Old Toro from Grandfather

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My Grandfather recently passed. I got his old (~20 years old) Toro 210-H.

He took great care of it, but toward the end, he didn't mow himself, so it sat for the last 2 years. I'm starting to clean it up but I've run into a question.

Beneath the seat is some type of fluid reservoir. What goes in there?

Now depending on whom I ask, I've been told that it's SAE-30 oil for mixing with the gasoline for the engine, I've been told that it's oil, but for the transmission - so it's a different type, and I've been told that it's transmission fluid for the hydrostatic.

Would anyone be able to give me some insight? I don't want to ruin it by putting the wrong thing in there.

My grandfather talked about how reliable this mower was and I'd love to resurrect it.

Thanks for your help.

 

[CJH]

Reservoir is for the transmission fluid. Per the Wheel Horse spec, SAE 30 oil. Many have used 10W-30 or 10W-40 with success.

Get the model & serial numbers to look up all parts diagrams, manuals & a variety of other documents from the Toro website:

https://lookup3.toro.com/partdex/index.cfm?xCaller=Toro

There is a very good website specifically for Wheel Horses with tremendous amounts of information:

RedSquare

 

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That's great! Thanks for the info and the resource.

I'll get this cleaned up and running and I'll try to post a picture.

Thanks again.