Re: getting ready for winter
We don?t have near the cold weather you folks in VA have and if it gets cold enough to freeze an engine, we prefer a warm fire and two fingers of a good pusser's rum. However, we have seen a couple of ways to keep the engine safe. (The assumption is yours is not a closed cooling system, in which one could simply add antifreeze.) One method we have seen involves installing an inline thermo-heater in the cooling systems that uses a simple 110v power supply. Another more basic approach is to place a light in the engine well, usually a 100w, to generate heat. The same fellow that uses the light in the engine also places a lamp with a reflective shade placed close to the outdrive to keep it warm. As the saying goes ? ?Necessity is the mother of invention?!!
