Letting my truck sit for 6 months over winter

Fill the tires to max inflation with plywood under each tire. If not covered in a garage I'd cover the tires to keep the sun off of them.
Make sure your fuel tank is full and charge the batteries about once a month.
You will have flat spots in the spring but it goes away with a few hundred miles in nice weather.

Ours always sits for a minimal of 6 months until we can pry it from the snow bank. We always pull the batteries, charge and store them in the house basement over winter. We also cover the tires to protect them from the UV.
Come spring and the MH always fires right up.
Our winters are just to long and cold.

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Military have to do that all the time. Fortunatley my wife drives mine once a week when I deploy but plenty just park it in the designated lot on base and are prepared to jump it if necessary on return.

x2 I bought a new S-10 before I went to Korea for a year. My mom would start it and move it every few weeks but put less than 10 miles on it and it was fine when I got back.

I stored a car in a field for 6 months over winter. It was a gasser so filled the tank and added Stabil and ran it through the engine. Also aired up the tires to 10ibs over to prevent flat spots and used a small solar charger panel set on the dash (car pointing south west), kind that plugs into the 12v port. Came back in the spring and car started like it had been started the day before. No problems at all.

My Dodge sometimes sits for a couple months without being touched.

Full diesel, no additives necessary unless you are worried about gelling.
I connect a battery maintainer under the hood and shut it (keeps the snow of the maintainer).
No worries about the tires, or oil or other fluids.

Military have to do that all the time. Fortunatley my wife drives mine once a week when I deploy but plenty just park it in the desgnated lot on base and are prepared to jump it if necessary on return.

Do NOT put the bait near the truck!

They call it BAIT for a reason: It ATTRACTS the mice.

You want to bait them AWAY from the truck. If you bait them to the truck they will decide that there is a good food supply there, and move in. Others will have eaten the poison and died, but the smell of food will still be there to attract the live ones.

No different then farm equipment ,sits till next harvest time.ask a farmer.

Wash/wax, air up tires, full fuel tank and batteries disconnected. Put a battery maintainer on them a day before I am ready to fire it up and life is good. I have done that on my 08 Ram 3500 and 12 Ram 3500 every year and other than losing my radio pre-sets its been all good.

Daryll

Do it all the time and no problem with tires.

I have had more problems with MICE. They get under the hood and start chewing wires. :R

Just-One-Bite is the only one I found that actually works.

If you do NOT have pets around I use the bags under the vehicle. Place them by each tire. And place the big bars under the hood.

I crawl underneath and place a big bar on each axle in the middle. Try and kill them before they get to the engine.



Don't get the green water resistant ones they do NOT work mice won't touch them. Get the yellow ones, they like those!:B

Last year I left the truck for over 8 months and the above arsenal tactics is what finally worked. Feed stores carry it and some Tractor Supply stores.
http://www.justonebitebrand.com/agricultural.html