Mower Maintenance - Air and Fuel Filter

Spring is in the Air... Actually had to mow the yard in February this year.

I needed to do some maintenance on the lawn mower to get it ready for this year.

Some of this stuff may seem simple for some people, and I understand that. Once you know this is not hard. You don't know what you don't know.

Today, I changed the Air filter, fuel filter, oil and oil filter on a John Deere LA145 ring lawn mower.

As you can see, it is extremely dirty. Unscrew the 4 attaching screws to the cover. They stay attached to the cover, so once you loosen them, the cover comes off.

Not the dirtiest filter Ive seen, but pretty dirty. The foam piece under was even dirtier. Air flows through it first. The new one comes with a new foam filter as well. Just put them back on in reverse order. If you have any questions just post a comment

Next I replaced the fuel filter. It is located on the left side. It has hoses connected on both sides of it with some compression clamps. In this picture, Ive already used pliers to move the clamps down the hose some. If you have some vise grips you can squeeze the fuel line so that not much fuel leaks out when you pull the lines off the fuel filter. Pull the hoses off. Some will leak out, so do this in a ventilated area.

Old Fuel Filter

Put the new fuel filter in place. The fuel filter has an arrow tells you which way the fuel should flow. You want the arrow pointing to the engine. Fuel flows from the as tank to the engine. Use some pliers and move the clamps back in place.

With New Fuel Filter

I purchased the fuel filter from Was-Mart as well.

If you have any comments or questions please comment. I want to hear from you.

Next up is the oil change, and topping off the water in the battery.