Winter Storage

[peterbrown77]

Overdrive, Whip, Paul, JFP - thanks for the advice. Makes sense about exposing the piston rods on the struts leading to corrosion. It's going to have to suffer that indignity for a while until I get the rims back from the shop because, short of buying "storage wheels" or trying to rest it on the disks, there is no way around it. I will try to keep it to a minimum duration. If I can eyeball them I'll spray some Starrett on the exposed parts once the suspension is unloaded.

Still deciding about the oil situation. While there is obvious advantage in leaving a car with a full fuel tank to prevent condensation (especially with ethanol in the fuel) I'm still not certain about it's benefit with the motor oil. Look at it this way: you would have to actually fill the entire crankcase with oil to achieve the same effect. Whether there's an 8 quart puddle of oil below the cylinders/crankshaft/bearing/seals/camshafts seems kind of irrelevant. Like Flavor's posts, but on a mechanical scale. It's just sitting there, lubricating nothing. In fact, I had an oil pan rust through on the diesel on my boat for leaving the oil in through the winter Condensation puddles at the bottom of the oil pan, under the oil, and it has nowhere to go. I now leave it empty and the plug out so it has an exit.

Overdrive - where in CT? I live near Essex but work in Middletown.

Thanks to all, with obvious exception of one among us.