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Subject:Re: Mouse stuff in dash (funny)
From:Jim Felder
Date:Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:58:55 -0600

Reminds me of a friend with a 64 panel back in the 70s. He went to
start it one day and it almost wouldn't start and then ran so poorly
that he went to the back to see what was happening, just in time to
see a family of mice being shot out of the twin tailpipes.

Jim

On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Anthony Egeln wrote:

> When I was living in base housing at Point Mugu, CA, I actually had
> a tree rat living atop my engine (at that time an '86 2WD).  At
> some point I noticed the litter on the indented parts of the
> engine, mostly fruit and leaves from the banyan-like trees we had
> on the street, and was perplexed until I saw the rat hop off one
> day when my wife started the van.  I always wondered if he went for
> rides sometimes because I only saw him leave the car that one
> time.  It was quite a pile of litter so I know the rat was there
> for awhile.
> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>
>
> Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote: I'm ready (well almost) to do
> a full section on how to remove the dash for
> the blower motor and front heater rad change.... but, for now, a
> job a did
> not so long ago, this van had "A" smell... ouffff, you can't
> imagine, it was
> horrible, well, i found out why:
>
> http://www.benplace.com/dash.htm
>
> Half of it is... well, you know what!
>
> hey hey,,, full of it, everything you can imagine... brrrrrrrr...
> took me a
> good 3 hours just to clean everything... + the job itself.
>
> Ben
>
>
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