[alberg30] Winterizing A-4 and othe rthings.

[Scott Wallace]

From:	Scott Wallace <tristan at one.net>

Gordon's point about the automatic shut-off is quite important!  Our friend,TOm
Church, captain of Nor'Wester an Alden schooner 38 LOD, out of Milwaukee, once
left the charger on for a long time and it didn't shut off!  The batteries emited
a gas that turned all of his beautiful bronze ports an ugly gunmetal grey and the
schooner had a nasty metallic smell for a few days!

Scott Wallace

Gordon White wrote:

> From: Gordon White <gewhite at crosslink.net>
>
>    I might add to Bob Kirk's observations that if left in the water (as I do)
> you can fill the raw water system with antifreeze in the same way as he
> describes, just close the intake seacock, pull off the hose, stick it in a
> bucket of mixed antifreeze solution (50-50 mix), run the engine until it spits
> antifreeze out the exhaust, then shut it off and re-attach the hoses. I
> occasionally drain & re-fill the antifreeze coolant in the fresh water heat
> exchange system in my diesel.
>     You can, if you wish, slack off the fan belt tension for the winter, too.
>     I have a battery charger with a cutoff (so it does not continue to charge
> once the batteries are "full") that I leave on the batteries. I have recently
> found a small (cheaper) version of this charger that stays attached to the
> battery and will give it a 1 1/5 amp charge until the voltage reaches something
> like 13.5 volts, then shuts off. I am going to use this one this winter.  It is
> about the size of a pack of English cigarettes. It gives the batteries a lot
> more life than letting them slowly discharge over the winter in freezing
> weather. I just put one on my brother's jeep that we winterized up at his cabin
> in northern Michigan.
>     WalMart has these for $24.95. He bought one at CarQuest for $54 and I
> priced one at Yates at $75, so there is a wide price range for essentially the
> same the same thing.
>     I put StaBil in the fuel tanks and fill them up.
>                         - Gordon White
>
> 

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