atb

My track car has been on jackstands for about 5 months while I've been taking care of some things, and apparently in these cold winter months has become the home of a mouse. How do I know? I buttoned the car up today, put it back on the ground, and fired it up. Started right up the first try. Walked over to look in the engine compartment for any leaks, smoke, fire, etc., and saw a small mouse skitter over the top of the airfilter housing and drop down inbetween two of the spider legs. I imagine the mouse is holed up on top of the "V" somewhere. I had to leave so I shut the engine down and closed everything up for another day.
So, I have a mouse living in my engine compartment, what should I do?

1. Live and let live. Mousey will find another home eventually.
2. Mouse BBQ. Let the motor idle until its good and hot and see if Mousey can stand the heat.
3. Set mousetrap under car and let nature run its course.
4. Chase mousey out with a compressed air line and hope it doesn't come back.

I'm not too concerned about the mouse doing any damage. The track car is an OB, so all metal fuel lines. Most of the wiring has been removed, so there isn't much that can happen there. There are two other 928's in the shop, and I'd hate to see them take on any squatters, and lastly, I don't want this thing plopping onto my lap while going down the track at triple digit speeds.

Something must be done.

Rob Edwards

5. Massive Drug Overdose. 0.3 cc IP push. If you can catch him.

Catfood

Kill it! They are vermin I trapped over 13 mice this winter so far trying to seek cover in my garage! Peanut butter is the best bait!

RKD in OKC

Cat, I give my house cat free reign of the garage about once a month. Every once in a while she comes running back into the house with her tail all bushed out. I've seen no mice to date.

Was showed a 911 that had been stored all winter and just didn't run right that spring. The whole engine compartment including air box and intake runners was filled with dog chow from the same garage.

danglerb

Traps with peanut butter, careful not to leave a human scent on them, or place them where other animals might trigger them.

I leave out the packets of rat poison in the most common rodent passage areas.

Rodents in the garage may decide to come in the house, or walls of the house, and the damage they can do just from fouling an area isn't to underestimated.

When its gone, vacuum out the area it was in, don't breath the dust.

Mrmerlin

Dont forget that mouse will pee on the places its visiting ,
you may want to check further into this.
A good mouse trap is to put a 5 gallon bucket filled with some coolant,
then a thick wire through a coffee can to act as a wheel ,
put the PB on the outside of the can and a board to the rim of the bucket ,
mouse leans over to the can then falls into the coolant.

xschop

Tomcat brand adhesive traps work great.

Opelotus

BBQ would be fun but unless the mouse sits there and gets cooked, you won't be eliminating it. And you don't want that mouse getting into another car. I like the peanut butter on mouse trap method, it's usually a nice quick death. I have seen mice chew their own legs in an attempt to get free from sticky traps so I don't use them anymore.

auzivision

Do the humane thing.

Get youself a live trap and some peanut butter.











Then drown the S.O.B.

the flyin' scotsman

Where theres one theres potentially hundreds...........they're filthy, disease spreading vermin.

I keep a barn cat and he sleeps in the garage in the winter.............no rodents of any kind

Bertrand Daoust

You could use a Ultrasonic Rodent Repellents
or something similar.

http://www.victorpest.com/store/rode...rodent-control

It did work at my brother's cottage.
After years and years of trying to find where they could get inside, he tried that (or something similar) and no more mice inside!
Just plug it and it keeps them away.

jeff spahn

We have an ultrasonic rodent repeller in our summer house and it really works on mice.
Small pie tin of coolant sitting out on top of engine with some nuts on a little ramp to top will work well. Mouse drinks coolant, mouse dies.
We use pie tins of coolant to get rid of red squirrels that chew through our redwood siding. They love the stuff cause it is sweet and they die.

911tracker85

I have owned my 911 twice, long story. but the relevant issue is the interrim owner had a dog. and the first winter he owned my 911 did a lot of detail work.

I buy 911 back, and a couple years later need a top end rebuild due to worn valve guides. at one point the mechanic calls to review all parts and asks how many dogs I have. I do not, have cats.

apparently when stored for the winter, mice took dry dog food up into the cooling shroud and stored on top the engine. was causing intake valves to overheat.

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second story.

when installing a new radio in my 928, find a large quantity of litter and shells inside the console. so far I have not found any serious damage done.

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my cats are inside/outside and are good mousers, and protect the car in my garage.

but I also rent a garage to store one of the Porsches

jcorenman

Mousetrap. Cats are useless, at least our was. Last winter we thought it was odd that he went on an eating binge, cleaning his dry-food bowl spotless every night. Then Sue finds this cat-food stash in an canvas bag in the back corner of the pantry, it turns out that at least a couple of the critters had been living under the fridge and raiding the cat's food, right under his nose! Mousetraps took care of that problem.

A few weeks ago, the GT was in the shop with the air cleaner off, and MAF pulled out. I had stuck a blue paper shop-towel into the throttle-body, just habit. I pulled it out the next day to reinstall the MAF, and found it partly shredded and with some mouse droppings-- some little critter had used it for a bed overnight. That evoked an interesting image of a little mouse trying to hang onto a wide-open throttle plate at 6000 rpm-- but we set out some traps instead, and hit the hardware store for more weatherstripping...

leperboy

Kill it. A mouse had chewed through the seven-way splitter for the vacuum lines in my car when I got it. If there is soft rubber, they will find it. They will poop out corrosive crap, especially if they have access to berries or other acidic things. And they will drag in all kinds of debris to make a nest, as they had in my valley and on top of my intake.

Matt