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Winterising outboards
I will be really radical here - and post something related to boats.
I have a 200hp Suzuki outboard, bought boat & engine off a friend. Last year I winterised, thoroughlly run in fresh water (muffs) and emptied a can of engine fogger into the air intake it while running. Good spray of WD40 over all mech parts under the cover. Talking to my mate - he advised he had never done that when he owned it - just started it once a month, and that was enough. Be interested in views on this ... maybe running it up to warm once a month may be better. |
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Winterising outboards
I run mine once a month also... easier than winterizing... and I can still
use my boat on a hot winter day. -W "Osprey" wrote in message oups.com... I will be really radical here - and post something related to boats. I have a 200hp Suzuki outboard, bought boat & engine off a friend. Last year I winterised, thoroughlly run in fresh water (muffs) and emptied a can of engine fogger into the air intake it while running. Good spray of WD40 over all mech parts under the cover. Talking to my mate - he advised he had never done that when he owned it - just started it once a month, and that was enough. Be interested in views on this ... maybe running it up to warm once a month may be better. |
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"Osprey" wrote in
oups.com: Talking to my mate - he advised he had never done that when he owned it - just started it once a month, and that was enough. Be interested in views on this ... maybe running it up to warm once a month may be better. I wouldn't run it until Spring at all. If you start it without cooling water, it'll tear up the pump impeller running it dry against its housing. If you run it in cooling water, that'll freeze before you can get it to drain, taking a chance of frozen water doing internal damage in the already-frigid weather. If it's fogged, leave it fogged until you can use it again....NO sense tearing up the pump impeller burning it against dry parts. You might feel better if you just hand turn it over to move the pistons would be ok, I suppose....(c; I wouldn't crank the starter. What kind of gas tank is in it, metal or plastic? A full metal tank doesn't breathe and doesn't leak out the smaller molecules in the gas that make its octane high. A plastic tank, even a full one, always smells like leaking gas because it IS leaking gas, the light molecules leaking through the large molecules of polyethelene...making "bad gas" by spring, or at least gas with reduced octane...to make knock which isn't good. I saw one of those old pulse-pressurized red Evinrude 6-gallon gas tanks on a shelf at a thrift shop, today. The perfect fuel tank for a small outboard and they DUMPED IT! It was made to operate under pressure, SEALED against the breathing in water vapor and breathing out light fuel molecules. Its heavy metal tank didn't seep light molecules through its solid metal can. Even half full, tightly closed under pressure that was always there until you opened its filler cap, gas never went bad from the breathing they all do, now. How stupid to change something that worked so well just to save the manufacturers a few dollars per unit with that crap tank CG let's 'em use, now.... Larry -- My calendar must be wrong.... In all the stores, it's ALREADY Christmas! |
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"Larry" wrote in message I wouldn't run it until Spring at all. If you start it without cooling water, it'll tear up the pump impeller running it dry against its housing. If you run it in cooling water, that'll freeze before you can get it to drain, taking a chance of frozen water doing internal damage in the already-frigid weather. I think the advice to run it is climate dependant. That said.. once an outboard block is warmed up, it'll always drain out before anything can possibly freeze. -W |
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