HARRY - Like WES says, I always put 1-1/2 quarts, 3 pints of oil in my K241, 20 years & 1480 hours later and no problems. My K241 had the normal flat bottom pan, as it will when it gets rebuilt to start it's 3rd life this summer. My dipstick on that K241 was probably more FuBar'd than Don's K301 was/is, had a rubber stopper forced up into the top cap that sealed the oil fill tube, no o-ring, but it sealed good so I ran it.
I'm pretty fussy about running air-cooled engines with less than the recommended amount of oil, a low oil level in a splash lubricated engine means less oil in the pan to be recirculated, starves the rod bearing of oil, the bearing over-heats, metal from the rod bonds to the crankshaft creating more heat, the rod siezes to the crankshaft and you end up with a broken rod and maybe a window in the block. That K241 was the engine I had in the #72 back around 2003 when I ran the lawn vac from about Noon Friday, maybe 1 PM until 2 AM the following morning NON-STOP. I forget how many tanks of gas I put thru the CC & lawn vac, I know I was on my 2nd 5 gal can when I got done. I took Saturday off, rewired my headlights, the old switch burned up, but Sunday I hooked the 72 to the areator and went over my 2-1/2 acres TWICE. I put 25 hours on the 72 that weekend.
And my old friends at HARVESTER PRESS in Westmont, IL wouldn't make a mistake on something as important as engine oil capacity in a CC Operator's manual.
I'm pretty fussy about running air-cooled engines with less than the recommended amount of oil, a low oil level in a splash lubricated engine means less oil in the pan to be recirculated, starves the rod bearing of oil, the bearing over-heats, metal from the rod bonds to the crankshaft creating more heat, the rod siezes to the crankshaft and you end up with a broken rod and maybe a window in the block. That K241 was the engine I had in the #72 back around 2003 when I ran the lawn vac from about Noon Friday, maybe 1 PM until 2 AM the following morning NON-STOP. I forget how many tanks of gas I put thru the CC & lawn vac, I know I was on my 2nd 5 gal can when I got done. I took Saturday off, rewired my headlights, the old switch burned up, but Sunday I hooked the 72 to the areator and went over my 2-1/2 acres TWICE. I put 25 hours on the 72 that weekend.
And my old friends at HARVESTER PRESS in Westmont, IL wouldn't make a mistake on something as important as engine oil capacity in a CC Operator's manual.