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Re: [FOT] winter storage

To: "Craig Wensley" <wensley@adelphia.net>
Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage
From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:38:37 -0700
If you mean the Atomic 4, then you are about right.  Those engines were not
much that a good healthy rubber band couldn't duplicate.
Never Be beaten by Equipment
Kas Kastner
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Craig Wensley
  To: Kas Kastner
  Cc: Gary Schneider ; fot@autox.team.net
  Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [FOT] winter storage


  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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