Member Since: 08 Apr 2018
Location: TEIGNMOUTH
Posts: 16
Mouse ate my fuel tank!!
Got the D3 ready for the weekend, washed and polished it, filled it up......fuel dripping on the garage floor. To cut a long story short. Took it to local Indy they took the tank down and there it was, the top of the tank had been nawed, tooth marks to prove. Gutted!!! Had snags finding a replacement tank. Any suggestions to keep the blighters out?
7th Jun 2018 10:35 pm
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4400
Install a new cat?Richard
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7th Jun 2018 10:41 pm
discofinn007
Member Since: 08 Apr 2018
Location: TEIGNMOUTH
Posts: 16
Tried to.....scratched the hell out me
7th Jun 2018 10:58 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8101
If they are hungry give them something nasty to eat, I always leave a sachet of rat food under the bonnet, they love fuel pipes and electric cables. It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
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8th Jun 2018 9:25 am
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8101
They do have a preference in pipes, the flavour of the year is the little flexible bubble used to prime small engines on hedge cutters and chain saws, they have eaten 4 of mine, not touched anything else. It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
8th Jun 2018 10:25 am
discofinn007
Member Since: 08 Apr 2018
Location: TEIGNMOUTH
Posts: 16
The thing is, I've got a cat.....he is now unemployed!!
8th Jun 2018 3:11 pm
XDAndy
Member Since: 16 Jan 2018
Location: Gibraltar
Posts: 597
Might want to keep it tho ......
New MOT rules and all that, if you chuck it in the back seat, no question you have a cat installed!
..... as long as you could keep it from trying to escape that is.
8th Jun 2018 4:44 pm
moorman
Member Since: 05 Jul 2009
Location: East Anglia
Posts: 276
Buy a number of packs of stainless steel cleaning balls and a hot glue gun. Lower the tank and hot glue the stainless balls into the void where the connections are. Fill the area so that mice cannot get into the area. Only use enough glue to hold them in position (you may need to remove them at some point). Put a sign up saying closed till further notice
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