What suggestions are there from you guys for preping my bird for winter storage. It'll be stored outside in my backyard and I can start it from time to time. As of now it's on the road and I'm debating taking it off or not. I'm also not sure if I should use a car cover or if that'd just keep mosture locked underneath being that it snows here.

 

"how to prep for winter?"

Slap some studs on that baby!!!!! That is how I drove mine last winter.

 

Fill the fuel tank and use some fuel stabilizer, take note if you can still buy fuel in your area with out ethanol use it if not thay make a differnt stabill product for the ethonal fuel.

 

buy a car cover. A tarp won't let the car breathe, car covers are meant to be breathable.
and like ross said, fill the tank up to the nuts, and add stabilizer. Check the specific gravity of your rad fluid, make sure it's up to snuff. Wash it good first too. parked outside I take it? I'd remove the battery and put it in your garage and put a trickle charger on it. Bring it out and fire up the car once a month or so and let it run for an hour or so. run it up and down the block a few times if you can get away with it

 

Check the specific gravity of my radiator fluid? I don't understand this?

Also, I can't let the car run for an hour, I have an overheating/high pressure problem that I think is resolved but don't trust it yet. Would running it once a week for a lesser time be as good?

I only had water in the coolant system so today I drained some of it through the valve at the bottom of the radiator and topped the radiator off while off and running, and then filled the resovoir up to the cold mark with anti-freeze. I then let the car run for a little bit and drove the car to my parents house and back which wasn't too far but I thought that it'd at least get some anti-freeze flowing into the engine. It just dropped down to around 30 degrees today that's why I took that precaution now.

 

specific gravity - it's measuring the "density" of the fluid. You use a $5 gauge from the parts store. It checks how dense the fluid is. It's how you measure how much antifreeze is in the rad vs water. So you measure it, and the bob thingy floats to a certain level. It'll tell you what temperature your rad fluid will freeze at. If it's only -10*C, then you need to drain some, and add more antifreeze 'till it's down to where you need it.

A cracked rad or block sucks.

No, you need to run it long enough to warm it up, and drive the moisture out of the engine/car. overheating/high pressure problem? Should be an easy fix, no?