Winter is a Rollin :(

Mr.PFloyd

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Jun 22, 2005
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i got about 1.5 months left of driving my supra until winter comes on. I need to know what exactly to do before i put it away. I am definately sticking it on block instead of ebrake it all winter to make sure my rotors don't warp. Im gonna disconnect the battery. Once a week, im gonan drive it around and make sure all the parts are moving and like 2 times a week, ill start it up, warm it up, then close the garage door again :(. Anything else i need to do to make sure nothign happens to it during winter. This is after all my first time putting a car away for winter.
 

Stanzaspeed

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all i did was pop into the garage and start it every two weeks or more. i left very little fuel in the tank and just put fuel stabalizer in the tank. then when spring came around i just dumped some fresh gas in and put in new oil and filter and it was good to go. :icon_surp
 

mkIIIman089

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Mar 30, 2005
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You may want to use some fuel stabilizer as well. Or at least keep the tank FULL so that it won't go bad as quickly.
 

americanjebus

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if its gonna sit. jack it up on blocks, my car sat 6 months and i found that two tires deflated on three occasions (granted it was outside too),

fill the tank to the brim untill there is no more air in there at all, more air = more condensation that turns to water in your tank. put some lucas stabilizer in there and some 5w30 or so weight oil so you can cold start it and have the lucas smother all your parts so you dont crank a dry engine.

clean the car as best as you can, just go through and empty anything that is semi organic, dont leave air fresheners in there, buy a box of moth balls and scatter them all over the interior of your car , seats, glove box, hatch everywhere, hell my car was covered under roof and car cover so i put some dixie cups with moth balls in my engnie bay too.

fill your tires with air, check the psi cus ya dont wanna find one flat and have it crease or something, warm the car up twice as long as you would normally and keep the battery you use charging or in use on another vehicle, its incredible how fast that car will suck a battery dead, i went through 3 FULL charges in my winter cus i left the car connected for two weeks at a time. best if you take the battery out and use it in your winter car that way spring comes arround the battery has still been in circulation and you dont have to deal with the shit i did of having continuos dead batteries.

wash the hell out of it and polish it 6x over, these things seam to attract dirt when they sit. and yea use some stabilizer or some high octane just make sure its totally full. and when spring comes arround go REALLY easy on it and run it dry and fill it up again and put some injector cleaner in the sucker and change your sparkies and your good to go.

i found its just as much work to keep this car sitting still as it is to keep it running.
 

Blue87T(Dan)

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I parked mine in the garage with good oil, took out the battery and 4 months later put the battery in, pulled the EFI fuse, cranked to move some oil around and then fired it up.

If you can get it in the air on jack stands fine, but then remove the tires.