SweetLou
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Also, for any mice or rats I was shown to use peppermint oil mixed with water in spray bottle and spray all wire areas. They apparently don't like the smell. Will it last 6 mo, IDK. I also was told to use a strobe light under the truck. Might not work with the security system though.
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Cummins12V98
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Personally have never used a battery tender for long periods. Just disconnect the negative terminals, it's free and works.
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Retired JSO
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I own a c7/corvette. It is parked in my garage, only driven April-Nov. it has been plugged in 24/7 since new. No battery problems yet.
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Worry less about the battwries and more about internal engine rust from condensation. Lost a 350 chevy that way once. Crank bearings rusted on it and spun one.
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One thing to think about is if you can you might want to wait till temps start to go down to fill it up the last time, below ~10F #2 diesel sold in the summer can help or form waxy crystals, #1 winter diesel won't do that, even half and half should be good to -5F.
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If you do use a battery maintainer I recommend you do not use a GFI outlet if possible.
I had a maintainer connected one winter and there was a power surge that activated the GFI. When I got home I found my battery totally dead.
I suspect the maintainer run down the battery as it was looking at the battery voltage which put a small load on the battery. I had the car in storage for 7 months.
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Grit dog
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And you could connect a (single) maintainer to both batteries and disconnect the batteries from the vehicle then it wouldn’t matter if the power goes out or a gfi trips. The maintainer will not put a draw on the batteries when effectively unplugged. It becomes an inert object at that point.
And no, diesel doesn’t stay permanently gelled or harm anything after it warms back up.
And it’s also 1000% unnecessary to fill the tank, as also stated earlier in this thread.
And the likelihood of engine rusting internally and causing a failure is about the same as winning the Powerball lottery. So if you believe that is a high % chance of happening I’d also go buy a few powerball tickets as your propensity for beating or losing to the odds is FAR greater than everyone else’s.
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Anymore old wives tales and misconception we can throw in this thread?
Like maybe block your axles up so the tires don’t flat spot or the concrete doesn’t suck the good stuff out of the rubber? Lol
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ppine
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Use Stabil in the fuel. DEF has a service life of about 6 months.
Letting vehicles sit for 6 months is hard on them. Pull the batteries and put a low voltage maintainer on them.
I have 4 vehicles and make sure I drive them all at least once a week. For a month off I just disconnect the ground on the batteries. But for 6 months they need to be charged.
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Turtle n Peeps
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Grit dog wrote:Anymore old wives tales and misconception we can throw in this thread?
Like maybe block your axles up so the tires don’t flat spot or the concrete doesn’t suck the good stuff out of the rubber? Lol
LOL, Grit they forgot the throw salt over their left shoulder and let it gently fall into the bed of the truck. Or keep all black cats 100' away from your truck.
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