Mouse nest by intake manifold?

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embe

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Popped the engine cover off to size up air intake piping, looked like a friggin mouse had made a home under there.

Grabbed gloves and started digging all the crap out with a screwdriver, found some type of a paper liner that looks intentional. No way it's a gasket between the intake and block area on these cars?

It's on both sides and would have made nice for a nice engine fire. Here's a pic after I dug most of the stuff out from one side


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Something died inside my engine compartment one time and I couldn't find it anywhere, but believe me I could smell it when I put the air on lol
 
Dude....... That looks to be intentional on someones part. Mice nest are loose. Someone stuffed that chit in there. I think a fire was the idea here. All that crap under the plenum cover. Awfully suspicious.:shifty:


Did you see or find any droppings? If not, I would be watching my LS a lot closer.:shifty:
 
RollinLS said:
Dude....... That looks to be intentional on someones part. Mice nest are loose. Someone stuffed that chit in there. I think a fire was the idea here. All that crap under the plenum cover. Awfully suspicious.:shifty:


Did you see or find any droppings? If not, I would be watching my LS a lot closer.:shifty:
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I agree. I have seen mice nests and they use anything and everything for a nest, not just one product. Seems to me someone doesn't like you. I got two squirrel nest in my huge oak tree out front, and they put it together with everything except the kitchen sink, i.e. cig butts, plastic, leaves, etc. Time to set some booby traps. I've have to do it before.
 
The "secret stash" under the intake is a noise dampener - foam inside a plastic liner, about 1.5" thick. It just lays in there.
 
RollinLS said:
Dude....... That looks to be intentional on someones part. Mice nest are loose. Someone stuffed that chit in there. I think a fire was the idea here. All that crap under the plenum cover. Awfully suspicious.:shifty:


Did you see or find any droppings? If not, I would be watching my LS a lot closer.:shifty:
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Someone who has access to the inside hood release.
 
LS4me said:
Someone who has access to the inside hood release.
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You don't need access to the inside hood release to pop the hood.:shifty:


Don't believe me. Ask MrHowie.:lol:
 
It almost looks like someone put some insulation next to the coolant hoses to keep them warmer? Have you taken your car to get serviced any where recently?
 
Getting me all paranoid! lol There were sunflower seeds, peanut shells and other crap down near the block once I got it all cleared out. Must have been mice or a chipmunk, car has sat in the garage a couple weeks at a time recently.

What is up with the "foam inside plastic liner" noise damper down in there too? That's what threw me off cause I've seen that type of packing before in a padded envelope (lot of stuff shipped) and thought it was an entire padded envelope stuffed down between the intake and block.
 
This is hilarious I had a smaller glob like this in that same spot from a mouse or something. Must be prime real estate
 
embe said:
Getting me all paranoid! lol There were sunflower seeds, peanut shells and other crap down near the block once I got it all cleared out. Must have been mice or a chipmunk, car has sat in the garage a couple weeks at a time recently.

What is up with the "foam inside plastic liner" noise damper down in there too? That's what threw me off cause I've seen that type of packing before in a padded envelope (lot of stuff shipped) and thought it was an entire padded envelope stuffed down between the intake and block.
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If your finding seeds and whatnot. Then it probably was a mouse or something. Just wierd to see an animal make a nest in the enginebay. The trunk and interior(glovebox) are more common.
 
Haha thats happen to me on my second car it sits outside and i went to go start one day after a year or so and saw the same chit down by the headlights.
 
That 'insulation' is part pf the hood blanket. Torn off by some small 'critter' to make a nice little nest.

KS
 
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