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Feb 10, 2011 | 10:16 PM

Jayme Duty

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mice in engine compartment

I opened my hood earlier this evening and a damn field mouse was standing on my intake. It dove under my washer fluid would not come out. I know that pack rats will do a number on wires, will a little field mouse do the same. I checked every wire i could see and couldn't find any harm but i know there are many more i was missing

Feb 10, 2011 | 10:27 PM

mlouritt

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I had an engine fire in a Grand Cherokee as a result of a mouse nest built on the intake manifold. I had to reach in and pull out a flaming pile of dried grass from the top of the engine. I would not waste any time getting rid of that little bugger.

Feb 10, 2011 | 10:28 PM

Phy

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Yeah, mice will chew up wiring too. Mice chewed up about 6" of the fuel injection wiring on the 460 in my F250 this fall...

Feb 10, 2011 | 10:31 PM

Jayme Duty

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any good tricks on getting him out of there. I got him to poke his head out where he was hiding and gave him a little shot of brake cleaner and now can't find him again

Feb 10, 2011 | 10:42 PM

mlouritt

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Poison or traps. The disadvantage with traps is that you may attract more mice to the bait.

Feb 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

cpetersen

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ya mice will eat through wire we had one chew through our directv wire first time the guy had seen it since he been workin there

Feb 11, 2011 | 12:18 AM

Dark Horse

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Not sure about the wires but they will chew holes in the vacuum lines when my mercury started to have problems shifting that was the problem a mouse had chewed a hole the vacuum line to the transmission.
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