Good thing I wasn't going to reinstall that padding

[targa80]

Well today I was prepping the engine to go back into the car and I noticed that the engine looked like it was very dusty. I should note that the car has not been running since 2002 when I started an off chassis restoration of the body.

In 2005 I moved from SoCal back to Long Island due to a transfer from my former company. So I slapped the engine into the car and got the brakes and steering working and made it a roller and towed it to Long Island. From that point on it sat covered on a four post lift for 9 years, while life got in the way, I finally retired in September 2012 and it has only taken 9 years to get back to work on the car.

That's when I found this in the air box while blowing off the dust. It seems I had a couple of field mice making a home out of the air box. I should have known I was inviting trouble with a 40 lbs. bag of bird feed stored in the garage with the car.

[MongooseGA]

Yikes!

[HawgRyder]

Were they California mice?
If so...package them up and mail them back to the warm state....LOL
Bob

[targa80]

Originally Posted by HawgRyder

Were they California mice?
If so...package them up and mail them back to the warm state....LOL
Bob

No they were definitely Long Island mice, I did capture and kill the whole dang family.

I threw out the bird feed and started feeding a colony of feral cats. I for one won't have a rodent problem again.

[MongooseGA]

"Six in one, half dozen in the other."

[porschetub]

Originally Posted by targa80

Well today I was prepping the engine to go back into the car and I noticed that the engine looked like it was very dusty. I should note that the car has not been running since 2002 when I started an off chassis restoration of the body.

In 2005 I moved from SoCal back to Long Island due to a transfer from my former company. So I slapped the engine into the car and got the brakes and steering working and made it a roller and towed it to Long Island. From that point on it sat covered on a four post lift for 9 years, while life got in the way, I finally retired in September 2012 and it has only taken 9 years to get back to work on the car.

That's when I found this in the air box while blowing off the dust. It seems I had a couple of field mice making a home out of the air box. I should have known I was inviting trouble with a 40 lbs. bag of bird feed stored in the garage with the car.

Little b#ggers its amazing where they can get ,we live in the country and the wee ones come out and say look @ me (before our cats get them) and then right in front of me one of them pops under a closed door with a gap around 8-9mm...amazing ,they have bones right? are they made off rubber?
So many threads on here with them living under fan shrouds and building nested in stored motors,atleast they have good taste in cars .
Read about a 928 owner in Europe that purchased a pristine car that had been in storage for sometime ,stuff didn't work well when he took it out of storage,turned out some little critter called a marmet (?) had eaten a good deal of an essential part of a main wiring loom.
Make those wild cats your helpers and not much more.

[brighton911]

Another mouse story. They work fast, really fast. Parked my work car one day, started it 18 hours later, missing badly. Open the hood and see why. Ignition wires chewed up and a half built nest in the air cleaner box. That mouse probably sets the record for speed but even so, with lesser mice your car sitting for a couple of years could have resulted in a 50 story high rise! Hate those things

[NYNick]

Originally Posted by targa80

No they were definitely Long Island mice, I did capture and kill the whole dang family.

I threw out the bird feed and started feeding a colony of feral cats. I for one won't have a rodent problem again.

Pretty soon you'll be getting a dog to chase away the 100's of cats…feral cats multiply quickly.

[fanaudical]

Definitely check under the shroud...

[Jesse16]

Off topic but,, might I suggest a little trap, spay/neuter, release. Request via your local Humane Society. Looks like you have enough helpers for your P-Car Rodent Termination program.

[SC Eddie]

Use a dryer fabric softener sheet. Micky doesn't like the smell.

[LanceS4803]

Originally Posted by brighton911

Another mouse story. They work fast, really fast. Parked my work car one day, started it 18 hours later, missing badly. Open the hood and see why. Ignition wires chewed up and a half built nest in the air cleaner box. That mouse probably sets the record for speed but even so, with lesser mice your car sitting for a couple of years could have resulted in a 50 story high rise! Hate those things

A buddy works at Ft Hunter Liggett, CA, where they have ground squirrels.
He has to leave the engine hood open on his car during the day or else the squirrels crawl up into the engine compartment and go to work on the wiring!

[OK-944]

I needed to store my 944 in a barn for a winter a few years ago...and when two cats decided to take up residence in the car's rear compartment, I decided to let them say there - so long as they kept things neat (which they did), on the assumption that they'd keep the mouse population under control - which they did!

[panelbilly]

Just don't feed the cats every day. They'll hunt more often, if they're hungry