This question pertains to a lawn mower engine. Typically Briggs and Stratton recommends using a detergent 30 weight or 10W-30 weight oil in their small, air-cooled, 3.5 HP engines. I have beern using SAE30 detergent oil. Is it for better for the engine if I buy oil specificallty labeled for lawn mower engines (that cost’s more) or automotive engine oil of the same weigh. My thinking is, that perhaps, oil marked for lawn mowers may have more Zinc to protect the engine better. Also my lawn mower burns about an ounce of oil every mowing. Is this about normal for such an engine? Can I use SAE40 weight oil instead to help slow the burning?

Where can one get an oil analysis?

My daughter’s 2006 honda CRV has 45,000 miles. I wanted to keep the nexxt service cost down and do some of the simple things myself. Are the canin air filters and the intake filter easy for a fairly handy person to do? I know where to find the intake filter but how do you replace the cabin filters?

This is not a car question, sorry.

Is it possible that whoever posts the podcasts write a standard mp3 tag. I listen to the podcast every week on my cell phone (G1). The music player does not see any data in the tag other than file name.

Thank you.

My 2003 Dodge Caravan SE 3.3 engine on some morning startups the powersteering gets stuck when turning like it hits a knot or something, very hard to turn wheel then it frees up and drives ok the rest of the day. At first it seem to happen ramdomly on rainy days but now it happens anytime. Any answers