Mechanic took a short cut winterizing?

[muskokamarc]

I use a mobile marine mechanic for our 1985 SeaRay Monaco which sits on our dock (out of the water) in Canada all year round. The mechanic showed up to winterize the engine unexpectedly and did not have the keys to the boat. He texted me after he left and said he winterized the engine, but i asked him how he was able to run fuel stabilizer and fog the engine without the keys...

He said this: "I put some stabilizer down the carb vent and stabilized the fuel. It got little oil down the intake. Should be good."

Should i be concerned with this or is his method ok? Also, what does it mean that there is little oil down the intake?

In past years I've seen him add the fuel stabilizer, start the engine and bring it up to temp then choke out the carb with fogging oil.

 

[muskokamarc]

Bump

 

[scoflaw]

Your fine for a 6 month layup

 

[Cheap Guy]

Your fine for a 6 month layup

I agree. I stopped putting fuel stabilizer in all of my stored engines because it fouled the plugs. As far as fogging, I just spray carb cleaner at the beginning of the season. Again, this is for short term layups - these newer fuels apparently don’t normally go bad or cause any issues for short storage periods. My main concern is the block having freeze damage and winterizing can usually be done without starting the engine.

 

[muskokamarc]

Glad to hear this. Thank you

 

[Pirate Lady]

Whats a bump? I see this on other threads too.

 

[JayhawkCurtis]

Whats a bump? I see this on other threads too.

It just means the poster has not gotten a respons, so he is “bumping” the thread up the page giving it a better chance to be seen, thus getting his question answered.

 

[Flyer5]

Could he have jumped the starter to crank it?

 

[hughespat57]

Could he have jumped the starter to crank it?

That was my initial reaction
Any good mech has a remote starter button and a jumper wire wirh a couple of aligator clips
Boats are real easy to hot wire…

 

[northern]

We fill boat in October and start it in May. No E fuel is good for a year or so. During Covid we left boat for 2year full of E fuel. Started fine and ran well on old gas. We fill our tanks 300 gallons total in the fall. No stabilizer, no fogging engine.