Storing a gas snowblower till next winter

 Never had a gas powered snow blower until now.  How do I store it until I
need it next winter?
The engine takes a mixture of gas and oil.
I already ran it until the engine died for lack of fuel.
What else do I need to do (i.e. with the spark plug, etc)

Thanks.
Walter

  Walter Cohen wrote:

    That's the big part.  For me I would be sure to hose it off to get any
salt off of it and clean it up.  I might spray any exposed metal with some
WS-40 and store it someplace dry and safe.

--
Joseph Meehan

 Dia 's Muire duit

 
Emptying gas tank and carburettor are primary.
I also (2) empty the oil sump;
(3) remove spark plug, squirt a few drops of oil
in the hole and pull manual starter once (to
distribute oil on cylinder walls, and replace
the spark plug only finger tight;
(4) store under cover from the weather.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

 

NO FINGER TIGHT SPARK PLUGS !!  I unknowingly started a lawn mower with a
finger tight spark plug.  When the spark plug left the cylinder head and
went through the side of my boot I figured "no problem" it will heal.  Two
weeks later they amputated my great toe at the first joint.

Bill

 
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...and I'd say the same to the suggestion to "drain the oil".  Bad idea -
you will forget, and it will be expensive when you're reminded by the
shrieking sound of bent, busted piston & valves.