- First Name
- Cliff
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- San Angelo
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- Wildtrak
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That must have been great right up to the point where it quit running lolDarned mice/ground squirrels/rodents
I live right against a city desert park preserve, there's every variety of animal, and I have only a carport, so I've had my challenges with critters. This is with my 14-yo Tahoe, so different materials and YMMV.
A few years ago, found my truck smelled like popcorn after a few minutes running, and then starting stalling after driving any distance. Some investigation later, the corn smell was due to a pile of stuff from a quail block that'd I'd been buying to attract the birds in the neighborhood, a hundred feet away from where the truck was. Some small critter(s) had built a nest in the engine compartment, and fortunately hadn't chewed through any/few things in the engine area. However, the stalling was due to someone chewing through the wires to the fuel pump, right at the connector to the fuel pump, which of course was atop the fuel tank. Tank was freshly filled, so my buddy (my mechanic) had to empty the tank, drop it, replace the fuel pump (it was the second, and was now over 150k miles old, good preventive maintenance), repair the wiring, then put it all back together again.
No more quail blocks for me
I used to live way out in the country without so much as a carport to park in, I'd go outside and see foxes sitting on the hood of my Jeep, coyote crap in the yard, skunks and rattlesnakes on my porch, ground squirrels digging holes in my driveway, roadrunners scratching on the windows, packrat nests underneath the old pier and beam style foundation of my house, just total animal anarchy in general....and never once had a problem with wiring getting chewed through. Moved here into a small neighborhood and haven't seen anything but feral house pets and tree variety squirrels, to say I didn't expect wires to get chewed up in my vehicle is an understatement.
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