Smart Vehicle Storage

danchurch
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:43:41 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

I have a nice Lotus M100 that needs some work that, quite frankly, I can not afford. It already has been sitting more than one year with a gas tank near full. By some miracle, it started up immediately last month and ran well. It still will not get any attention until warm weather return to my garage–if then.

I had to rebuild the fuel system of a SHO that I mistreated similarly.

One car geek I know suggests only that I should start it weekly. I wonder if I might purchase one of those mechanical oil-change pumps to evacuate the gas tank, then run the engine dry.

Some sage advice, please.

(I do have a high-tech battery tender nursing my Optima.)

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