Recommendations For Winter Prepping

Discussion in 'The Bench' started by Brett Slater, Nov 11, 2017.

  1. STAGE III

    STAGE III Lost Experimental 455-4 Bolt Main Block.

    Yes, and the right cat can double as security! You may have issues getting your car back but nothing a tranquilizer rifle can't clear up most of the time though if yer fast


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  2. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    Brett put snuggle Dryer sheets outside of car or in engine bay. Trunk, and interior. When mice or pack rats try to make a nest. They will go to dryer sheets. Once they get that stuff on their paws. They will leave. And not come back. Bag of charcoal in back seat. Not marchlight. Just plain charcoal. Don't put mice poison down they all may go hide in car together. That smell. Mice trap with peanut butter best. Caught (4) mice this week near my car. Little buggers
     
  3. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    If they are pack rats. Make sure NO dog food in garage. My wife's Ford Flex . They filled exhaust with dog food. Imagine that smell. On the side of the highway on fire
     
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  4. Mike Trom

    Mike Trom Platinum Level Contributor

    Mine is parked on a plastic sheet to keep condensation away. Zest soap bars from the $1 store are broke into 1/3 pieces and put in the passenger compartment and trunk. Dryer sheets in the same areas. pull the negative battery cable off. Full tank of 91 octane no ethanol gas with Stabil added. No cover on the car because the one year I found mouse turds between the cover and my convertible top. Plenty of mouse traps spread through out the garage (20+) baited with hard salami, the hard salami makes them pull on it. This is in an unheated separate garage with almost no foot traffic in the winter. So far I have caught 2 mice in the garage attic an had one trap snap with a blood trail leading away from it.

    I stopped using decon because the mice just moved it and made little piles everywhere.
     
  5. Bluzilla

    Bluzilla a.k.a. "THE DOCTOR"

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    UPDATE! I just started on a '84 Corvette that is a good repeat customer's car. This time around I'm swapping out his original short block for a 396 small block stroker along with adding a Tremic TKO-600 and Dana 44. So I begin by taking off the throttle body bonnet just to find...... you got it... mouse junk on top of his Victor Air-Gap intake manifold. The stuff was strune from the front, all the way back to the distributor. Then When I got to pulling the original Doug Nash 4+3 overdrive manual transmission, I needed to remove the drivers seat so I can make the necessary modifications to the trans tunnel and under his seat there was more mouse junk! I'm beginning to believe that more than half of the older cars I get in here have some form of mouse inhabitants.
    When I had my upholstery guy in the shop installing the new headliner in that '67 Chevelle I asked him to take a look at my Skylark's headliner because it was a tad bit loose at one of the sail panels. He called me over to the car and asked if I wanted a new headliner while he was at it because there was a hole chewed above the shoulder harness. I thought he was messing with me but..... he wasn't. At least the belt covers it for now and we didn't find any other trace of them. That's the, ..... what happens when you take customer cars into the shop that have been stored for a while. You take the risk of bringing them in.



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  6. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    I'm getting a car bag. And laying down traps. And all the other mouse deterrents.

    Screw that!!
     
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  7. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    I guess the title of this thread should have read: "Winterizing Against Rodents"
     
  8. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    Never any problems with mice or rodents?
     
  9. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    Hah! Correctomungo! Glue sticky traps good too
     
  10. Doo Wop

    Doo Wop Where were you in '62?

    Brett

    They are made from a Tyvek material, rodents can't get past that. Nary a problem.
     
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  11. superlark

    superlark Guest

    I found they sell peppermint oil at marshall's now.
    Smells good any everything hates it. All kinds of critters. Spiders, rodents, etc. Dirt cheap. Like $3.
     
  12. YoDesigner

    YoDesigner 69 Skylark

    The car bag sounds great. But after reading about it on their website, you cant have any leaks which makes since.... My Skylark leaks about 1gal of trans fluid when stored so I guess I will keep storing the way I always do. That being, fill the tank with gas (no stabilizer), disconnect the battery and put the car cover on. Been doing it this way for decades. I bought my nylon car cover in the late 80's and it still does a good job (its starting to show its age). I also put bait traps to keep the mice/rats away in the detached garage. Plenty of feral cats in the neighborhood also help. Oh and put one big drip pan to catch most of that fluid. I might add the dryer sheets next time, but I like the way my car smells as-is.... like an old book.
     
  13. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    It would be a miracle if any of our cars didn't have some type of leak somewhere.

    Isn't that why God created cardboard? :D
     
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  14. superlark

    superlark Guest

    that's ludicrous. are they afraid on spontaneous combustion?
     
  15. FLAME ORANGE GS

    FLAME ORANGE GS Founders Club Member

    i have never had a problem with leaks. i just put a old towel down under my dads vette motor and trans first.
     
  16. white72gs455

    white72gs455 Going Fast With Class!!!

    upload_2017-11-15_8-11-3.jpeg I use these and never have a problem, I just park it in a tempered garage. (40 degrees when not in use, heat goes up when I work out there)
     
  17. PGBuick

    PGBuick Well-Known Member

    Car bags are awesome and well worth the reasonable cost.
     
  18. MYBUICKS

    MYBUICKS Well-Known Member

    Brett, I store 125 cars during the winter and 50-60 or so during the remainder of the year in my Seekonk Car Storage business. There are suggestions on my site for winter storage. We never have mice in our building but you need to be proactive and prevent them from finding a home. Lots of good suggestions from the Buick guys. Glue traps with peanut butter work good and we use dryer sheets. Never a problem. Winter storage has not caused any problems in the fuel of any of our storage vehicles unless the fuel was old when the car arrived at our place. A fresh tank of fuel (including ethanol fuel) along with stabilizer will be fine for the winter. I don't like starting the engines weekly/monthly in cool weather because it's a sure way to rot out your exhaust system quickly due to condensation after you shut it off. Moisture is the number one enemy for any vehicle in storage. It does more damage than rodents. I have a car bag you can have..
     
  19. Brett Slater

    Brett Slater Super Moderator Staff Member

    Thank you, sir!

    I'll text you this week. Looks like our Buick get together is on hold until next year. My unexpected coolant leak made sure of that.

    Thanks again!
     
  20. scubasteve455

    scubasteve455 Well-Known Member

    Good to hear others use dryer sheets. People think I'm crazy.
     

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