Alternative winterizing

I have always sucked antifreeze from a bucket to winterize. I first run it off the fake-a-lake till it warms up. Take a bucket with 2 gallons of antifreeze and put it next to the RWP and unhook the intake hose and slide a 4 foot hose on and stick it in the bucket. I have 2 large buckets under each exhaust. I use plain antifreeze because it will mix with the water already in the block. I catch and recycle the antifreeze over and over until it becomes warm. I check the freezing point of what comes out. Then I remove a hose on the intake and circ pump and check the freezing point. And I blow out the water and add antifreeze in the tranny cooler plumbing. I remove the belt on the RWP so I can crank it about once a month and let it run for 10 or 15 seconds. I don't bother with fogging and I put stabil in the tank.

Kristof wrote: and a mechanic friend told me that if I had the opportunity of storing the engine inside, the best thing to do is letting the engine run for 15 minutes to a half hour every two weeks.

I wouldn't think running the engine for that short a time would get everything up to temperature. I'd be concerned about condensation in the oil in particular.

If you dont let it heat up fully, You have a risk of blowing the head gasket.

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74SkiNautique wrote: My Uncle's Dodge Durango Blew a head gasket, His wife would take the boys to school in the winter, it was only like 1 mile away. Everyday she did this, and a week later the head gasket blew.

Chris,
Please don't take this comment as me picking on to in any way - I'm just disagreeing with your theory.

Your uncles Durango blew a head gasket but was it from not being warmed up completely? No one really knows!! Think about the thousands of short trips people do every single day in their cars. We don't have thousands of blown head gaskets!!

74SkiNautique wrote: I said If you repeat this. ONe time aint gonna do it.

Chris,
Please read what I said. I'll leave it with this. Here it is again:
"Think about the thousands of short trips people do every single day in their cars"

yes it does. That would be cool.

Winter is half way over, I guess it is time to winterize.



This is just a piece of vinyl tubing (1" ??) where I hook up the garden hose to run it on the trailer. 1' of hose and 2 hose clamps is pretty cheap.