travisc wrote:

The wife, kids and I were camping on 7/3 in the Olympic Peninsula, Hoh Rainforest campground this week- we were use the RV heater set to about 65- as it was a bit chilly/wet early this week, when sometime around 6:30 in the morning something started grinding horribly- the noise was coming from the area of furnace- so I grabbed a flash light and pulled the fuse. Noise- stopped. After deciding it would be a waste to go back to bed I grabbed the tools and started into the furnace- this was my second adventure there because early in the season the furnance didn't work- after tearing it all apart I discovered it was bad contacts on the thermostat- so I have a rough idea how to take it apart-.

I remove the cover around the blower motor as I figured that is what was a making the noise- after the cover came off I found the problem-

MOUSE-

Somehow the mouse had timed getting in the fan cage right about the time the blower kicked in- needless to say this wasn't a gerbil wheel. After picking out the remains a for about 20 mins and 1/2 pack of wipes later I discovered feet, tail and bones in various stages of drying, and disposing of the corpse- I put everything back together and it works fine- I have never had a mouse problem much less one get into the furnace.

I don't recall where the air intake from the inside the RV is to the furnace box- but I did find droppings on the chairs that were left outside the RV- I am wondering if he might have jumped from the chair to the exhaust/intake ports? still baffles me- but I will get some rodent tap and some covers for the exhaust ports just to be safe this week.

I just wanted to share another interesting story since I have read so many other here.