The oil filter quagmire

put "genuine kawasaki" in quotes ...

A mower engine with a filter? It must be a fairly “high end” one then. ;-). Given that most don’t have a filter or oil pump, is it worth worrying about too much? My old B&S mower soldiers on despite having seized once due to lack of oil.

Tim

My B&S mower engine failed to seize despite the oil being completely below the dipstick! Sadly, I have one mower with a B&S engine (which uses a horrible diaphragm fuel pump and an unstable speed regulator) but a very good quality Hayter body and another with an excellent Honda 4.5 engine with gravity fuel feed on a Mountfield body that is rusting away. I wonder whether the engine mountings are compatible so that I could make one really good mower?

John

I doubt if many cars are fitted with genuine oil filters unless serviced at the dealer. I also doubt if Kawasaki actually make oil filters.

There's one way to find out... Let us know ho it goes! A Haytey/Honda?

I have a self-propelled Hayter mower, but it used to be used by a gardener who had lost his right arm on the Burma Railway, so the throttle control was modified for or by him. Now it's 'fail-unsafe', if you let everything go, it takes off down the garden on its own.

If only. Amazon and Ebay will throw up lost of nonsense regardless of what you ask for, though it is possible, if tedious, to fine tune a Google search

I'd be inclined to ask Kawaski for recommendations

Yes, I usually use google to search amazon and ebay, rather than their own search engines.

My mowers are 20 and 35 years old and Ive never changed a filter or the oil

If is in fact FAR easier to fine tune an ebay search than a google search because ebay does allow wildcards and google doesn't.

And aliexpress is even worse than amazon and both are far worse than ebay.