The Mariah Owners Club - Winterization

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Re: Winterization

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Originally Posted by Dredd (Post 18275)

Depending on how long your off season is I would say about the only thing that the climate control gets you out of is draining the cooling system (which I would personally do anyway because it's not very hard). You're most likely still going to want to pull your battery, change your oils, probably fog your cylinders, etc...

+1 on the above. You need to change the fluids anyway. A drain and flush for the motor will get rid of the crap you've picked up this season. I've flushed sand, pine needles etc from the engine. Fogging and Sta-Bil is also a good idea.
And the two best things, you'll have all winter to do a detail job for next years launch and #1--- it's free!!! :D

Re: Winterization

[QUOTE=WetWilly;10838][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="2"]Great find VernB63!

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Re: Winterization

i need to see the video how to do that:shakehead:

Re: Winterization

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Originally Posted by JWoodliff (Post 18417)

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Originally Posted by WetWilly (Post 10838)

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="2"]Great find VernB63!

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Hi JWoodliff,

Not quite sure what to make of this post since you're quoting me from 10/19/2008, but back then, I was complementing VernB63 as he was the one who originally posted the link to the video. Unfortunately as often happens on the "net", things get moved around and the old links stop working.

If you check out the second page of this thread, post #17, I posted the "new" link, click on the link and away you go (just so you know, the video is almost 25 minutes long).

If that doesn't work, here's the direct address - http://www.nait.ca/flash_videos/techlife/winterize.html , just copy this address and paste it into your browser.

As I said in my earlier post, if the video does not play on your browser, you will probably need to install the "Flash Player" plug-in for your browser. Click here for the Adobe Flash Player download (it's 1.83MB in size).

BTW, I re-watched the video just to make sure the link was still working as of today.... :wink_thumbup:

WetWilly

Re: Winterization

First year with my boat and worried about the making sure I drain all the water correctly. If anyone out there has a 1995 5.7L mercruiser can you confirm there are 4 areas total to remove a screw from to drain water (one on each side of engine block and 1 on each elbow of manifold)? Am I missing anything? Merc manual on this site has some other areas that I was unable to locate but I'm not sure if it refers to newer engines.:confused:

Re: Winterization

I think that's pretty standard and you also want to pull the hoses off the manifolds as well as the water pump and let them drain from there too, then turn the motor over a couple times and it will blow the rest out.