Pescadora
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Oct 25, 2006
- Messages
- 37
In my diesel days the process was to add some biocide, fill the tank completely and put her away. Michigan winters are long...but they don't hold much on those in Montana.
Now it's gasoline...and a 54 gallon tank. I reckon there's no need to worry about fungus growning in the fuel, but I still believe a full tank is better than letting moisture accumulate when any air in the tank contracts and expands with day/night temperature variations. In winters up here that can be -40 at night to +20 in the day. Can be...not often, but it happens.
And then there's the injectors and pumps. Seems to me, it might be better to leave them loaded. Drain and clean the water separator, maybe a new fuel filter. Dose it up with stabilizer and run her out on the lake one more time (to move stabilized fuel throughout the system). And top off that tank.
Wrap it and wait for spring.
Good enough??? or am I missing something.
Now it's gasoline...and a 54 gallon tank. I reckon there's no need to worry about fungus growning in the fuel, but I still believe a full tank is better than letting moisture accumulate when any air in the tank contracts and expands with day/night temperature variations. In winters up here that can be -40 at night to +20 in the day. Can be...not often, but it happens.
And then there's the injectors and pumps. Seems to me, it might be better to leave them loaded. Drain and clean the water separator, maybe a new fuel filter. Dose it up with stabilizer and run her out on the lake one more time (to move stabilized fuel throughout the system). And top off that tank.
Wrap it and wait for spring.
Good enough??? or am I missing something.