I hate mice part2 or why my clutch was slipping

[wpavlis]

Working on old blue today getting ready to pull the motor. Went ahead and pulled the transmission out and found this. Gross.

[toolboxchev]

I found them in my squirrel cage. I have know them to be elsewhere but never there!

[wpavlis]

Yes, they were in the fan and heater box as well. They also took up residence inside the muffler, but outside the actual exhaust pipe. My uncle told me there was a horrible smell when he started it for the first time in years to load it on a trailer when he shipped it to me. When I cut the muffler off to get to the rear suspension I found out why it smelled so bad.

[Barnfind46]

I think mice tend to like the C-10s more than the fords.Can't blame them.

[Richard Jensen]

Yep, I had a bad mouse smell in my 72 truck when I first got it. I noticed the heater core was leaking about the same time, so I decided to replace the core. WOW! Talk about a mess!!! I ended up pulling the entire heating system out of the truck! I took all of the parts, except the blower fan, and defrost ducts and soaking them in a barrel of bleach water(with lots of bleach), then using various scrub brushes, I scrubbed everything good inside and out, and then hit all the metal parts with rust killer and then painted everything with gloss black including the inside of all the parts. I wanted to "seal in" anything that might still be in there so it would never smell. The biggest "damage" was the firewall that opened up to the outer heaterbox/core box. The bottom of the opening was rusted out. I used some brass shim stock to close the hole up and seal it. This is my daily driver and it'll never be a matching #'s truck, so,,,,

Richard