Winter Storage
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From: Marengo, Ia
Heat doesn't displace moisture it absorbs it. Adding Heat to fuel that already has ethanol is pointless, Heat is just alcohol, and ethanol is alcohol so your just adding alcohol to fuel that already has alcohol in it.
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From: Schiller Park, ILL Member: #317
That is correct, not to mention the fact that cold starts (especially cold weather cold starts) are where a typical street engine sees most of it's wear. Of course, a handful of these during annual storage aren't going to lead to instant engine failure, but extra cold weather cold starts when you don't even plant to drive the car are really doing more harm than good IMO. I just leave mine sit dormant over the winter, never had any problems doing so.
Last edited by RPM WS6; Oct 11, 2014 at 01:55 AM.
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Guess i learned something new. I keep my garage at 50 degrees so i dont think it was really doing any damage on starting it during the winter. For my 73 k5 and boat that sit out back I pull the batteries out of those and put them in the garage on my bench for the winter. I cant say in all my years and all my cars(up to 91 in the last 4 years)that ive ever had an ethanol related issue. Only fuel issues ive ever had were related to small engines not being setup for long term storeage. My bottle of stabil must be pretty old as i dont see anything about ethanol on it. Also i lived down in florida for many years and just moved back up north after 10 years last year so its been awhile since ive really had to winterize anything, added stabil to my atvs and bike prior to going on deployments but that was about it for the past 10 years.
