Hey folks, been awhile. Been busy with school and work. In between class and work though. I managed to get a 1989 f250 "custom" 2wd. It has 4.9liters of fire breathing mouse eating, minty, almost running fun in it. 4 speed manual, no idea what it has for rear end. All I know is it had a mouse inside cylinder number one, that it has since ate. This was due to someone doing plugs on it 4 years ago and then not putting that plug in. My bud then turned it over and got it to run on 5 cylinders. Until yesterday 05/17/2025 it finally had 6 spark plugs. We sprayed some oil based undercoating that said "extremely flammable" into the manifold to see if she would wake up at all. You can tell it wants to run. Builds great oil pressure. Does have bad gas but, that's a easy fix. Its got 93k on it.

It has some newer parts such as exhaust muffler, fresh oil, an aluminum or stainless drive shaft, block heater . That's just what I have found as of now. Down side is. Its basically pink. "Flesh colored". Hence the name it has been dubbed being flesh mouse 250. Even the old bench seat isn't that bad. Have one rip on it and no foam missing.

Currently trying to find the best way to keep myself from getting ill from the mouse poop and urine. I'm thinking a portable sprayer with disinfect bleach for a few days with a respirator.

. This thing was a mighty fine work truck back in the day. It has a block heater, vinyl floor, even the original owners manual in the glove box sealed up in a plastic cover. My goal is to get it up and running again using the price I paid for it. $600 not including the price of tools or disinfectant. Its future will be a hobby welding truck.

New project! 600 bucks in and 600 more to make her run well (for parts not tools)

Mice got to her, no wiring gone that I know of yet.

These are highway worthy. Held air for like 20 years. They are fine.

Ol gurl on the farm just pulled out of her den.

Is this a project you guys would like to see more of as I go?

 

Yes, of course.

However, I will die a happy man if I never have to read, "Fleshmouse" ever again.

 

I think you meant "FleshMouse250" a local legend.

 

Hey, ours had a mouse nest in the same place! And several others. But not in a cylinder, that's special.

I ended up pulling the whole interior, replacing what we could find, and cleaning the rest with simple green. They had been all through the hvac. It was disgusting, but I didn't catch the mouse clap, so, that's something.

That is an unfortunate color.

 

you need to rename the old girl to something more manly.... maybe Pink Thunder.

 

Nice truck, but MAN I think I would be shopping the discount spray paint bin to get SOME color to cover that up!! WHat were they thinking??? As for the mouse house? Open windows to air out goes a long way for a first step!! Mask, and shop vac to get the big stuff, then start pulling stuff.. Get the seat out, and start looking under the dash. They like duct work.

 

If there EVER was the perfect color truck for a certain rear bumper dangling ornament....this is definitely it.

 

Fortunately, there never was.

 

How did you go about removal?

 

Vacuum, disassemble, excavate, wash, reassemble. There was more to it, but I've blocked out most of it to save my sanity. I did however document much of it on Youtube, . Part 3 is where we really got into mouse removal.

Hopefully yours is not as bad as ours. Ours was parked between a chicken coop and a farm field for a few years, so the mice had really gone to town on the poor thing. They had nested in the aircon box, the passenger's A pillar, the hood reinforcement, the headliner, the seat (which they'd tunneled through like an ant farm), the glovebox, the muffler, and the clutch.

Hopefully your infestation is less intense. I would clean up what you know is there, then do a little digging around to see where else they might've gotten to. Mice are like rust--there's always more than you think. Check around the heater core. The ozone may do some good, but it won't remove the turds.

The most important thing is keeping them out, or you'll be doing it again. On ours, they got in under the cowl (there was foam around it originally, but it had turned to dust), through a hole they'd chewed in the shifter boot, and through the cowl drain in the passenger's wheel well. I bodged the shift boot and cowl drain, removed the cowl, and screwed screen over its intakes to keep them out.

Edit: not sure why a link turns into a whole video player. Not sure how to turn that off.