Spray a few squirts of WD-40 into the spark plug hole, replace the plug with a new one
Clean or replace the carb air filter
Wash it to get it clean, and make sure all grass and thatch is cleaned out from under the deck
Oil/grease wheels
By doing all this, the mower is SET TO GO next Spring by simply adding gas and starting it. No muss, no fuss.
Luckily, this year, my float stuck and I got a tiny bit of gas into my crankcase from carb unrestricted flow on the last mowing. This really cleaned out the crankcase - by accident. So I put in new oil, ran it for 10 minutes till dry stall, then changed the oil again to make sure all gas was out of the oil.
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Flintmotorsports
So I got a small engine shop and this is what I tell my customers
Clean the deck top and bottom and clean the bagger and such
then Fill the fuel tank, Put Star tron Fuel treatment in the tank Then run it for 5-10 Min
and Service the equipment in the spring due to the heating and cooling from the fall season- Spring the
Temp swings to much so it creates so much moisture