Found a mouse/rat nest on my intake manifold!

So I'm pulling out the drain plug after our session today and notice a bunch of trash on my intake manifold next to my carb. I'm like "what the hell?" upon closer inspection it appeared to be a mouse/rodent nest made out of straw and trash! It was about five inches in diameter, I wish I had my digi w/me. It amazes me how it could get under the dog house and climb all the way up my engine multiple times carrying nest supplies.

I have no idea how it got way up there, I take my boat out at least three days per week. I keep my cover on the ground where I keep my boat so I'm thinking it may have been in there when I threw the cover on last.

Any idea on how to get rid of this rodent on my boat?? Anybody else experience anything else like this?? Pretty nuts.

(Message edited by parkcityxj on September 01, 2004)

Try a Mouse Trap

lay dryer sheets in the boat and in the blower vents.

put a bait tray in there

Your lucky it didn't eat up your wires. My buddy had one eat up his wires in his Escalade while it was in the garage. Cost him $500.

yeah, the better question is where did the mouse get the nest supplies?

I bet he didn't climb out of the boat and run off to the nearest field! You had better look around inside the boat and see if things are okay.

As for moving pests with the cover: I have the opposite problem. I keep the boat a hundred feet from the launch ramp. I arrive, take the cover off and put it in the car. After a weekend of boating I put the boat away, take the cover out of the car and put it back on the boat. Except now I have spiders in the car.......


Rod

Mice can come in through your exhaust flapper...be sure to check and make sure you don't have a hole in the muffler or tubing that runs to the back of the boat.

Eric

Haha reminds me of when I had an old I/O I found a similar nest under the folding rear deck where the bimini was stored. The bimini was all torn up to make the nest but I never found him.

Then when I went out the following weekend we were under way when were heard a huge screech and the motor died-- I was certain the thing got scared and jumped up into the fan belts!

Turned out the lower unit had seized up but it was still great for some good laughs while we were stranded-- talking about how the rat had got what he deserved for tearing all our stuff up.

I had a kangaroo rat fill my air cleaner box entirely with dry dog food, Ran like cra-. Buy poison. Put it where your pet's cant get to it. It work's great, but when they die they stink for week's.

i had this problem on my mustang that i do not drive over the winter ,ate up some wires and also made a nest,what works is to put mothballs aroundin your garage and or in the boat they do not like the smell and it does work.

you didnt happen to get a picture of this did you?