Them mice get in everything
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I found an oil pan filled with a mouse nest. For some reason the PO removed the drain plug and never reinstalled the plug after they drained the oil. This pan had a small drain hole with no easy way to get to it, as in a close cross member. This mouse or these mice, had to jump up and catch the hole opening and then do a pull up of sorts to get in, all with a mouthful of grass and what ever else was in the mess. When I say filled, I mean FILLED to the crank! They even had it all partitioned off with different rooms, including an out house area! Between mice and red squirrels it is a constant battle. Just junked a tiburon GT from red squirrel's, the tasteless buggers ate the coating on most of the wiring harness under the hood. My "99" F250 was parked for too long in the spring, a Robin installed about a half a bail of straw under the hood on the passenger side. I was out near the truck when I heard a noise from under the hood. Once I opened the hood I couldn't see most of the diesel engine on the left. Did see a nice smooth nest with three eggs in it. Sorry,but it all had to go. It took me 45 minutes to pull and tug all of the straw and grass out of the engine bay. Even after the shop vac, I still had nesting material that I couldn't get to left down in the area. I have found I have to move things around in the spring and the fall.
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They get sneaky too. A few years back I had a Robin building a nest on my down spout where it curves back to the house to hug the wall going down. It would build a nest and I would knock it down. After the third nest knock down, I got to where I watched the bird from my barn. The bugger took the remaining debris from the nest and flew off to the east, as I watched from my barn. Then I noticed it stopped in the tree on the east side of the house. Then flew down to the east side of the house. I went over and looked, the bugger was building the nest on a different gutter on the second story. I could barley reach the one near the garage, I gave up. I think it is the same Robin that has built or reused the same nesting area for three years now.
I know they are laughing at me when I drive by on the lawn mower. lol
I know they are laughing at me when I drive by on the lawn mower. lol
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Robins will return to the same nesting spot, so it's likely it is the same one.
I took me a few years to dissuade one from nesting on a decorative implement hung on my garage wall. I would have been happy to live with it honestly, but they would dive at me whenever I tried to get in the garage... Between a robin nesting, and me having access to my stuff, I'm going to win...
I took me a few years to dissuade one from nesting on a decorative implement hung on my garage wall. I would have been happy to live with it honestly, but they would dive at me whenever I tried to get in the garage... Between a robin nesting, and me having access to my stuff, I'm going to win...
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20 yrs ago I bought in an auction a 56 10 wheeler. Of course clutch stuck. Pulled of the
clutch pan; oh my, all plugged up. these bell housings do not have the top vent like
common flatheads only have a 1/8 pin hole with the cotter pin on the bottom of the
flywheel pan simple drain hole. so how can they go though this little hole with a cotter pin stickin in it??????????????? sam
clutch pan; oh my, all plugged up. these bell housings do not have the top vent like
common flatheads only have a 1/8 pin hole with the cotter pin on the bottom of the
flywheel pan simple drain hole. so how can they go though this little hole with a cotter pin stickin in it??????????????? sam
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From: Michigan
20 yrs ago I bought in an auction a 56 10 wheeler. Of course clutch stuck. Pulled of the
clutch pan; oh my, all plugged up. these bell housings do not have the top vent like
common flatheads only have a 1/8 pin hole with the cotter pin on the bottom of the
flywheel pan simple drain hole. so how can they go though this little hole with a cotter pin stickin in it??????????????? sam
clutch pan; oh my, all plugged up. these bell housings do not have the top vent like
common flatheads only have a 1/8 pin hole with the cotter pin on the bottom of the
flywheel pan simple drain hole. so how can they go though this little hole with a cotter pin stickin in it??????????????? sam
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More than half the vehicles out there today have rodents --- people just don't see them.............had a customer with a Toyota Prius just last week that had two nests (in the glove box (they had eaten half her owner's manual to make a nest) and back by the hybrid battery)......................
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