Why my little diesel tractor was running lousy

My little Bolens/ISEKI diesel tractor started belching black smoke a couple months ago, so I figured it was the fuel injectors. Wrong. We have been overrun by little furry beasts call chipmunks this year. I pulled the air filter - and this is what I found:

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Yes, those are two furry bodies. Now I have to find a new air filter for this orphan tractor

I think that means it's going to be a rough winter :LOL:

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Originally Posted by green34ford

I think that means it's going to be a rough winter :LOL:

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Isn't that if they see their tail sticking out of the filter**)

last year i started having pure hell with my blasting rig. damn thing just would not work right no matter what i did. i change media , adjusted air did everything i could think of. fought it for most of the year. then we decided the media valve was worn out or something so i tore it down to replace. this is what i found. in all there were 3 mummified mice in the bottom of the valve. made it really hard to adjust .i now have a screen over the hopper .

Chipmunks, crazy but I never ever saw a chipmunk in my lifetime around here except for ALVIN on saturday mornings :) But in the last couple of years they are everywhere. And its not unusual to find signs of em in at least 1 or 2 vehicles per day that come through my shop. At least they are cute little buggars.:LOL:

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Originally Posted by HWORRELL

Chipmunks, crazy but I never ever saw a chipmunk in my lifetime around here except for ALVIN on saturday mornings :) But in the last couple of years they are everywhere. And its not unusual to find signs of em in at least 1 or 2 vehicles per day that come through my shop. At least they are cute little buggars.:LOL:

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Yeah, they're cute until they start nibbling on the wire insulation when their food of choice becomes scarce.....

Hope the Humane Society don't see that, Dave, :p:LOL:

I had to remove a little "meese" for the squirrel cage in my Nissan PU this summer. He had just barely started stinking when I located him. Thank God I didn't close the cab and not drive it for a week, which I do very often.

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Originally Posted by rspears

Yeah, they're cute until they start nibbling on the wire insulation when their food of choice becomes scarce.....

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Cute - No way!!!
Oh yeah - they destroyed an $800 reefer in a camper plus ate through a wall, ate the insulation off the tractor's glow plugs, have eaten spark plug wires on my truck, ruined a 100' electric extension cord, have nibbled on a hose nozzle just to name a few things. One positive - they do aerate the yard with their holes:CRY: I own a Hav-A-Heart trap and "transport" them, as many as 6 one day this past summer.

I do have a nice recipe for chipmunk chile if anyone is interested, compliments of Mello Yello:3dSMILE:

Yup.I know, our worst problem with chewed wiring around here seems to be with squirrels. I'd have never dreamed that untill after doing several chewed wire repairs and talking to customers several of em reported watching squirrels run in and out from under their cars the same day they had to have em towed in. But it is a common fo us to find nests from mice or chipmunks in air cleaners and heater blower squirrel cages.

I usefdto have a mouse problem, until this little almost Feral cat showed up.. I befriended her, got her "neutralized" and started feeding her... when I started seeing food left in the bowl, I cut the portions back just enough to keep her a TINY bit hungry...
Now I just have to pick up the heads and entrails, they usually don't live long enough to cause any damage...