"Woody and Gary,
I know tha
"Woody and Gary,
I know that Gary's advice is the accepted technique for winterizing, but it never made sense to me. I do fog the engine, but I don't do this with the engine running. Instead, I disable the ignition, remove the spark plugs, and spray the fogging oil into the carb bores (throttles wide open) while cranking the engine. I do this for about thirty seconds.
Then I drain the carbs of fuel, and pump Marvel Mysery oil into the fuel system, using the primer bulb.
Squirt some more fogging oil into the bores and turn the flywheel clockwise by hand once or twice around. Squirt some fogging oil into the spark plug holes, and replace the plugs.
Before starting up in the spring, thoroughly flush out the fogging oil and the Marvel Mystery oil.
The reason I do this is because it seems to me that if you fog the engine while it is running, some of the oil gets sucked through the engine and goes out the exhaust. Some of the oil burns up in the cylinders (hence the smoke), and I don't like burning lots of oil in there, no matter what it says on the can of oil. Some of the oil does coat the crankshaft, bearings, piston rings, etc. This is really the only result that we need, and it is best accomplished by fogging while cranking.
Most people that I tell this to think that I'm crazy, but I am convinced that it is the right way to go.
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