Fogging an outboard

[tacx]

This summer I picked up a 1970 9.8 110 mercury. Getting ready to put it into storage for the winter in Michigan. Do most people fog these engines for storage?

I usually fog all my 2 cycle engines like weed wackers, etc, etc?

 

[tommarvin]

YES, good for you.
You want to warm the motor up to temp, on muffs as you know.then snuff the motor/kill it with fogging oil,and spray some f oil in eash cylinder too, put the cleaned and tested plugs back in finger tight till next season.
Your should do a decarb first, its just 16 oz of seafoam mixed with 32 oz of fresh gas, remove the outlet side fuel line of the primer ball,add 16 inchs of clear fuel line with a coupling 1 gallon glas jug ,run it all thru the motor
Drain and fill the gear lube too.with marine gear lube new blue seals that cost 1 buck a piece..

 

[tacx]

YES, good for you.
You want to warm the motor up to temp, on muffs as you know.then snuff the motor/kill it with fogging oil,and spray some f oil in eash cylinder too, put the cleaned and tested plugs back in finger tight till next season.
Your should do a decarb first, its just 16 oz of seafoam mixed with 32 oz of fresh gas, remove the outlet side fuel line of the primer ball,add 16 inchs of clear fuel line with a coupling 1 gallon glas jug ,run it all thru the motor
Drain and fill the gear lube too.with marine gear lube new blue seals that cost 1 buck a piece..

Blue seals ?? Not sure what blue seals you mean?

Tom

 

[Scott Danforth]

YES, good for you.
You want to warm the motor up to temp, on muffs as you know.then snuff the motor/kill it with fogging oil,and spray some f oil in eash cylinder too, put the cleaned and tested plugs back in finger tight till next season.
Your should do a decarb first, its just 16 oz of seafoam mixed with 32 oz of fresh gas, remove the outlet side fuel line of the primer ball,add 16 inchs of clear fuel line with a coupling 1 gallon glas jug ,run it all thru the motor
Drain and fill the gear lube too.with marine gear lube new blue seals that cost 1 buck a piece..

you cant run a 9.8 on muffs.

that motor would run a week on 32 oz of gas

 

[Scott Danforth]

tacx , drop your 9.8 into a bucket, fire it up, unplug the fuel line and hose down the intake for about 30 seconds with fogging oil. the motor would run for about 3 minutes at fast idle with the fuel in its carb.

then pull the 9.8 out of the bucket, drain the carb (small screw). now is a good time to change the lower gear lub.

then either hang the motor on a stand or lay it on its back

 

[tacx]

Scott, yes you are correct. The water intake is under the ventilation plate. The only way to run on muffs is to remove the prop and install the muffs vertically over the intake and above the plate to hold it on. Much easier to just run it in a bucket making sure the water level is above the impeller level.

 

[dingbat]

I gave up fogging 2 strokes after rebuilding a couple of them.

Everything completely saturated with oil residue even after sitting unused for 2-3 years.

If you think the cylinder walls are “dry”, try welding on one

 

[Sea Rider]

Never winterize my 5-30 HP babies, start them up on muffs or barrel once a month, let them run at idle-fast idle for 3-5 minutes, disconnect tank and let engine die of fuel starvation, that way carb will remail immaulate clean inside and all internal parts well lubed for next start.

Happy Boating.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

My old mercury's I run the tank down to under 1/4 tank and add 6-8 ounces of 2 cycle oil and run the motor another 5 minutes or so. Fogged.