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Mice in the motor!

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Oliverific

01-27-2007 16:56:58




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Got the 99 head pulled today and found a mouse den. Everything looked good otherwise. I guess a little mouse power never hurts!




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730virgil

01-28-2007 09:58:16




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
tractor dealer in mt carroll il sent one of his men to shed to get hay baler pickup truck ready for hay season . truck wouldn't start or turn over . it was drug into shop and head pulled off . one cylinder was full of corn . exhaust valve open . thought mouse got into tail pipe and up in engine . once worked for dealer that took new holland 985 comine in on trade tailings elevator paddles wouldn't move . rat got in eat his way through some paddles and died . some wisen heimer said i bet he died of belly ache .

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Walt Davies

01-28-2007 08:58:47




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
When i bought my Case LA I bought another one for parts. It had a good radiator mine was shot. So I cleaned it up painted it with primer and then let it set in the barn for a week or so while I got the 45 LA ready to put it on. After I put on the 45 it ran hot I couldn't figure it out until I saw little dead mice floating in the top of the radiator. It took me a long time to get all that crap out of there. The little guys were cooked pretty good but I couldn't get anyone interested in stewed mice.
Walt PS next time I will cover the outlets while it sets waiting to be installed.

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Paul from MI

01-28-2007 06:52:40




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
I once bought a 1964 Ford truck with the old 292 Y block V-8 in iut. It sat for years under a wild cherry tree with an open exhaust pipe-no muffler. Engine was stuck solid. The mice had carried cherries up the exhaust pipe and into all of the manifold/cylinders on one bank. They couldn"t get to the other bank because the heat riser valve waws closed. A complete overhaul and we used it for years, but I probably clened out two quarts of cherry pits. They even filled up the bell housing too. Paul

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Brad in WI

01-28-2007 00:23:43




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
A friend of mine has a dead mouse in the water jacket of his IH 10-20 not really sure how we are going to get one out yet.



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Chris(WA)

01-28-2007 05:47:46




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Brad in WI, 01-28-2007 00:23:43  
I would say add coolant and operate the engine untill boiled tender! I wonder if the cooling system would even know it was there? Kind of like my friend the butcher's recipe for kidney's....Just boil the P*ss out of them!



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huntingreen

01-27-2007 21:48:36




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
Helped a friend pull a JD GP out of a shed that had been sitting 20 years or more. The engine would roll over before we started home with it. when we got home and tried to rollm it over it would lock up near TDC. Pulled the plugs and some dirt dobber nest were causing it not to roll over. We washed it out with a water hose, then blowed air into the cylinder. Towed it about 10 feet and it fired right up. Still starts and runs good after about 7 years.

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Howard H.

01-27-2007 21:05:26




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  

Yes - I'd like to see pics, too!

The local mechanic got called out one time to look at a V-12 GMC irrigation motor that was locked down - the farmer said it turned a little and stopped. My friend couldn't get it to loosen up and finally pulled the head off.

A mice and/or a rat had packed one cylinder plumb full of maize...

HH



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old

01-27-2007 18:41:35




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
I've got a D-17 allis that had that problem. It took me a long time to get all that stuff blown out of the cylinders. Yep I didn't pull the head off of it and when I first tried to start it the thing would run on one cylinder. I pull the other plugs and for the longest time each would get covered with junk. Then slowly it started to hit on 2 then 3 and at last 4 cylinders and it purrs now or did last fall

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hillbillyOH

01-27-2007 18:14:20




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
It's good to hear you're starting the restoration process. Please keep us updated.

p.s. pics?



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Oliverific

01-27-2007 18:38:42




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to hillbillyOH, 01-27-2007 18:14:20  
Will do hillbillyOH. thanks for the interest



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Yugrotcart

01-27-2007 17:36:45




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Oliverific, 01-27-2007 16:56:58  
Don't they put mice powered engines in Kia's.....

Paul



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williamf

01-28-2007 05:04:23




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 Re: Mice in the motor! in reply to Yugrotcart, 01-27-2007 17:36:45  
Renewable energy is all the rage. There's a tax break for rodent powered vehicles.
One American manufacturer, as quick on the uptake as usual, is experimenting with twin hippopotami on a treadmill.
Wm



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