First time WInterizing - Help!

[jeremiah.hough]

If there is already a thread on this please send it to me. I haven't had any luck finding it.

I need to winterize my 08 22ve with the Marine Power 5.7. Does anyone have any good steps/directions?

Thanks!

[chpthril]

Here are a few threads. Post up if you have any specific questions. There are tons of threads/post.

http://www.tigeowners.com/forum/search.php?searchid=331123

[Timmy!]

I just did mine yesterday, here's what I did:

Put Stabil in the gas tank and then put a few gallons of fresh gas in the tank to mix it all up
Using your fake-a-lake, fire up the boat and let it warm up to get that Stabil flowing through the fuel system
I then pulled the knock sensors and wing nuts for the exhaust manifolds and drained all of the water out of the block and then reinstalled
Pulled the heater hoses off and filled with pink RV Anti-freeze and then reconnected
using my homemade bucket contraption, put 4 gallons of the RV anti-freeze in the bucket and fired the boat up.
when it got down to about 2 gallons, I started spraying fogging oil into the throttle body until I was out of anti-freeze and then shut the engine off.
disconnected the batteries
remove all of your life jackets, ropes, etc
cleaned the entire boat
Say goodbye :(


Some like to change their oil in the fall, I change mine in the spring. I've also seen that some people aren't using the fogging oil anymore, I still had some from last year so I used it. I think it's optional.

[Timmy!]

Here's my homemade setup. For the anti-freeze bucket I used a piece of hose and a couple of fittings to get it to stay in the bucket and then a piece of sprinkler line as a vent (not sure that it's needed).

[Jason B]

^^^^^
That's a great idea. So simple I'm kicking myself in the *** for sucking pink anti-freeze thru a hose to prime the line. haha
My mouth/lips were numb for about 45 minutes.