Just wondering who else may have had a similiar incident.

I'm walking thru the lot to my truck at lunch and I am hearing a rather loud clicking sound from somewhere, just hoping its not my truck. I get to my truck and yes its clicking very loudly with a nice burnt metal smell from underneath. I pop the hood and theres a huge friggin' squirrel chewing on my wiring harness ! It apparently didnt care I was there staring at it so I had to scream at it to get it to leave. Well apparently the starter was clicking for a few hours because of this nasty creature and who knows what else got fried/shorted.

Anybody else have a similiar story? What got fried ? What did it take to fix it?

Dale <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />

Yep...I just replaced the spark plug wires on my Ford Probe (no, I'm still not embarassed about owning a Probe) which were partially eaten by either squirrels or mice. That's actually a pretty common thing up here in the mountains -- especially in winter.

I've heard that if you smash up urnal pucks and place them around where you park, it will deter the rodents. A friend of mine tried it after his new Volvo got chewed up. He said he never had that problem again.

Heh, heh, a couple of years ago, I was living in the top floor of a very nice victorian house. Built in like 1890. Well, every once in a while you could actually hear the squirrels in the kneewall area. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

Had to go up in the attic and install an FM antennae one day. As I was crawling over the insulation and rafters I felt this PAINFUL buzzing in my hand! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> Drew my hand back quickly and focused the flashlight near the area. You got it right, <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" /> squirrels had chewed off the entire insulative wrapper on BOTH wires!! Great. I also discovered that this was not the only area that they had struck.

Rewired using metal shielded romex, and...let's just say that the neighborhood experienced a squirrel population collapse. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/mrt.gif" alt="" /> (They drew first blood. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/baby.gif" alt="" />)

When I go back there and park, luckily, they've left my Trooper alone.

Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

We had the problem of squirrels in my dads old Buicks....

3 years ago we solved that problem...





with my Ruger 10/22 semi-auto squirrel annihilator with stainless steel barrel and full oak stock....oh...and after the assault weapons ban was taken away, a 30 round bananna clip, just for kicks.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
-J <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />