingtowards carbu-
retor.
• Be sure there are no fuel line leaks and
clamps are pl'_perlypositioned.
Clamp
Filter
Knob
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