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Bertram31.com General Bulletin Board
Re: Winterize your engines
Posted By: mike ohlstein In Response To: Re: Winterize your engines (toy104@aol.com)
Date: Tuesday, 9 November 2004, at 10:29 a.m.
Fog your engines. It takes ten minutes and costs fifteen bucks. If you get really ambitious, you can drop a teaspoon of Marvel Oil into each cylinder too.
Here in the lower northeast, where the temperatures often fluctuate between freezing and not, and the air is very humid, we get quite a bit of condensation. Water + Iron = Rust
And if you really want to do the job right, change your oil before you lay up for the winter. Condensate in the crank case combines with sulfur in the old oil and forms sulfuric acid. Probably a mild solution, and not so bad if the boat is always moving....but when you're up on the hill and the boat's sitting still, the acid has time to attack specific spots.
Now here's the really stupid part..... Change the oil again when you launch. You don't want watery oil in the engine.....right?
Mike---the overly cautious
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