Smell in the heater found

citroen · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:00 pm Post subject: Smell in the heater found

i have a 73 that i changed over to the fresh air style last year no smell it worked great this year i have been fighting a smell that i could not find i thought oil smell or exhaust the smell was still there i had forgot that i had parked my thing in my sisters garage for 2 weeks in oct and forgot she said she found mice in the garage i was driving it thursday and the interior filled up with smoke i stopped the car grabbed the fire extinguisher turned of the battery safety switch could not find the fire got it home checked the heat duct and found mice turds the mice had built a nest in the duct and it caught fire the smell was the mice turds getting hot replaced the duct and the smell was gone so beware of barn finds and if you have a smell you cant find check the ducts i had also replace the heat box i guess i will put the old one back on

norcalmike · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:10 pm Post subject:

many of my friends busses ,and my bus i just got as well, is no stranger to mice infestation from their long slumbers in the fields they are found in.. the long metal heater duct that runs under the bus gets a harsh cleaning with high pressure water and detergent. mouse shit is nothing to play around with.

DougD · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:04 am Post subject:

ewww... fried mouse turd sounds like a smell you can't unsmell

Semper_Dad · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:22 am Post subject:

swhitcomb · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:27 am Post subject: Re: Smell in the heater found

herewego · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:43 am Post subject: Re: Smell in the heater found

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Holy shit is that awful grammar. Ever hear of a period?[/quote]

Citroen's posts can take a little work sometimes, but he's an old guy who knows his stuff and who has provided lots of information in this forum. I, for one, don't mind taking an extra couple of seconds to work out his posts. The value he provides is well worth it to me, and I'd rather read them as they are than not have them at all. Just my humble opinion -- he hardly needs me to speak for him.

Semper_Dad · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:04 am Post subject: Re: Smell in the heater found

wv181 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

Is it just me or is it funny that a guy from West Virginia is giving grammer lessons to a guy from Kentucky. Laughing

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Semper_Dad · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:40 am Post subject:

herewego · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:42 am Post subject: Re: Smell in the heater found

lifeisgoodin29 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 12:07 pm Post subject: tube screen

I have found living in the desert that rodents play hell on my vehicles. What I have done is to place a plug made up of hardware cloth in the heater tube to stop the infestation of mice in the heater channels. The hardware cloth allows the air to pass through but keeps out any intruders

Mal evolent · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:23 pm Post subject:

steel wool also works. they try to eat it - once.
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citroen · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject:

ok i am old and i am from ky believe it or not i have 2 years of college and i still ask my wife how to spell words and i dont mind being corrected. thanks for the good words my brother and i that i call the domeck brothers like to work on cars and help people.with him doing the body work and me doing the mechanical we have made most the mistakes so we can help others to not make the same mistakes we have made i guess i type like i talk non stop hope to see some of you at rons show ths july and thanks again

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And i was just posting last night that we had been in a "Troll Free" zone for some time just as the Grammatik-und Rechtschreibungs-Polizei post.

swhitcomb · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject:

swhitcomb · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 8:27 pm Post subject:

Btw, along the lines of the original post, I'd check all the cooling tin for nests too. I've taken apart a decent number of engines that had nests, be it mice or insects, directly on top of the cylinders, right in the airflow path.
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citroen · Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 6:08 pm Post subject:

i agree i checked also i removed all heat ducts from front to back and i will be replacing them with custom made metal tubes with steel wool a good idea . Thanks sorry i will try to type better but when i typed that i had just got back from a 700 mile trip picking up a car and i had been up since 4:00 am and it was 10:00 pm and i was a little tired.

wbrown45 · Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:38 am Post subject:

I love the smell of burning mouse turds in the morning. It smells like......well, burning mouse turds. Very Happy

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