Mouse Mayhem
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Mountain Pass
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Mouse Mayhem
Had the 93 F250 w-460 parked for two months in San Antonio at the storage place that I've been using for two years now. Flew in, grabbed a taxi, checked batteries, low but ok to start. Started but sounded awful, like the exhaust was ready to fall off.
Checked under the truck...nothing loose or falling off. Let it warm up a bit, put it in drive and no power. Shut it down and popped the hood again, thinking rodent.
Discovered one plug wire loose from the distributor cap, with the rubber boot completely missing, another plug wire nearly off, with the metal band missing inside the boot, one injector unplugged and the water temp sensor off the bung.
This rodent must have been strong...some of these connections are hard to get off.
Got new wires, plugged everthing back together and the truck runs like a charm again.
Anybody know of a way to make my engine competent less tasty to the rodents?
Checked under the truck...nothing loose or falling off. Let it warm up a bit, put it in drive and no power. Shut it down and popped the hood again, thinking rodent.
Discovered one plug wire loose from the distributor cap, with the rubber boot completely missing, another plug wire nearly off, with the metal band missing inside the boot, one injector unplugged and the water temp sensor off the bung.
This rodent must have been strong...some of these connections are hard to get off.
Got new wires, plugged everthing back together and the truck runs like a charm again.
Anybody know of a way to make my engine competent less tasty to the rodents?
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From: Minneapolis & Terlingua
It'd be easier if it was a vandal...could shoot him/her here in TX.
I changed out the plug wires last night...always a nasty job on the 460's. I installed a Rid-a-Rat! light under the hood, hoping that this works. Funny thing is I bought the Rid-a-Rat! right before I parked the truck in storage. Was late getting to the airport so didn't put it in. Could of avoided disaster
Bummer is that I snapped all three vacuum lines above the passenger bank of plugs, as one of the plug wires needing to be replaced was the one at the very back and I must have leaned on the vacuum lines as I bent and reached in to get that plug wire off the plug. I spliced the vacuum lines back together with some vacuum line that I just happened to have on hand that had the perfect ID to match the OD.
Those tubes are so brittle...they break with nearly zero force.
I changed out the plug wires last night...always a nasty job on the 460's. I installed a Rid-a-Rat! light under the hood, hoping that this works. Funny thing is I bought the Rid-a-Rat! right before I parked the truck in storage. Was late getting to the airport so didn't put it in. Could of avoided disaster
Bummer is that I snapped all three vacuum lines above the passenger bank of plugs, as one of the plug wires needing to be replaced was the one at the very back and I must have leaned on the vacuum lines as I bent and reached in to get that plug wire off the plug. I spliced the vacuum lines back together with some vacuum line that I just happened to have on hand that had the perfect ID to match the OD.
Those tubes are so brittle...they break with nearly zero force.
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