Toro Recycler Blowing White Smoke and Leaking Oil

Yah, tipping the mower started it all, it takes a long time to burn all of that oil off, and you probably ruined the air filter as well. Might as well get a new blade, or sharpen the old one...

So you might as well chalk this up as a good thing, as the engine needs taken care of anyway.

Drain the oil and gas and dispose of legally. Remove the air filter and clean the area totally. Go to town and buy some new 30 weight oil, a new filter, and plug. Put in @ 20 ozs. or so of the oil in, and the new plug, and let sit for a bit with the dipstick out. Come back, and install the dipstick and check the oil. If it is full, install the dipstick and plug, put in some fresh gas, but leave the air filter off for now. Take to the side of
the yard next to the neighbors you don't really like, and start the mower. Let it run and smoke like hell for a few minutes, then shut off, and
recheck your oil level after a bit, fill as needed.

Then restart and run until it stops smoking, then reassemble.

Fish said:

Take to the side of
the yard next to the neighbors you don't really like, and start the mower. Let it run and smoke like hell for a few minutes, then shut off, and
recheck your oil level after a bit, fill as needed.

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The most important step.

I will do what you suggeseted and report back.

Be careful getting out wet grass. My neighbor has some very sore taped up fingers from that a week ago. Some how the blade spun enough to cut his fingers. The blade was very dull or it would have been worse.

I use gloves when getting out the wet grass.

Changing oil on this Toro is PIA!

A tip for changing oil. Take a pan, we use the type that are used in hospitals, tip the warmed up engine on it's side and drain the oil out the fill tube. Very easy, simple and quick.

The first time I used the fill tube to drain oil was last year. I hated it. Thought was stupid , hard, messy. Then I found an old shallow cake pan, and tried to have a good time whether I liked it or not. I like it now, fast, no mess, no tools, just tip it and get it over with. I still feel a bit like an idiot when doing it though.

I changed it from the bottom. It is doable but a bit difficult to get the lawnmower up.

The Toro is working now. New oil in, changed the spark plug, and put in a new air filter. I let it run for awhile and the smoking stopped eventually. I also added Seafoam to the gas tank which seemed to help.