[SEL] Very OT but need help

[John Culp]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Jerry Evans wrote:

>        My girlfriend has an Isuzu pickup (Ute, Bakkie, Truck depending 
> on where you live) and had a lot of problems with rats. At night they 
> liked to crawl into the air intake plastic duct (probably nice and 
> warm). When she started the engine the next morning the rat would be 
> sucked into the duct and end up stuck in the part that narrowed down 
> just before the air filter.  Did you know that an Isuzu cannot run if 
> it cannot breathe ? ;_0
>         This happened a few times before I took some wire netting 
> (chicken wire ?) and bunched it up and forced it into the entrance to 
> the duct. Problem solved - after that they just kept happy by chewing 
> through the wiring harnesses :-)

Gerald Johnson once told me he had an old crawler tractor 
(International?) powered by a Jimmy 4-71 Diesel. Field mice nested in 
the intake, and on startup the debris trashed the Roots blower. After 
rebuild, it had screen occluding the intake passage.

John Culp
Bristol, Tennessee, USA