Remove your top grille and do a finger trace on the bottom edge of the
fresh air vent screen.  Feel those dimples near the corners?  Well that's
one entry point, for sure.

Geo/ATL

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> There is no way to keep mice out of a Westy just sitting ..
> especially in any woodsy or 'sheds' type area.
> Totally asking for them to move in.
>
> I get those yellow triangular boxes of mouse poison at the grocery store.
> Ever shed I have has one .. ..under and behind something.
> cars that don't get driven ...
> have one ..
> either on a front floor, or near a rear taillight ( vanagons )
> on my chevy truck I keep one on the intake manifold.
>
> this works really well.
> if you see the blue pellets scattered ....you know.
>
> I have never had a mouse or rat crawl off somewhere and rot and stink or
> anything like that.
> They just seem to dissappear.
> If you smell a urin-ey smell ..that's usually a nest.
>
> don't sweep or vaccum the teuds.
> spray 'em down with chlorox ....so it's a mud with no airborne particles
> possible.
> People have died in a few cases - hanta-virus.
> wash hands thoroughly.
> etc.
>
> ALL undisturbed spaces need to be aired out ..
> mouse poison left in them etc.
> works for me anyway !
>
>
>
>
> On 1/22/2013 8:42 PM, neil n wrote:
>
>> Well, two things I did that REALLY didn't help
>>
>> 1. left the engine lid off for a while
>> 2. never buttoned up the fresh air ram intake project I started at
>> time of engine swap. i.e. that grill never got put back on.
>>
>> image: https://lh3.googleusercontent.**com/-pPZ4oE30zCw/UPw5UpPgZZI/**
>> AAAAAAAAGpY/zvDhbX-iUTw/s720/**air%2520intake.jpg<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pPZ4oE30zCw/UPw5UpPgZZI/AAAAAAAAGpY/zvDhbX-iUTw/s720/air%2520intake.jpg>
>>
>> I just left a half baked flap installed in there that I'd fully
>> intended to wire to a lever at the dash.
>>
>> Looking at things today, I bet it's even possible the lil bugger got
>> in the rectangular hole at the front pillar (shown in image) but
>> that's unlikely.
>>
>> I would choose to play loud Maynard Ferguson.   ;)
>>
>> Really though.
>>
>> Mouse traps. (thought; tie the trap down!) One of those things that
>> emits a high pitched sound. A solid mouser cat. Female and hungry.
>>
>> I'm not want to kill things, but right now, I'd be hard pressed to not
>> drop a brick or 5 on any rodent in or around my bus. And that includes
>> those "cute" squirrels. (aka tree rats) Ok. Rant off now.
>>
>> ;^)
>>
>> Neil.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Tom Carchrae <tom@carchrae.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Needless to say, try not to let this happen to you!
>>>>
>>>
>>> begs the question; what do you do to stop it?
>>>
>>> - van cat
>>> - mouse traps
>>> - poisonous washer fluid
>>> - sonic terrors
>>> - drive the van and play loud rock and rolll
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Neil n
>>
>> 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly  http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp
>>
>> '88 Slate Blue Westy to be named.
>>
>> '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco"  http://tubaneil.googlepages.**com/<http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/>
>>
>> Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/**group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-**
>> 4-cylinder-gas-engines<http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines>
>>
>>