I crammed my 19' boat (3.0L alpha) into my enclosed, insulated garage.

Do I need to fully winterize it? The garage stays in the mid-50's
during the winter months. I have a trickle charger to maintain the
battery. I can also pull it out monthly and run it in the driveway at
idle temp.

What do you think?

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I crammed my 19' boat (3.0L alpha) into my enclosed, insulated garage.

Do I need to fully winterize it? The garage stays in the mid-50's
during the winter months. I have a trickle charger to maintain the
battery. I can also pull it out monthly and run it in the driveway at
idle temp.

What do you think?



I don't know where you live, but assuming you get cold, winter type weather,
your best intentions of running the engine once a month may soon be
reconsidered.

One of the advantages of winterizing with anti-freeze is it's anti-corrosion
benefits on the engine internals. If the boat is going to sit all winter
without being used, it's worth
considering.

Eisboch

wrote:
I crammed my 19' boat (3.0L alpha) into my enclosed, insulated garage.

Do I need to fully winterize it? The garage stays in the mid-50's
during the winter months. I have a trickle charger to maintain the
battery. I can also pull it out monthly and run it in the driveway at
idle temp.

What do you think?

I think that if the temp in the garage should for some completely
unpredictable reason reason go to 0, you'll lose your motor. If not,
then no different than summer storage ... my opinion.

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wrote:
I crammed my 19' boat (3.0L alpha) into my enclosed, insulated garage.

Do I need to fully winterize it? The garage stays in the mid-50's
during the winter months. I have a trickle charger to maintain the
battery. I can also pull it out monthly and run it in the driveway at
idle temp.

What do you think?

I think that if the temp in the garage should for some completely
unpredictable reason reason go to 0, you'll lose your motor. If not,
then no different than summer storage ... my opinion.


I think if you loose power during a ice storm or just forget to close the
door after a
night out is not worth the chance of freezing you motor

If you're confident it won't get below freezing you don't have to drain it.
Nothing gained by running it once a month either. It'll take 20 years for a
cast iron block to rust enough to even begin to be an issue.

I'm pretty confident my garage, surrounded on three of five sides by the
house never gets very cold either but I drain my engine anyway. It only
takes about 10 minutes to pull the plugs and disconnect the hose on the
power steering cooler. And 10 minutes in the spring to put it back.

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I crammed my 19' boat (3.0L alpha) into my enclosed, insulated garage.

Do I need to fully winterize it? The garage stays in the mid-50's
during the winter months. I have a trickle charger to maintain the
battery. I can also pull it out monthly and run it in the driveway at
idle temp.

What do you think?