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How To Prepare Your Snow Plow For Storage

Posted by Jodie Gilroy

Mar 13, 2012 1:01:00 PM

Your BOSS PLOW is designed for heavy-duty, rugged service with minimal maintenance. To ensure that it gives you the same high performance year after year, preparing your snowplow for storage over the summer months will extend the life of your BOSS snowplow.  

 

Check out the step by step guide and video below for properly preparing your BOSS V-Blade or Straight Blade snowplow for storage.  After completing these steps you can rest assured that your BOSS blade will rest well over the summer months and will be ready for you when the snowflakes fly again.

 

Putting Your V-Plow into Storage

1. Before you detach your plow, grease any exposed chrome or nitro bar on the lift cylinder rod and on the angle cylinders to protect them from corrosion.

2. Follow the normal procedure for dismounting from the truck.

3. Power the lift tower forward until the lift cylinder is completely compressed. This will protect the lift cylinder from corrosion.

4. Disconnect all electrical plugs and coat each connection with dielectric grease (lights, valve assembly, pump, pump solenoid, and battery). Install all dust caps and plugs provided.

5. Touch-up any rust spots or chipped paint.

6. Loosen the trip return and the blade return springs.

7. Grease the coupler spring pins.

8. Grease the vertical hinge bushings.

 

POWER-V BLADE SNOWPLOW STORAGE PROCEDURES VIDEO

 

Putting the Straight Blade Plow into Storage

1.  Before you detach your plow grease any exposed chrome or nitro bar on the lift cylinder rod and on the angle cylinders to protect them from corrosion.

2. Drive the snowplow to a storage site. Follow the normal procedure for removing the plow.

3. Power the lift tower forward until the lift cylinder is completely compressed. This will protect the lift cylinder from corrosion.

4. Disconnect all electrical plugs and coat each connection with dielectric grease (lights, valve assembly, pump, pump solenoid, and battery). Install all dust caps and plugs provided.

5. Touch-up any rust spots or chipped paint.

6. Loosen the trip return springs.

7. Grease the coupler spring pins.

8. Grease any exposed chrome on the angling cylinders to protect from corrosion.

 

STRAIGHT BLADE SNOWPLOW STORAGE PROCEDURES VIDEO

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