(NAPSA)—This summer, you can cut your lawn care costs and help improve the environment in 30 min- utes or less just by performing basic lawn mower maintenance. In fact, if all 638 million lawn mower owners in the United States tune-up their mowers this year, everyone will breathea little easier while saving money at the same time. A simple-to-do tune-up cuts lawn mower exhaust emis- rr sions by up to 50 percent and fuel a consumption by up to 30 percent—about two gallons of gas over the mowing the season, according to Briggs & Stratton Corporation, maker of engines for outdoor power equipment. A tune-up will also make your lawn mowerlast longer, help you avoid costly engine repairs and makeit easier to start. Best of all, you don’t have to be a mechanic to get your mower runningat its best. It takes about 30 minutes to do it yourself, or have a lawn mower dealership perform an annual tune-up. There are four simple steps: Changing the oil. This helps keep the engine lubricated and makes sureclean oil is continuously circulated to critical engine parts, reducing friction that can severely damage the engine. Changingtheair filter. A 7 — i wig A lawn mower tune-up Is simple. It takes just 30 minutes and can help avoid expensive repairs later on. particularly on hot days. e Adding fuel stabilizer. Fuel stabilizer improves starting by preventing gasoline from degrading to the point whereit’s no longer capable of combustion. For more information on how to do a tune-up at home, visit www.mowertuneup.com. Briggs & Stratton Tune-Up kits that include everything you need to perform a tune-up—oil, air filter, spark plug and fuel stabilizer— can be purchased at many lawn mower dealerships and major retail outlets. Briggs & Stratton Corporation is clogged air filter reduces the air- the largest manufacturer of small, fuel consumption. A lower ratio also leads to excess gasoline, meaning more toxic exhaust emissions. Replacing the spark plug. backed by an authorized service network of more than 30,000 deal- to-fuel ratio, leading to inefficient A fouled or eroded spark plug provides an inconsistent spark. This wastes fuel and makes starting more difficult—very frustrating, air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment, including lawn mowers, pressure washers and generators. The engines are ers worldwide. Briggs & Stratton engines can be found powering equipment in more than 90 countries on all seven continents.
