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Re: [FOT] winter storage

To: Kas Kastner <kaskas@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage
From: Craig Wensley <wensley@adelphia.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:16:16 -0400
Kas
it sounds like your working atom 4
Craig

Kastner wrote:

>Drain everything, pat in on the hood and wish it well. In the Spring, on first
>fire up, run for ten or fifteen minutes, get it good and warm, then drain,
>refill, and it's over with.
>
>Never Be beaten by Equipment
>Kas Kastner
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Gary Schneider
>  To: fot@autox.team.net
>  Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:36 PM
>  Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage
>
>
>  I just drain the system and try to blow it dry reasonably well. Most race
>organizations require water only and you can't just get rid of the anti-freeze
>smell in the spring. If you travel to races where you are not known, tech
>inspectors like to hassle you over it. I used to use anti-freeze but just got
>tired of the endless flushing.
>
>  With so little humidity in winter I would think the corrosion issue in a dry
>block and rad must be small.
>
>  Gary Schneider
>  '62 wh EP TR4
>
>
>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: Jack W. Drews <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
>  To: fot@autox.team.net
>  Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:19:16 AM
>  Subject: [FOT] winter storage
>
>
>  I have an aluminum radiator and a cast iron block, of course. Looking
>  at all the stuff that happens inside there over the winter, I suspect
>  that galvanic action is alive and well through the winter. In the
>  past few years, I've put antifreeze in it for freeze protection and
>  to prevent corrosion.
>
>  What's the collective wisdom -- is it better to fill it with anti
>  freeze or just drain it all?
>
>  uncle jack
>
>
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