winterizing with the engine out

[ksarge91]

My engine's in my garage which probably never gets below freezing but I'm sure it gets close. There's no insulation on 2 sides of the garage but I'm in there for an hour or so each day with the heater on.

What should I do to the engine over the winter. Just pull the plugs and fog it and turn it over by hand a couple times? Then throw a couple heavy blankets over it maybe?

Really don't think it will get below freezing in there but in Pennsylvania you never know

 

[Maxumflux]

fogging it couldn't hurt. the main reason you winterize your engine is to make sure water doesn't sit in the cylinders and freeze/crack your cylinders. i just pull the cooling line and suck the water out that way then fill the cylinders with antifreez or cheap gas. don't forget to let it all out befor you run your engine though or else you will have an oil spill on the lake... just my $0.02

 

[BruceSki]

use the air compressor and blast out the cooling passage.

when we winterize here we fill an old metal fire extinguisher with non tox and blast it backwards through the pissers till the pink stuff comes out the pump.

you can safely run coolant through the cylinder as long as its a seperate system from the pipe if you want to run some non tox through the motor while its not running.

i would just fog the crap out of it and not worry about it. i have not non-toxed skis years ago because i was young and didn't know any better and they made it through a long island winter with a frozen salt water canal. i guess i blew all the water out of them while fogging out though.

 

[shawn_NJ]

Past 2 years I rode every month except feb and never put antifreeze or anything on my main ski. It was too cold to flush the motor after rides cuz my house's hose was frozen. All I did was brap it out real good a few times, and start it up every 2-3 weeks. It really was the torture test for the motor and it passed. I fogged it last day of daytona and it started right up when we went riding in march. If you are worried blast cooling passages with compressed air and your be fine.

I did have a reoccuring problem with water freezing in my throttle and steering cable.