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I've got a Honda 90 and have been winterizing it here in Minnesota since
1998 and it's still alive. A great engine, I might add. Charge up the batteries. Put fuel stabilizer in the gas and mix it up. Put the muffs and water hose on it, turn on the water and run the motor till it's good and warm. (Make sure water is running out the "pee" hole while this is happening.) Drain the oil from the engine by removing the cover plate and the plug on the starboard side. Drain the oil from the lower unit by removing the plugs on the top and bottom (Inspect the oil; if it's milky, see your dealer). Replace the oil filter (kind of a messy job; put a bunch of paper towels below it and handle with a Ziplock bag). Refill the engine oil with a good grade of 10-30W. Replace the lower unit grease with the GL-5 80-90W gear oil from the bottom plug till it comes out the top plug. Put in the top plug, then the bottom. Take off the prop, lube the shaft with light oil and put it back on. Put the muffs back on and turn on the water again. Start engine and run enough to distribute the new oil through engine. Check engine oil level and adjust as needed. (This is the last adjustment I have ever made to the oil level in this engine.) Idle it down and squirt fogger into air intake till engine stalls. Turn off water, take off the muffs and spin engine over just enough to get water out of water pump. (Some people now pull the plugs and squirt fogger into individual cylinders, but I don't) Make sure the motor is in a vertical position so all the water drains out. Put 600 milliamp trickle charger/maintainer on batteries, plug in and you're done. (Some people take out the batteries and take them to bed with them to keep them warm all winter, but I don't. It only gets down to -35 here.) Email me with questions. If you are lazy, the only thing that is absolutely essential in a freezing climate is that you make sure the motor is in a vertical position so all the water drains out of the cooling system. Otherwise you can buy a new engine in the spring. |
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