# How do you winterize an outboard motor?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-winterize-an-outboard-motor/204961 "2003-10-01T18:30:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Susanann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Susanann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susanann)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-winterize-an-outboard-motor/204961/1 "2003-10-01T18:30:39Z")

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What do you have to do to a boat outboard motor to store it over the winter? … so it will start good in the spring, and so the gasoline will not varnish inside of it.

Run it until it is out of gas and goes off by itself to empty the gas?

What else?

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**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-winterize-an-outboard-motor/204961/2 "2003-10-01T18:40:24Z")

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[Here you go!!!](http://www.boatmotors.com/winterization/)