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Chxbeachva


Location: Long Island, NY
Joined: Oct 31, 2010
Points: 52

Summer Storage
Original Message   Mar 12, 2011 9:30 pm
So I had a fun season with this JD 1028 I picked up last October. I have a busy few months ahead so I have to put this thing away while I have the chance. I ran the machine until it ran out of gas and changed the oil. Since this was only it's first season is there anything else I should do before I put the cover on it? It probably had about 20 hours of use.
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samdog


Joined: Feb 9, 2010
Points: 55

Re: Summer Storage
Reply #11   Mar 18, 2011 12:39 am
Lots of good advice.

I'm in the carb draining club, or if it doesn't have a drain, I remove the bowl and wipe it clean.

Ounce of oil in the cylinder and close the valves also very important.

royster


" It is the use of power tools that separates man from animals"

Location: New Brunswick, Canada
Joined: Feb 11, 2011
Points: 284

Re: Summer Storage
Reply #12   Apr 15, 2011 11:23 am
  Yesterday, I put my Craftsman 52993 snow blower    ( pictures under the heading  "my snowblower picture "  Mar31, 2011)   in the barn for summer storage.  Outside on  the driveway, .I washed off the auger and impeller casings with the garden hose and let it dry in the sun.  I used a car paste wax on all the painted surfaces, I got a spray can of light oil  at Canadian Tire  and sprayed the inside of the auger and impeller casings , including the auger and impeller .all the bare metal control rods and the skid plates.

I filled it up with gas and put  10ml  of  Sta-bil in the gas tank,  I run it for about 10 minutes , then changed the oil, It only had a few hours  on it,  ( I had changed it the first time  when it had 5 hours on it., )Again I  used Mobil 1  5/30 , I lightly lubed the  discharge  and the deflector drive control levers, .the hydro lever and the drive speed and traction drive control levers  Checked the heated grips . I started it up again and drove it up the ramp into the barn. Then I removed  the sparkplug  and put just  a few drops of the same motor oil in the sparkplug hole , pulled it over a few times and put the sparkplug back in . then I put on the  breathable snow blower cover .    Did I forget anything?  

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