Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 07:55:00 -0500
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From: Mark Upton <vwmark@CONCENTRIC.NET>
Subject: Re: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
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I reciently read in the National Enquirer that the suicide rate among mice
has soared a wopping 200%.What's going on with these mice?And why are they
picking Vanagons?
-----Original Message-----
From: Darrell Boehler <midwesty@MIDWEST.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 1999 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
>Hi Daryl,
> I had the exact same thing happen to me several years ago. They make
one
>terrible stink. They can get into the vents, heater, defroster from the
>front. If you remove the upper grill and check on the outer left and right
>side edges of the fresh air scoop there is a slit along each out edge.
>There is no easy way to get them out of there. The first step in gaining
>access to the front heater is to remove the dash. Look at section 80 in the
>bentley book it has a bit of info there. If you are going to remove the
>vent / heater system I would get an new set of flap seals for the vent,
>heater, and defroster flaps.
>
>Darrell Boehler
>
>
>Ps. we will need to go camping some day with Larry Johnson so we can do a
>Daryl, Darrell, and Larry routine.
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daryl Jorud <djorud@PRTEL.COM>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 8:50 PM
>Subject: Dead mouse in vanagon heater - which Bentley or who can help?
>
>
>> Drat! Some rodent, probably a mouse, has gotten into the front
>> heater core area of my 86 GL and given up the ghost. As the odor is
>> anything but pleasant, something has to be done about it, and fast.
Where
>> do these little guys get in? Isn't this unit supposed to be screened off
>so
>> that little beasts don't crawl in? I have tried taking some of the air
>> ducting off under the dash panel, but I can't find the dead critter. I
>have
>> the 80 to 87 Bentley manual, but it has absolutely nothing in regard to
>> disassembling this unit. Only has heater info on the air cooled early
>> vanagons and the diesel, nothing in regard to waterboxer heaters. Does
>the
>> later issue(s) of the Bentley manual have this information? I'm amazed
>that
>> the 80-87 does not. OR, can someone give me some tips on an easy way to
>> solve this stinky situation? From what I can see, this job is going to
>take
>> several hours once I get the instructions of what to do first, second,
>> third........... Thanks very much for help from anyone who has faced
this
>> kind of a stinky mess.
>>
>> Daryl Jorud
>> Battle Lake, MN
>> 86 GL
>> 85 Double-cab
>> 83 Rabbit convert.
>> 82 Rabbit pkp
>>
>
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