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How do you winterize your ballast system?


jtrovato

  

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  1. 1. What do you to to winterize your ballast system?

    • Run marine/RV antifreeze through the lines
      5
    • Drain the tanks and let the pumps run dry and leave it at that
      14
    • Drain the tanks and pull the cartridges from the pumps
      1
    • What's winterizing? I ride year-round!
      3


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The recent post got me thinking and wanted to get a poll to see what everyone else does. I have been running RV antifreeze through the lines to make sure nothing freezes. If this is completely unnecessary, then I'd like to save the money and not do it. If running them dry and leaving them be until the Spring is the way to go, then I'm all for it, just thought that the water left inside the pumps and lines could cause some damage in freezing weather.

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I go and park on the steepest hill in town and run the pumps as all my drain pumps are at the back of the tanks. Get an extra 5-10 gallons out of each... then you know the piping to the drain pump and drain pump are bone dry on level ground

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I go and park on the steepest hill in town and run the pumps as all my drain pumps are at the back of the tanks. Get an extra 5-10 gallons out of each... then you know the piping to the drain pump and drain pump are bone dry on level ground

I like this idea ... I have the same boat and will definitely do this too!

Thanks,

Mike

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Hit drain..... Whistling.gif

At service training they said for what little water stays in the pump or tanks it can't do any damage. As long as they are "drained" then there is plenty of room for expansion.

-Paul

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Thanks for all the replies, that'll definitely save me some money this year. It's good to know that they teach the service techs the same method of just hitting drain. That definitely makes me feel more comfortable with that method.

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