Ya'll ain't gonna believe this!

Ya’ll ain’t gonna believe this. I was off most of the week of thanksgiving. I spent a lot of time working on a buddies motor and getting my car ready to be put away for the winter. Early in the week I had pulled the plugs out of my motor and was going to check all the valvesprings just to be sure everything was OK. I got sidetracked and decided to wait till Saturday to finish up my car. So Saturday comes around and I’m out there in the afternoon checking valvesprings, I’m about finished, and as I’m bumping the motor over to get the valves closed on #4 I hear a whistle as the piston is coming up on the compression stroke and felt something hit my hand. I looked on the ground and there is a powder on the ground under the car. I’m like WTH is that! I shine a light into the spark plug hole, and it’s full of something and I can’t figure out what it is. I took an air nozzle, stuck it into the plug hole and blew a bunch of this powder out of the cylinder. I am baffled as to what it is and how it got into my engine! I swept it up and looked really close…………………………………………………. And I figured out it was rat poison that I had set out earlier in the week. The damn rat was planning on using my engine as a winter home! Of all the places in a shop to hide, I never would have thought a rat would have done that. The car was 18” high on jackstands.

Anyway I took pics because I knew nobody would believe this!

hope you washed your hands after.

wheres the mouse? oil pan??

duff429 wrote:hope you washed your hands after.

wheres the mouse? oil pan??

He came in through header, not the bathroom window

Man I might want to duct tape my headers to keep them ilttle critters out of mine.

69F100 wrote:Man I might want to duct tape my headers to keep them ilttle critters out of mine.

Stuff them with rags and wrap the ends with wire mesh, they eat right through the tape.

Another great use for a football..............Nerf works best.


I have some neat little plastic caps that fit right on the collector.

richter69 wrote:Another great use for a football..............Nerf works best.


I have some neat little plastic caps that fit right on the collector.

Jon,

Just don't forget to take the Nerf's out before you try to fire it up.

Later Mark.

res0rli9 wrote:

duff429 wrote:hope you washed your hands after.

wheres the mouse? oil pan??

He came in through header, not the bathroom window

lol i was thinking after touching the rat poison a guy wouldn't want to put a chew

in with the powder still on your fingers

That's a noodle scratcher for sure!!

Is there anything abrasive in rat poison? Hope you can get it all cleaned out.

Bill

Pull all the Rocker Arms for Storage too... Keeps pressure off of everything for extended periods and closes of the cylinders too.

I have had the same thing happen but my headers were full of BIRD seed! Like your car mine was way up off the ground and I was turning the engine over one day had a sound that something was plugged? It did finally blow out and then I took after it with the shop vac, nothing got into the engine which was a good thing !!!! A really good trick to do is use steel wool ! Mice and Rats don't like it so much because it's like if you have cavities and bite into a piece of tin foil ! The use of plastic and tape will only give them nesting materials ! I like the nerf idea just for the fact to see how far they will go when the engine is fired .


Dan

Good thing that wasn't a BBC (RAT), it would be dead by now.

So do you know where the rat's at? best to find it instead of firing it up then finding out later

Around here it's usually acorns. And my engine was on the stand.

JACKAZZFLATZ wrote:Around here it's usually acorns. And my engine was on the stand.

Thanks for the heads up, I'm covering my ports right when the heads go on since you said that. I saw a black mouse in the garage not too long ago, so now I have to watch where I step

No rat yet, I'm going to pull the header off and take a look. I would like to find a boreoscope to look through the plug hole into the cylinder to see if any of that crap is still in there. I've got the plugs back in and the rocker arms backed off so they can only go as far as the header for now. My luck the little dude is mangled up between the valve and the seat.

BigDave65 wrote:No rat yet, I'm going to pull the header off and take a look. I would like to find a boreoscope to look through the plug hole into the cylinder to see if any of that crap is still in there. I've got the plugs back in and the rocker arms backed off so they can only go as far as the header for now. My luck the little dude is mangled up between the valve and the seat.

Only one way to find out

fire it up! it'll come out.

Thats crazy never seen that before either

BigDave65 wrote:No rat yet, I'm going to pull the header off and take a look. I would like to find a boreoscope to look through the plug hole into the cylinder to see if any of that crap is still in there. I've got the plugs back in and the rocker arms backed off so they can only go as far as the header for now. My luck the little dude is mangled up between the valve and the seat.

Plug an air hose in that cyl. and see if it holds air

cool40 wrote:fire it up! it'll come out.

X2

He'll come out all right... at 90mph with his tail on fire like a bullet through the shop. So does this mean you have a big block rat motor?

4thHorseman wrote:He'll come out all right... at 90mph with his tail on fire like a bullet through the shop. So does this mean you have a big block rat motor?

He's got a rat rod, that ought to be the nick name of it. Then you have a story to tell people.

The rat rod .. me likes

tHE NERF WOULD PROBALY BE LIKE A POTATO GUN ,AND BLOW A HOLE RIGHT IN THE GARAGE WALL,LOL