I do the same as Dwight for both the engine antifreeze and the batteries.
Last Fall, the boat next to me in the yard did it a slightly different
way but needed two people.....one guy stayed in the cockpit to
/start/stop the engine while the other guy crawled into the locker and
poured the 50/50 % antifreeze directly into the raw water strainer.
What I did not like about this method is that there was no flush with
fresh water.
Bob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2012/10/19 12:27 PM, dwight veinot wrote:
I believe it is a good idea to flush the engine with fresh water until
it comes to normal operating temperature before adding the antifreeze
mix...I use Prestone concentrate diluted 50/50 and one 4 L container
of Prestone does 2 years and I have enough to pour some into my
electric marine toilet and that keeps it happy all winter. I find it
easier to disconnect the inlet hose at the pump and attach another
hose which I had made up and carry specifically for winterizing and
that hose goes into a bucket supplied with fresh water, sometimes
that's how I empty my potable water tanks and I keep it supplied while
the engine is running. After flushing stop the engine, put your
antfreeze mix in the bucket, go to the consol, start the engine and
watch for the coloured stuff to come out the exhaust. Give it 5 or 10
seconds and stop. I leave the hose attached all winter and held with
the open end high and some antifreeze mix in that part of the hose.
I'll be needing the hose again in spring to start up and flush with
fresh water while I am doing my prelaunch checks so it might as well
stay connected. No need to waste antifreeze by pumping it for a long
time through the system and out...it's toxic stuff so try to contain
it, probably some yards require that.
One other thing to attend to is your batteries. This is what I do and
I leave my batteries on board all winter long here in Nova Scotia
where we can have some long cold spells, below -10C for example and
some winters to -20C so don't plan to move here.
Check the fluid level in each cell, make sure it is above the plates
and if not top up with distilled water, do not tap use water. Fully
charge the batteries with a small automotive charger...a 2 amp charge
for 24 hours should be adequate.
Disconnect the positive cable and wait until spring. If your
batteries don't survive the winter holding charge you probably needed
to replace it anyway because it would not have been a reliable battery.
Dwight Veinot
C&C 35 MKII, Alianna
Head of St. Margaret's Bay, NS
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*Pat Nevitt
*Sent:* October 19, 2012 12:08 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Stus-List Winterizing a 2GM20F
Sebastien,
I have the same engine, and here are the steps I was taught:
* Purchase 1 gallons of "pink" (general with no corrosion
inhibitors) and one gallon of "blue or purple" anti freeze with
corrosion inhibitors.
* Find the "winterizing hose" and have it ready.
* Close the raw water thru hull in the engine compartment, and
loosen the clamps on the hose at the thru hull.
* Remove the hose from the thru hull barb. Attach the "winterizing
hose", on the barb and place the other end in a 2 gallon bucket.
* Pour 1 gallon of pink antifreeze into the bucket. Have ready the
blue or purple.
* Start the engine, and monitor the antifreeze level in the bucket.
* Right when it is about to get to the bottom, add the entire gallon
of blue or purple into the bucket.
* Allow the engine to digest all of it to the bottom of the bucket,
and right before sucking air, shut down the engine.
* Replace the hoses and re-tighten the hose clamps.
I have someone else run the engine while I do the hose/bucket part. It
takes about a minute to run the stuff out of the bucket. It isn't
very fast.
Pat
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Sébastien Lemieux
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I'll be winterizing my 2GM20F for the first time tomorrow (saturday)
and would like some advices on the practical way to fill up the raw
water circuit with antifreeze. I plan on detaching the intake tube of
the raw water circuit from the seacock and putting it in a bucket
filled with antifreeze (I'm aiming for 2 gallons, is that enough?).
Then, I assume I need to start up the engine and wait until
antifreeze comes out from the exhaust thruhull.
Should I just crank up the engine (with decompression lever open)? If
I need to start the engine, how long should I expect to it? Do you
leave the tube in the bucket unattended while you stand near the
control panel to stop the engine?
Thanks in advance!
Sébastien Lemieux
Merlot X - C&C 30 mk2 1987
Mooney Bay - Lake Champlain
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