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longterm storage car do's and dont's please...

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littlefeller
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Post by littlefeller » Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:56 am

yeh i would just park it up, i did, a couple of things i should not have though - i left the hand brake on (oops, yep it seized on) then when i first started the lude up after around 4-5 months the revs were very eratic, this may have had something to do with the water level in the rad, this was real odd as it never looses water but i found it was empty. i didnt notice this till i drove it to free the brakes, the temp guage went into the red in a very short time, parked up and checked water level :o no water, where the hell did it go. first i thought omg head gasket :o , but since then its been fine. no water loss at all, very odd. your original list is fine, i should have done the same. you dont actually need to remove the wheels, just lift the car off the ground. i wouldnt bother with fueling it either, petrol has a shelf life and would need to be replaced after storage leaving you with the hassle of how to get the old fuel out.
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Post by Ted » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:33 am

good point about the fuel shelf life. i would drain the tank and fill it with kiln dried sand, this will absorb any moisture in the air :|
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Post by littlefeller » Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:51 am

i dont know if you really need to drain it completely, if say there was 1 bar left on your guage it should be fine, just leave the cap on, there wont be any water in there as its full of fuel fumes, if water was a problem then it would always be a problem even when using it daily. yeh getting fuel out is a bugger as tramroad found out emptying bag-o-bum droppings. crist it took fooking ages, in the end we just left it in there :lol: if you leave it with just 1 bar then when your ready to use it again, just fill it up and dilute the old fuel :D

i have left fuel in tanks before for a very long time, for some reason the fuel seems to separate into different componants and the smell changes, its actually quite a nice smell, reminds me of happyer times in my youth messing about with old bikes like the gt250 x7 or my old s1 triple :lol: (he sits there,eyes mists over) oohhh memories, hope i dont go senile in old age :lol:
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