Rich Winslow Before moving to warmer clime, I removed the thermostat to drain the engine and refill with anti freeze (engine did not have intercooler). This gave me the opportunity to inspect the thermostat and one year, I noticed a spring was broken, so good preventative maintenance. I removed batteries and rested them on 2 x 4's in my heated basement- I understand wet cell batteries lose their charge if left in the cold, and when discharged, they can freeze. I also sprayed fogging oil into the cylinders directly through the spark plug holes. You should be able to purchase it at an auto parts supply store. It's inexpensive and a can lasts for years. My Atomic 4 had an updraft carb. and there is no way to pour oil "down" it. Plus, fogging oil is made for this purpose, motor oil isn't. Running the engine while pouring oil into the intake would produce a lot of carbon, which might eventually gum it up, not to mention the air pollution burning oil causes. -----Original Message----- From: cnc-list-request <cnc-list-requ...@cnc-list.com> To: cnc-list <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Sent: Sat, Nov 1, 2014 12:16 pm Subject: CnC-List Digest, Vol 106, Issue 2 I own a 1979 34 C&C which has an Atomic 4 engine. I decided to winterize my boat myself this year rather than hire someone to do it. I tried to follow the instructions in the manual for draining the engine and putting in plumber's anti freeze. Also, I would like to know what other owners of C&C's with Atomic 4 engines do when they winterize in terms of taking out the batteries or if they disconnect them etc. Also, what else should be done to winterize my boat other than following the Atomic 4 manual and the C&C Owners's Manual. Do most owners "fog" the engine by pouring oil into the carburetor. If so, do they use SAE HD 30 engine oil. Any advice would be very helpful. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://cnc-list.com/pipermail/cnc-list_cnc-list.com/attachments/20141101/d92dda97/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------
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