Yeah, I got complacent. Happens every time. I got a rat nest on top of my engine and from that point it’s a mere matter of time before one of the little bastards bites through a fuel injector wire.
And the Jeep suddenly has a five-cylinder engine. Happily, since this is the THIRD TIME IT’S HAPPENED, it was pretty damned easy to diagnose. Looking back in the archive, it’s actually been a while. Last time Generous Reader Terrapod sent me a whole package of fuel injector connectors and I promised I’d store them very carefully so I could do it again next time with less hassle.
And I did. Fifteen minutes in the sun, fixed. Thanks, man.
I just bought a Vulcan rat trap. I’ll let you know how it works. And if it does work and you want one I’ll send
Poison the buggers.
The problem with poison is that it’s more properly called “rat bait”, which means that it ATTRACTS rats. Inside your house where you have at most a limited number of rats that’s exactly what you might want to do. Outside in the desert, there is an infinite number of rats. You can’t buy enough poison to kill them all, so rat bait just gets you more rats.
I pass on the rodent poison in case one of the buggers makes it outside where the dog can sniff and chew on the corpse. We used to have a half-lab (half Aussie, but the lab-half was in charge of the see-food diet) who’d go after dead critters way too often. And we had the vet bills until we broke down and kept her in the big kennel when she went outside.
(That and Cipro has a lot of knock-on effects. Did not help her last year at all.)
Plus they find inconvenient places to die and stink up the place. Yeah, I learned my lesson about poison years ago. I have been known to set traps under the Jeep’s hood, though. Curiously, I never run out of dead mice and rats when I do that. I think the bait just attracts them.
Glad to see a small deed gone well. Save the rest, going to happen again, guaranteed.
Now for my next trick ,wonder if anyone makes an ultrasonic pest repellent device that solar recharges the batteries? Time for some research.
Dang, tech has moved forward since I last looked.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWRZZ8YZ/ref=sspa_dk_detail_3
If it was me, would use a small solar panel to charge a standard 12V Lithium or Nickle Metal Hydride battery pack to power the device.