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Old 03-21-2023, 07:51 AM
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Check your owner's manual and you will find it recommends 10W-30 oil with an ancient API rating. Some of the newer carts may recommend 10W-40. Any contemporary oil (typically API SN or better) will be fine; you don't need to buy the oil from the Villages Golf Cart store. If your owners’s manual recommends 10W-30 you can also use 0W-30 or 5W-30. Buy what is on sale at WallyWorld. I generally buy Mobil 1 in 5 quart containers when Mobil offers a rebate. Regarding the drain plug washer, you don't need to replace it every oil change - they last a long time without leaking.

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Originally Posted by mike234 View Post
I go to village golf cart store. get the oil and the small metal gasket that you replace when you drain the oil out...why are people sucking the oil out? when you take that the plug out, the oil will drain, and you will see what I mean about the gasket.....they know what you what when you ask for the little gasket... and observe which way the gasket goes back on.

Last edited by tuccillo; 03-21-2023 at 08:43 AM.