yanmar fuel lines ready for winter

[Greg]

I was wondering if it was recommended to drain the fuel line during engine winter prepreation?Any thoughts?

 

[Bob Knott]

Fuel Line

In the Northeast were we have cold winters, but not too long thankfully, I just add fuel stabilizer and water absorber. This is added a week before I yank the boat. Make sure to run the motor for a 1/2hr to 1 hr., so the stabilizer travels throughout the lines. The fuel tank must be full for the winter to prevent excess water acululation, although some is inevitable.Thanks it in the spring she'll start right up. Make sure to change the oil, oil filter, fuel filters, and impeller whwn you haul the boat so it's ready for the spring.Thing Spring!Bob Knott

 

[Stephen Ostrander]

ditto

I agree with Bob K. Draining the fuel line will only cause you to have to bleed it in the spring. Here in MI I use diesel store & start and it always start right up in the spring, and it gets @#$%! cold here!

 

[Alan Nye]

Total Agreement

I do not drain fuel lines either, a little storage additive and it starts up and runs fine in the spring. Good Luck

 

[Ed Schenck]

Bleed fuel lines?

Very interesting question because the Hunter manual does recommend that. But I've never read that anywhere else and I have studied a lot of winterizing information. No one, including our marina, does it that I know of.

 

[Jim McCue]

fuel line

I've kept mine primed all winter for almost 10 years. no problems in the spring. All I do do is drop in the battery, back off the compression levers, push the start button for about 10 seconds, stop, then engage the compression levers and hit the start button. You may want to throw in some diesel stabilizer and run it a while so it mixes well and gets into the engine fuel reservour