Storing your stuff for the winter

[Kidmows]

the trailer stays loaded in my garage over the winter. I leave fresh gas in it and put STA-BIL in it for the winter

[LandFakers]

Drain gas, run dry, put on trailer, and store in outdoor shelter logic shed. I always leave one BP blower out to blow all that really powdery snow around.

[FMC1959]

Originally Posted by Patriot Services

Use canned fuel. This is ethanol free with great stabilizers and is meant to sit for prolonged periods of unuse.
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I had heard of this but never tried it. Did some searches and see Trufuel as a popular result, is this what you use, or do you have something better? Using it daily as an LCO would be costly, I am guessing you mix during the season and use this stuff just to store your equipment?

[Patriot Services]

Originally Posted by FMC1959

I had heard of this but never tried it. Did some searches and see Trufuel as a popular result, is this what you use, or do you have something better? Using it daily as an LCO would be costly, I am guessing you mix during the season and use this stuff just to store your equipment?

That's the stuff. I only use it down here in stuff that only gets run a few times a year. My father uses it in buffalo for everything when the seasons change. Guarantee the snowblowers and snowmobiles will fire right up in Dec.
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[FMC1959]

Good to know. I might try half my stuff with Trufuel amd the other half I am going back to run dry and a bit of oil in the cylander, see what happens next spring, thanks

[CL&T]

Before spending $$ for TruFuel you might want to check first to see if there is a gas station within a reasonable distance that sells E0 (ethanol free). They are out there and even if you have to travel some it would be worth it to fill a couple of 5 gallon containers even just to winterize your equipment rather than spending $40/gal for canned E0.

[dahammer]

Originally Posted by JB1

don't do anything and haven't had any problems.

I'm with you.

[FMC1959]

I would love to be one of the "don't do anything and haven't had any problems" club, but that isn't the case.

Almost all of my 2 and 4 mix equipment, within a year starts to have slugish performance. Still starts, still performs well, but a little more tempermental to start, and not quite as responsive on the throttle. I am convinced it's either the winter storage, maybe the oil mix, maybe the gas in my region, but when I have my dealer tune it up, it's just dirty carb, carbon deposits and it works like new after.

Originally Posted by CL&T "Before spending $$ for TruFuel you might want to check first to see if there is a gas station within a reasonable distance that sells E0 (ethanol free). They are out there and even if you have to travel some it would be worth it to fill a couple of 5 gallon containers even just to winterize your equipment rather than spending $40/gal for canned E0"

I know what you are saying but for me the TruFuel would not be for day to day operations, too cost prohibitive. I plan on buying 2-3 cans and for winter storage I would empty the tanks on all equipment and put 5-6 oz of TruFuel in each. Then run them a couple of minutes to make sure it has gone through all of the lines, warmed well and burning nice and clean, then turn them off and store them. Next spring I'll see how everything performs.

[caseysmowing]

Well I was hoping to find a overwhelmed number of people doing the same thing that had good results but seems like everyone does there own thing. I havn't had any problems before but I try to start my stuff every once and awhile during the winter. I guess I'll try a combination of all these things never thought of filling them all the way up to keep water out.

[CL&T]

Originally Posted by FMC1959

I know what you are saying but for me the TruFuel would not be for day to day operations, too cost prohibitive.

Not suggesting that at all. Like I said if you do the math it's about $40/gal. About the only ones that use TruFuel regularly is emergency services. Their equipment mostly sits around but when they need it to run they need it and really, how much fuel do thay use. So for them that cost is not a factor, for us it would be a disaster.

-Hal