I reciently read in the National Enquirer that the suicide rate among mice
has soared a wopping 200%.What's going on with these mice?And why are they
picking Vanagons?
-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@MIDWEST.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?

>Hi Daryl,
>    I had the exact same thing happen to me several years ago. They make
one
>terrible stink.  They can get into the vents, heater, defroster from the
>front. If you  remove the upper grill and check on the outer left and right
>side edges of  the fresh air scoop there is a slit along each out edge.
>There is no easy way to get them out of there. The first step in gaining
>access to the front heater is to remove the dash. Look at section 80 in the
>bentley book it has a bit of info there.  If you are going to remove the
>vent / heater system I would get an new set of flap seals for the vent,
>heater, and defroster flaps.
>
>Darrell Boehler
>
>
>Ps. we will need to go camping some day with Larry Johnson so we can do a
>Daryl, Darrell,  and Larry routine.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daryl Jorud <djorud@PRTEL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 8:50 PM
>Subject: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
>
>
>> Drat!  Some rodent,  probably a mouse,  has gotten into the front
>> heater core area of my 86 GL and given up the ghost.   As the odor is
>> anything but pleasant, something has to be done about it, and fast.
Where
>> do these little guys get in?  Isn't this unit supposed to be screened off
>so
>> that little beasts don't crawl in?  I have tried taking some of the air
>> ducting off under the dash panel, but I can't find the dead critter.  I
>have
>> the 80 to 87 Bentley manual, but it has absolutely nothing in regard to
>> disassembling this unit.  Only has heater info on the air cooled early
>> vanagons and the diesel, nothing in regard to waterboxer heaters.  Does
>the
>> later issue(s) of the Bentley manual have this information?  I'm amazed
>that
>> the 80-87 does not.  OR, can someone give me some tips on an easy way to
>> solve this stinky situation?  From what I can see, this job is going to
>take
>> several hours once I get the instructions of what to do first, second,
>> third...........  Thanks very much for help from anyone who has faced
this
>> kind of a stinky mess.
>>
>> Daryl Jorud
>> Battle Lake, MN
>> 86 GL
>> 85 Double-cab
>> 83 Rabbit convert.
>> 82 Rabbit pkp
>>
>