What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

♫ Red So-lo cup
You fix my truck
So that I can get to work-y ♫

 

Changed out my cabin air filter and found a pile of what looks like insulation on top of it. I thought it could be rodents but the filter was dirty but otherwise intact, not chewed up, and the insulation was clean with no poop anywhere to be found. I don't remember driving through any loose insulation that could have gotten sucked up into the intake but that's the only other idea I've got.

 

My truck got stuck the next day after i bought it.
Brought it home washed it. Came out to go to work and it wouldn't move.
Had to grab the E-brake lines and shake them and hit the rear drums with a hammer to get it to move.
Never used that shit again.Temp was in the upper 60's that morning, so mine was caused from me washing it.

 

That looks like the insulation from under the carpet.

 

Don't shit where you eat. Critters follow those rules, too. Something put that there and I'd be keeping a very close eye on your wiring. Maybe consider pepper sprays or similar to defend against them.

 

Yeah I'm thinking the same thing. Maybe the insulation isn't actually from your vehicle but from a nearby one?

 

I might be biased, but I think I have the best looking thing back in the garage. My hood now matches the rest of my truck, got it back from the body shop last week!

 

Forget the truck, I want your big garage.

 

My money is on a rodent!
For that to have come from outside? The truck could get covered/buried with insulation and the AC on high, and it still wouldn't suck that much insulation into the vent system. Filter looks dirty and the insulation looks recent. Something put it there.
Check up in your foot wells to see if insulation is missing by the edges of the floor liner.

 

Work warehouse, we don't use it for anything but storing toys and winter parking.

 

I figured it was a given that a rodent put that there. Agreed, there is zero chance that insulation got there any other way.

 

I'd be freakin' on that only because I have seen rodents completely total very nice trucks, and the scariest was my friend/neighbor was a hotshot electrical systems guru at my local Ford. I was in his bay to chat with him about something he was going to do for me on one of my F450 Forestry trucks. He was working on a BRAND NEW F350 King Ranch dually with no license plate yet...that kind of new. They had him replacing THE ENTIRE factory wire harness in the truck because it was eaten by mice throughout the entire truck. It came in far enough under the $75k+ price of the truck at the time.

I would have traded that puppy in the day they presented it finished!

 

You have something in there............... Check under your cowl, it is where they enter. Here is a pic of mine where it chewed thru the cheap ass fix Toyota did. Other gens did not even have a screen.

 

Thanks, I went and took a better look at the discarded filter and found some mouse poop down in the folds of it. We had some mice in the garage where I keep it a few months back, I trapped them and haven't seen any signs in a while. I'll have to pop the cowl and check this, thanks!

 

hit 15k miles...and got stuck after sliding in the mud down a hill on the street tires toyota put on the truck

 

I looked up in the foot wells and can't see any missing, could be way up where I can't see it though.

Hopefully the little bugger is dead by now. I didn't notice anything off (wires chewed, nesting materials) in the engine bay and nothing in the air box but I'm gonna take a reeeeeal close look now to make sure.

 

RockyMounts Driveshaft Track's installed last night. Finally time to start using the truck to take the mtb's out.

 

I had rat poop on my engine shroud the other day and saw the claw marks where the little shit climbed up the rad hoses.

Their lives are not important to me, but I also don't want to draw added attention from them with baited traps. Any tried and true suggestions from the peanut gallery?

Unfortunately eliminating the source of rats isn't doable since there is a homeless lady here with two rat infested cars parked in the street (yay PNW...)