jay

Personally, I don't recommend pulling the battery because if you let it sit until spring without starting it most likely you will have a hell of a lot of lifter noise when you start it up in the spring. This will be the fifth winter my car will have been in storage; it goes in to storage in October and I usually bring it out in April. The first year I stored the car without a battery charger on it so I started it every month and let it get to full operating temperature before shutting it off and never had an issue. The second winter I started using a battery charger so I left the car sit idle all winter and when I started it that spring the oil had run off the lifters and it took about 10 minutes before the lifters noise went away. So since that second season I start the car once a month and let it run for until it reaches temperature, which takes about 10 minutes, and I have never had any lifter noise since.