Mouse nest

grandpa Love · Jul 26, 2022

Bought this cub cadet a while back, it will end up at our son's house. Had to put a carb and throttle cable on it. Tried to start it the other day and the starter stuck. Noticed some pink insulation stuck in the starter drive. We pulled off the shields and found a huge mouse nest. Really packed in , all around and down the sides. Nearly a five gallon bucket full. Glad we hadn't run it much!

SweetFeet · Jul 26, 2022

Annoying little vermin! Mice cost me a tow and a car repair last year.

Tony in SD · Jul 26, 2022

We know where the mouse put the insulation but where the mouse got the insulation might be the bigger question.

grandpa Love · Jul 26, 2022

Thank goodness it was like that when we got it ...... No insulation in my barn or shop!

Geo-TH,In · Jul 26, 2022

A friend parked mower in a barn where mice would do the same thing. I had to put hardware screen over the mower to keep the mouse out..

Grass will do the same thing.

Good idea to clean cooling fins..

PJH · Jul 26, 2022

I have an old homemade air compressor. I turned it on a few weeks ago and saw a mouse and a bunch of trash fly out of an opening on the end of the motor. I fished a lot of it out - it looked like chewed up pieces of a blue shop towel.

Oregon Tractor Jack · Jul 26, 2022

Yup had the same problem. Mower parked in the horse barn. Mowed for the first time one year. On the second mow, the mower was back firing and running really bad. Had a mouse nest in the cooling fins. Over heated the engine and popped a valve seat out. Last time I parked it in the barn. I inspect the mower every year when the mowing season starts.

OTJ

Eric in IL · Jul 26, 2022

If I was a mouse, I'd have to be homeless if the only construction materials available were fiberglass.

Two years in a row the vermin ate the insulation off a coil wire on a Honda small engine over the Winter. Now I remove the shroud every Winter. They sure cause many headaches.

DMartin9N-2N · Jul 26, 2022

Good morning, all: I have a Deere 212 lawn/garden tractor with 12 HP Kohler. Mice found their way in through a broken "grass screen" on the outside of the flywheel. Found a lot of trash in housing above flywheel, also some went into the passageway that supplies air to the air cleaner on carburetor. The air cleaner junk was my first hint of trouble. I almost wish I had barn cats again!
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Dennis M. in W. Tenn.
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Richard G. · Jul 26, 2022

My Dad's old Craftsman mower sat in my barn a few years.
Took forever to clean all that stuff out of the fins.
Glad I looked before cranking it.
It has been back in the barn about 15 more years since then.
The deck on it is more weld than deck.

dpendzic · Jul 26, 2022

that looks like my Polaris snowmobile engine a couple of years ago SIL took it out with out checking and seized the engine--$1400 later fixed it

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