PITBoat
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Jul 26, 2018
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- 286
run motor on hose (you may have the hose adapter at the pivot)
change engine oil and filter
fire up to verify no oil leaks
pull drain plugs on block (one on each side) - use a piece of wire or a deck screw or small screw driver to make sure debris isnt plugging the holes
pull drain plugs on manifolds (one on each side) - use same probe to clean the holes
pull large lower hose and drain - then replace hose
if you have a power steering cooler drain that too
motor is now winterized
if you want to put AF in the motor, now you put the plugs back in and fill the motor with a funnel thru the thermostat housing from the hose that comes from the drive.
change gear oil in drive. if you have water in there, it will come out as chocolate pudding. that is a reseal of the drive as a winter project
check for water in the tilt clutch assembly - refill as required. if you find water, you have another winter project.
drive is now winterized
depending on how/where you store it, you may be uncovered in a garage, or wrapped up in a boat-cocoon.
if you store it where critters live, take a box of bounce dryer sheets and place thru-out the boat. then take a bar of irish spring and shave it down, putting the soap on small paper plates or bowls thru-out the boat (smells better than moth balls and will keep both spiders and mice away)
pull boat plug, store bow up
cover it up if needed
store the drive down (I normally just pulled the drive)
I hate to keep beating this winterizing thing, but I found something in the manual today about removing the "water drain plug on the port side of the pivot housing", cranking the engine a time or two to expel any water from the drive pump, tilting all the way up to drain, back down to drain, then reinstalling the plug. (Clymer, under Lay-Up)
I don't even see a plug on the left side with the drive down.
Then in the Transom Assembly section, there is something about unscrewing "each of the 3 water drain/vent plugs," under Disassembly. There's a pic with a plug visible on the left with the drive up.
We've got a couple of mid-30s lows forecasted for this weekend, and I've rigged up a light in the bilge just in case (kinda risky on a couple of levels), but I want to make sure when it really starts to get below freezing here (and I've actually drained the motor, exhaust manifolds and PS cooler, and done the point about checking for water in the "tilt clutch assembly" as noted above - which I hope will be self explanatory when I actually look at that), that I'm not missing something related to the drive and the rest.