<VV> From: [Vintage-race] Power Loss - Mice

[BBRT]

>From the vintage racing list...  applicable to Corvairs and our mice 
problems of stored cars.
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From: "Gerald Brazil" <gerrybraz at cablespeed.com>
Subject: Re: [Vintage-race] Power Loss


> As long as this is getting into a "True Confessions", I have one more to
> add.
>
> Back when I was racing a Vintage Vee I took the car out of the storage 
> barn
> in spring and did all the usual pre race prep. Went out to practice and
> found during practice that oil temp was skyrocketing. I came in and 
> started
> checking things out. For those of you not familiar with Vintage Vees, they
> have to use a fan and a shroud. Anyway, when I got to checking I found 
> that
> a rather extended family of mice had built a really luxurious townhouse in
> my fan shroud. I demolished the home, the tenants having already fled (was
> it my driving?), changed the oil and everything was fine.
>
> I later cut two rectangular holes in the fan shroud and fitted them with
> removable rubber plug (Spridget transmission tunnel) so I could pull the
> plugs and see if the mice had decided to take up residence again. Those 
> plug
> always brought questions during tech. I told the inspectors that they were
> Mouse House Inspection Ports.