What oil TYPE for my Kohler s181 8HP?

It's in my John Deere 110.

And I mean type, not the "W".

Mineral oil?
Pure castor?
Single grade?
Synthetic?
Semi?

Never found any info on this, thanks

Lots of racecars use Synthetic. I jsut buy whatever is on sale at Napa cause I run the same oil in the Jeep.

So you think it won't matter, I'll just get a 5w40 synth then. Thanks

It should't matter.
Im gonna run 5w30 synthetic in mine.

I'm running a surplus 10/w30 that I got for free. Got most of a 5 gallon bucket left.

Its good industrial grade motor oil.

Good, thanks

Oh man, she did'nt like that cheap oil i gave er.
She burped and spewed it all out underside of the hood.
I reckon I try the SAE 30 Oil then, wich I actually have bought, but not changed yet, aaah that couch!

Spewed it out? Is it pressure lube? It shouldnt be doing that.

Doug Fackler wrote:

Spewed it out? Is it pressure lube? It shouldnt be doing that.

Nope, no the filler plug popped out including all the oil. It was crazy.

Is it one of those push plug things or whatever they are, or a legit screw plug?

Doug Fackler wrote:

Is it one of those push plug things or whatever they are, or a legit screw plug?

Abit loose push plug yeah.

Might want to replace it with something else if it pops out that easy.

On the good side, it keeps everything on the outside lubricated. haha

Doug Fackler wrote:

Might want to replace it with something else if it pops out that easy.

On the good side, it keeps everything on the outside lubricated. haha

Nice anti-rust huh I got loads of oil on the muffler as well, smelly.

Thunderdivine wrote:

Nice anti-rust huh I got loads of oil on the muffler as well, smelly.

helps the muffler bearings. lol

cant remember if I posted here or not yet. I generally use synthetic 15w-40 year round, and it seems to work well even in the coldest conditions (albeit a bit hard to get it cranking winter time...)

willis923 wrote:

Thunderdivine wrote:

Nice anti-rust huh I got loads of oil on the muffler as well, smelly.

helps the muffler bearings. lol

Some years ago we sent our driver at work down to the hardware store to get 200 punch marks.

prometheusEDI wrote:

cant remember if I posted here or not yet. I generally use synthetic 15w-40 year round, and it seems to work well even in the coldest conditions (albeit a bit hard to get it cranking winter time...)

Alright might try that if the stubborn ol lady spews out the SAE 30. Tho I guess it might be just the flimsy oil cap.

cant hurt. had a k301s in my Simplicity 7012 for a long time, in fact 2 over time - the first was poorly maintained when I got it, and it still ran, just leaked everywhere... and the second was a factory fresh NOS engine a guy near me traded to me for a suzuki 80cc 2 stroke motor. Always ran 15-40 in it, 90% of the time synthetic... it never failed me.

Can it be a glogged up breather?

Doug: I did what you asked. Filmed it.... You know what always happens when you gonna show something.. Yes! It didn't happen! lol



And I swear I filmed this my normal way aka horizontal but it showed up like this...