Date:         Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:06:21 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Don Spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Storing Van outside over winter???
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Change the oil and filter, check the antifreeze, pump up the tires to
prevent flat spotting (check pressure in the spring), charge and
disconnect the battery, once a month go out and "exercise" the brake
and clutch pedal.
Leave note on the dash saying what you've done.

In the spring, if you want to be really fastidious, charge the battery,
pull and ground the plugs, squirt some oil in, crank it over until you
have oil pressure, re-install the plugs and start it up.  It's better,
IMHO, to crank a dry engine without compression pressures on the dry
bearings until you get some oil circulating.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2005, at 09:26  AM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

>> Hi gang,
>> I'm thinking of storing BlueBelle (84 Westy) until it's time to go to
>> Florida nest March. She'll have to stay outside in my driveway. What
>> should
>> I do to ensure that she'll be rady to go in the spring??
>> Thanks,
>> Doug