Cusefan78
09-29-2014, 03:19 PM
Sadly after a great weekend of skiing with my friends on the lake I pulled my supra out this morning and winterized it. Couldn't ask for a better weekend. The lake was glass for 4 straight days, 85 degrees and sunny. I couldn't ask for a better end of my boating season. between my cottage and two others we had 29 guys all skiers. Ran my supra and two mastercrafts hard. What a blast. Unfortunately the beer kicked in so no pics.
Back to winterizing. Did it a little different this year. Changed the oil, drained all the water then i drilled a hole in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. Installed a barb fitting disconnected the hose in front of the strainer and attached a hose from the bucket to where the strainer feed hose was. Filled the bucket with rv antifreeze and turned on the boat. Ran it till all the fluid was gone and antifreeze ran out of the exhaust. Checked the manifolds and they are filled with antifreeze. Then I fogged the cylinders bumped the key a few times to coat the walls. Installed the spark plugs. Lastly i pulled the impeller and the batteries. Before I cover it for the year I'm going to tape up the exhaust flaps and let the boat dry completely. I order a dr skrink propane gun and am going to shrink wrap it in a few weeks. Spoke with a guy from dr shrink. Going to install 4 vents and add some of those things to suck in any moisture. Lastly will add bounce sheets to make sure no mice find a home.
If any one is interested. There are plugs on the back of both manifolds. One plug on each side of the block, one plug on the j pipe next to the impeller and a drain plug on the tranny cooler. This is for a 5.8 pcm.
Back to winterizing. Did it a little different this year. Changed the oil, drained all the water then i drilled a hole in the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket. Installed a barb fitting disconnected the hose in front of the strainer and attached a hose from the bucket to where the strainer feed hose was. Filled the bucket with rv antifreeze and turned on the boat. Ran it till all the fluid was gone and antifreeze ran out of the exhaust. Checked the manifolds and they are filled with antifreeze. Then I fogged the cylinders bumped the key a few times to coat the walls. Installed the spark plugs. Lastly i pulled the impeller and the batteries. Before I cover it for the year I'm going to tape up the exhaust flaps and let the boat dry completely. I order a dr skrink propane gun and am going to shrink wrap it in a few weeks. Spoke with a guy from dr shrink. Going to install 4 vents and add some of those things to suck in any moisture. Lastly will add bounce sheets to make sure no mice find a home.
If any one is interested. There are plugs on the back of both manifolds. One plug on each side of the block, one plug on the j pipe next to the impeller and a drain plug on the tranny cooler. This is for a 5.8 pcm.