Minnie_Collector
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Well we were getting the MH ready to hit the road on Monday, started the engine to put the slides out and the smell of gas hit me. Having been down this road recently, I knew immediately what the problem was. The squirrels chewed the fuel line just like they did on my dinghy acouple of months ago.
Unfortunately, the Ford dealer is closed on Saturdays and the local NAPA does not carry fuel lines so I have to wait until Monday to see how this is gonna get fixed. Since I have nothing to do but worry about this latest problem, I was wondering if you guys had any advice or had experienced something similar. Do you believe I can just splice the fuel line or is that a no-no. I can't get into the upper end of where the fuel line connects because of all the wires and stuff but I can, maybe, reach the bottom part to splice it. If it has to go to the dealer, do you think a regular Ford dealer can fix it or will it have to go to a big truck dealer to fix. Are the fuel lines custom formed or is it just a standard fuel line that is cut to length?
It sucks to have something happen 2 days before a trip but it's especially bad when you can't get hold of anyone until Monday. I am at my wits end with these squirrels. Any good solutions to getting rid of them. Mothballs in the engine compartment did not work.
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I don't know how to fix the MH but the squirrels----They ate a hole in my Saturns gas line, then the Isuzu. Enough already--22 rifle, 7 dead squirrels, and I ate THEM. End of problem and a good meal to boot.
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"Mothballs in the engine compartment did not work"
Didn't work for me either. I had the tree rats getting into the engine and eating the wiring. Insurance took care of it the first time, I was on my own the second. The only thing I found that worked was a spray bottle of 40% water 40% Texas Pete (or the hot sauce of your choice) and 20% dish washing soap. The soap makes it sticky and it adheres to their feet, they lick it off and the hot sauce gets them. WARNING
it's corrosive. Made the block look like it had been flooded. Discolored, and pitted. but it works. Perhaps if you could spray around the area and the ground underneath it might work.
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QUICK get a bomb that works on them. It worked for the raccoons on the movie rv.
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I agree with the .22, not sure what the area you live in is like but around here these pests get into EVERYTHING! The red squirrels are worse and chipmunks nearly as pesty. I didn't eat them but the .22 made quick work of a half-dozen on a lazy afternoon on the deck. If you can't shoot them your options are limited to have-a-heart traps and poison.
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Yeah, people seem to think squirrels are cute and some people feed them. But they are rodents, just like rats, and just as big a nuisance, IMHO.
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So the fuel line is hard piped? I think you could splice it with rubber line and a couple clamps to get you by. Just make sure it can take the pressure. Not 100% sure so maybe someone else will chime in.
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Set several live animal traps. Catch them. Up to you what you do with them after. Some people shoot them, some will throw them in a small pond till they drown, others will drive them off many miles and release them.
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Thanks for letting me know moth balls don't work, I've thrown a bunch under the TT hoping it would keep away racoons and squirrels. We have turtles that roam the neighborhood so I hate to poison the turtles. Maybe put the poison up in the tree?
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Minnie_Collector
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jamstoyz wrote:So the fuel line is hard piped? I think you could splice it with rubber line and a couple clamps to get you by. Just make sure it can take the pressure. Not 100% sure so maybe someone else will chime in.
I wish it had been hard piped - maybe those bloody squirrels wouldn't have chewed it. 
I'm kinda leary of splicing it because the leak is right over top the headers and when I started it up, the gas went all over the headers. Luckily they weren't hot because I am worried of fire.
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