Winterizing - Drain lines???

[Mayakovski]

Moring all;

Tonight is the night my baby goes to sleep for the next 6 months. I have everything ready, but I have niggling thought that I am supposed to do something to drain the fuel lines. Something about removing the pressure in the system. Or is that only if I have to disconnect the fuel lines for some reason.

Thanks

 

[Moto-Uno]

For myself (2018) Eldorado , all I've done was add fuel stabilizer to the fuel and run the bike for a few miles to insure
it is throughout the system , it's started and run fine every spring . Just a suggestion ! Peter

 

[Mayakovski]

For myself (2018) Eldorado , all I've done was add fuel stabilizer to the fuel and run the bike for a few miles to insure
it is throughout the system , it's started and run fine every spring . Just a suggestion ! Peter

Thanks Peter.
That's what I thought. Pretty sure that is what I have done past years, plus a few other tweaks. Just couldn't remember where that idea about depressurizing the fuel line came from. But I think that is for when you have to remove the tank.

 

[john zibell]

Thanks Peter.
That's what I thought. Pretty sure that is what I have done past years, plus a few other tweaks. Just couldn't remember where that idea about depressurizing the fuel line came from. But I think that is for when you have to remove the tank.

Yes, you release pressure to remove the tank.

 

[DeadEye]

I use fogging oil in the carbureted Honda, but I’m not so keen on spraying that stuff into the Guzzi.

Any thoughts on that , I guess it coats the cylinders, when I crank the Honda over with the Kill switch on, but that doesn’t happen on the other bikes…

 

[GerryAZ]

Pull the spark plugs and put some oil directly into the cylinders, then turn the engine by putting transmission in gear and turning rear wheel. Install plugs after turning the engine.

Personally, I never bother with that on the NY bike and the AZ bikes don’t hibernate. I park with fuel tank nearly full and charge the battery periodically if the bike is not being ridden.

 

[john zibell]

Pull the spark plugs and put some oil directly into the cylinders, then turn the engine by putting transmission in gear and turning rear wheel. Install plugs after turning the engine.

That is asking for a bunch of carbon build up when you start the engine. Can't say I recommend that.

 

[GerryAZ]

That is asking for a bunch of carbon build up when you start the engine. Can't say I recommend that.

Yes you are right, it would be easy to put too much oil in it. I probably should not have suggested that.
FWIW, my NY bike often sits for almost a year between visits without incident. I wash it, ride enough to dry everything out, fill the tank at a nearby station (preferably with alcohol-free premium), park it in my brother’s garage, and turn the engine off. He usually remembers to charge the battery periodically. It sat for two years during the pandemic that way and started as if it had been ridden the day before after I installed a new battery.

 

[Moto-Uno]

Over the last half century I made a point of putting a single squirt from a squirt can in each cylinder and touching
the start button and then reinstalling the plugs . You can rest assured that if sitting for months there will be barely
a trace of oil left in the cylinder . This has been on iron lined cylinders mostly , but also for decades on my Le Mans 2
which now has close to 1/4 million kilometers on it . But then things are a bit different in The Great White North , when
living in Ottawa , my bikes sat for at least 1/2 year in the winter and out here on the west (wet) coast , the near endless
rain tends to affect most metals . And , of course , YMMV . Peter