11-10-2010, 02:59 AM
This is my first winter with a boat and I have a 2000 90hp Mercury4 stroke. I plan to use it for the next month or so and then put it away for the winter until March or April. I am not exactly sure what I should be doing with the cold temps coming.
So here are my questions:
1) From what I understand, all I need to do to "winterize" the boat is add stabil/sea foam to a full tank of gas and run through the system, change the lower unit oil, disconnect the gas, run the engine out of gas, and store with the motor down. Is that correct? Is there anything else I should/need to do?
2) If the gas line doesn't disconnect from the engine, how do you run the engine out of gas? Do you even need to run the engine out of gas if you put stabil in the gas?
3) What is fogging the engine? I keep reading about but have no idea what it is?
4) If I fish every week from now until Christmas, what do I need to be doing between every trip or at the end/beginning of every trip?
5) At what low temperature do I need to start worrying about winterizing? 32 degrees or does it have to be much colder?
Thanks.
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So here are my questions:
1) From what I understand, all I need to do to "winterize" the boat is add stabil/sea foam to a full tank of gas and run through the system, change the lower unit oil, disconnect the gas, run the engine out of gas, and store with the motor down. Is that correct? Is there anything else I should/need to do?
2) If the gas line doesn't disconnect from the engine, how do you run the engine out of gas? Do you even need to run the engine out of gas if you put stabil in the gas?
3) What is fogging the engine? I keep reading about but have no idea what it is?
4) If I fish every week from now until Christmas, what do I need to be doing between every trip or at the end/beginning of every trip?
5) At what low temperature do I need to start worrying about winterizing? 32 degrees or does it have to be much colder?
Thanks.
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