Well it looks as if I've finally found a winter truck so that I can park the Silverado over the winter months and work on it. What are some good tips for winter storage? Maybe I'll finally get that darned LS6 cam in. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

winter? whats this guy talking about?

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">winter? whats this guy talking about? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">NO ****! our winters are like 45 degrees and everyone around here walks around with their big, "i'm in new york parkas" <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

 

Lol, you Texans kill me... you should come up north for a month in the winter to see what you're missing out on!!! Up here we wear shorts and a t-shirt if it hits 45 degrees!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" />

 

LOL, well it's around 45 right now in this warehouse I work in, and i'm freezing my a$$ off.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 99FireTA:
<strong> Lol, you Texans kill me... you should come up north for a month in the winter to see what you're missing out on!!! Up here we wear shorts and a t-shirt if it hits 45 degrees!!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">No kidding, 50 degrees and it's swimming weather. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

This is totally unrelated to my original post but this summer I spent two weeks on Oahu and Maui. We left for the top of Mt. Haleakala, I dormant volcano on Maui at around 2am to make it up the volcano in time for the sunrise. We were up there with a bunch of other people and the temp was around 40 degrees. All the southern state, California, and island folks are in parkas hats and gloves walking around shivering. I'm in my shorts and a long sleeve t-shirt. Everybody was looking at me strange and asking me aren't you freezing? I said "no I'm from Michigan and this isn't even close to cold yet". <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> A few weeks ago it dipped down to around zero for a few days here.

Ok enough rambling, if anybody has any good info on vehicle storage let me know. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

You could put a cover on it to keep dust and crap off. I have a custom one by Wolf and it fits like a glove.

 

I was planning on a car cover for it. Any tips or tricks like how to keep the fuel that's in the tank reasonably good for the 3-4 months?

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by JSmith:
<strong> I was planning on a car cover for it. Any tips or tricks like how to keep the fuel that's in the tank reasonably good for the 3-4 months? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I use fuel stabilizer(get it at the hardware store) in gas yard tools but, have never used it in a car/truck. You'd be surprised how easy things start after sitting all winter with that stuff in the gas. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

I would fill the tank completely up to help keep condensation from getting in the tank. Maybe even get some of that dry gas stuff. I don't know exactly how that stuff is supposed to be used though. You might want to just start the truck up every week or so to keep the oil, water, trans(put it in gear with your foot on the brake <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> ), and fuel circulated. Oh, and unhook your battery in between. It will reset your computer but, might help to keep the battery from going bad with a small load on it all the time. It won't get rid of any extra programming if the computer resets, just the stuff the computer learns from your driving. It'll just relearn that stuff when you take the truck back outta storage. Your radio presets will be gone but, that would only be a problem for Neil 6.0. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />

One other thing I just thought of. You might want to keep it on some jack stands to keep the tires from getting flat spots. They will eventually return to normal after driving it but, until then you'll be doing this on the back glass. <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

You might even want to put fresh oil in before you store it because of the corrosives that build up in the oil from normal engine operation.

Wow, that post kinda rambles on but, I kept thinking of stuff. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" />

John

 

I used to just go out and start my TA up atleast once a month to keep everything "lubed up". I figure you don't have to bother disconnecting the battery this way either. ALSO, as crazy as it sounds... run your AC for a while when you do start it, it's good to keep the condenser from seizing up due to lack of use. As far as how much gas in the tank, I've heard it's good to leave a full tank in it, but I never wanted to let a full tank sit for so long, turning "bad" for lack of a better term. I usually leave 1/2 tank of high octane with about 2 bottles of dry gas. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />