Air (oxygen) encourages the formation varnishes, which hardens and cruds up your fuel lines. This takes about 1 month if it's warm, about 3 months when it's cold.
This is really important to keep dust out of your engine. Be sure to remove them next time it's started.
If you start a car, and then let it run for only five or ten minutes, what you're doing is producing moisture. And the engine doesn't get hot enough to make the moisture evaporate, so it just sits there, and contaminates the oil, and forms rust on the cylinder walls and exhaust system. -- BAD!

Consider jacking your car onto four level stands and removing your tires, too, to avoid flat spots.

Before starting your car after storage, re-connect the battery, pull all the spark plugs, and crank the engine for several seconds to re-lube the cylinders with oil. Re-connect, start, and enjoy!

 

I'm not planning on storing my car for winter but, anyone have suggestions for readying my garage for winter? I was thinking about puting up some insulation material over the windows, and possibly puting a space heater in there for the REALLY cold nights. Do you think I would wake up to the smell of my S in flames?

 

Start by cleaning the garage. Those concrete sealers are nice, because it's easy to keep clean. For the top-of the-line floor "treatment", see rpstl's avatar picture.

If you plan on leaving it parked for a few days/weeks, to keep the dust off.

 

An update on #17.

I was not happy with the results I got from this, especially in winder when the floor becomes damp/wet. The carpet retains water and does not give the tires enough support. Even though I have not encounter "Flat-Spots" in my tires, I did not want to risk my tires as my car will be stored for longer than the "usual" time.

FlatStoppers -- Prevent flat spots in your expensive tires when storing your vehicle. When you store your vehicle for long periods of times, use the Flatstoppers - Race Ramps. The known "whap whap" that flat spots cause is only one of many problems they cause. The Flat spotters aid in tire life and prevent cooling and warming of your tires making them more vulnerable to breaks and blows as well as cracks. Even on bias ply tires, the Flatstoppers put an end to flat spots to ensure your first cruise after storage is just as great as the year before. These non skid Race Ramps won't slip on any surface and won't leave marks on concrete or asphalt. The dimensions of the Flatstoppers are 22.34" long x 14" wide x 1.5" tall and are lightweight, weighing only 4 pounds each.

 

I know it's a little cool for the time of year, but it's still a bit early for winter storage Mike, isn't it?!?

 

I think that it has soimething to do with the knee


I have seen these before. They are not cheap. Let us know your results

 

I'm expecting to have my other leg done in the fall, so unfortunatley, I will not be able to drive the S until spring next year. I have not fully decommissioned the car yet in hopes to drive it a while before the next surgery.

It was pretty difficult just moving it to tget it up on the ramps.

 

Let us know if you need any help* - be glad to give a little in return...

* help moving the S; not to 'get it up'

 

For those that will be storing you car for the winter... I thought I would bump this thread as it will be time soon. I think I'm putting mine up this weekend.

 

For those that will be storing you car for the winter... I thought I would bump this thread as it will be time soon. I think I'm putting mine up this weekend.