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Might been inside a few small engines.. if anything it's pretty apparent those are low stress affairs and don't require any special oil. I mean they survive with plastic cams..

Growing up, the oil in the mower or rototiller was NEVER changed. Top up as needed, and run it. Never had a failure because of oil.

Not that I'd do that in any of my engines now, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.
 
I haven't owned a Briggs in years and have never seen a Kawi.
I'll stick with Honda. They run forever on just about any oil.
I have a Kawasaki kai fj180v in my Toro Turfmaster 30 " mower pressurised oil system with spin on Wix oil filter . It gets 10w-40 T6 . This was it 5th yr cutting nice unit . 500 hr rated engine .
 
Growing up, the oil in the mower or rototiller was NEVER changed. Top up as needed, and run it. Never had a failure because of oil.

Not that I'd do that in any of my engines now, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.
A lot of old Tecumseh & Clinton , likely still out there running with that interval protocol !
 
Growing up, the oil in the mower or rototiller was NEVER changed. Top up as needed, and run it. Never had a failure because of oil.

Not that I'd do that in any of my engines now, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.
That doesn't supprise me at all. These types of engines usually never accumulate the hours to wear out anyways and as I mentioned are pretty low stress affairs.
 
I live in Montana. I actually was in Wally world yesterday and didn't see one 5w40 or 10w30 diesel oil available. I'm not sure why this is.
I know, same issue here. No Rotella to be had anywhere. Ended up getting delvac for the trucks and tractors. Fully synthetic but still a 15w40 weight. I'm sure it will be fine. Cost a mint though.
Growing up, the oil in the mower or rototiller was NEVER changed. Top up as needed, and run it. Never had a failure because of oil.

Not that I'd do that in any of my engines now, but it didn't seem to hurt anything.
My old man bought a huskee lawnmower from tsc in 1998. Never, ever changed the oil in it. At the time he was mowing close to 3 acres with it weekly. Last year the transmission finally gave out. Took the engine out of it (23hp briggs) and scrapped the rest. Engine still runs fine, I did change the oil and filter, was surprised how nice the oil looked. Dad reminded me it burns a bit of oil, keep it topped off and it will be fine.
 
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