Sebastien, I have the same engine, and here are the steps I was taught:
- Purchase 1 gallons of "pink" (general with no corrosion inhibitors) and one gallon of "blue or purple" anti freeze with corrosion inhibitors. - Find the "winterizing hose" and have it ready. - Close the raw water thru hull in the engine compartment, and loosen the clamps on the hose at the thru hull. - Remove the hose from the thru hull barb. Attach the "winterizing hose", on the barb and place the other end in a 2 gallon bucket. - Pour 1 gallon of pink antifreeze into the bucket. Have ready the blue or purple. - Start the engine, and monitor the antifreeze level in the bucket. - Right when it is about to get to the bottom, add the entire gallon of blue or purple into the bucket. - Allow the engine to digest all of it to the bottom of the bucket, and right before sucking air, shut down the engine. - Replace the hoses and re-tighten the hose clamps. I have someone else run the engine while I do the hose/bucket part. It takes about a minute to run the stuff out of the bucket. It isn't very fast. Pat On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Sébastien Lemieux <s.lemi...@umontreal.ca>wrote: > I'll be winterizing my 2GM20F for the first time tomorrow (saturday) and > would like some advices on the practical way to fill up the raw water > circuit with antifreeze. I plan on detaching the intake tube of the raw > water circuit from the seacock and putting it in a bucket filled with > antifreeze (I'm aiming for 2 gallons, is that enough?). Then, I assume I > need to start up the engine and wait until antifreeze comes out from the > exhaust thruhull. > > Should I just crank up the engine (with decompression lever open)? If I > need to start the engine, how long should I expect to it? Do you leave the > tube in the bucket unattended while you stand near the control panel to > stop the engine? > > Thanks in advance! > > Sébastien Lemieux > Merlot X - C&C 30 mk2 1987 > Mooney Bay - Lake Champlain > > > _______________________________________________ > This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album > http://www.cncphotoalbum.com > CnC-List@cnc-list.com > >
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