Also speaking of mice....when I bought my 66 Double Cab it had sat in a field for a year without an engine. I put in an engine got the rest of the equipment working and had me a nice little vehicle for about $300 (1973 $$). One nice fall day, I turned on the heat. Although the heater pipes were all intact, I was getting a trickle of heat into the lower heater vents. After about half an hour or so of driving, not much heat was comming in...but I was getting a rather pungent odor. After returning home that evening I put the DC in the garage, crawled under it and checked the pipes, still nothing seemed to indicate any problem. So I disconected one of the flex pipes and ran a plumber's snake down into the heater pipe... Out came a mouse nest and some rather "baked" dead-for-a-while mice.
Sort of the mouse version of Monty Python's Dead Bishop on the Landing sketch...do you have a Double Cab without so much mouse in it? :-) Ric Whats for dessert? Rat Tart!
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