Mice a trailer wiring.

[dodge man]

So I have had problems with mice building nests in the boxes that hold my trailer tail lights. I believe it was someone on this forum who said pack them with steel wool. I did this a few years ago and can say it works.

A separate question. My trailer has bearing buddies. I thought one of my wheels had a little to much play. It looks like you just work the bearing buddy side to side with a block of wood and a hammer to get it off?

 

[drizler]

So I have had problems with mice building nests in the boxes that hold my trailer tail lights. I believe it was someone on this forum who said pack them with steel wool. I did this a few years ago and can say it works.

A separate question. My trailer has bearing buddies. I thought one of my wheels had a little to much play. It looks like you just work the bearing buddy side to side with a block of wood and a hammer to get it off?

A block of wood and 2 lb hammer is how I do it. Back and forth a couple times. Back on using the same wood and hammer. Peppermint essential oil in a sprayer bottle mixed with water is shat many say works under car hoods. I’ve used that and mothballs. They hate the stink.

 

[Oaktree]

So I have had problems with mice building nests in the boxes that hold my trailer tail lights. I believe it was someone on this forum who said pack them with steel wool. I did this a few years ago and can say it works.

A separate question. My trailer has bearing buddies. I thought one of my wheels had a little to much play. It looks like you just work the bearing buddy side to side with a block of wood and a hammer to get it off?

What is a bearing buddy? Never heard the term before. Every trailer I've ever had the bearings were in the hub.

As far as mice, lotsa luck. I haven't found anything that consistently works. Peppermint oil not at all, mothballs sometimes, but not always. Someone on a classic car forum suggested charcoal briquettes. Never tried them.
I suppose if you have a cavity they nest in the steel wool trick will work (as long as it doesn't short out the wiring), as well as to block entry points.
Best solution I've found is a cat.

 

[bcp]

Genuine Bearing Buddy



Bruce

 

[drizler]

What is a bearing buddy? Never heard the term before. Every trailer I've ever had the bearings were in the hub.

As far as mice, lotsa luck. I haven't found anything that consistently works. Peppermint oil not at all, mothballs sometimes, but not always. Someone on a classic car forum suggested charcoal briquettes. Never tried them.
I suppose if you have a cavity they nest in the steel wool trick will work (as long as it doesn't short out the wiring), as well as to block entry points.
Best solution I've found is a cat.

Nuts on the cat I致e got 4 of them . There like the cops never there when you need them. If I was gonna go Steel well I壇 avoid the rust by using stainless pads. At least they don稚 rust. Don稚 discount peppermint oils just because someone says it doesn稚 work. The truth is there痴 no one answer but peppermint spray happens to be the best one for most vermin. Spray em monthly or more.
Mice are like people some will and some won稚 so you gotta experiment. I found that simple spring traps work well. You won稚 get em all but you値l definitely thin the herd plenty and fast. Bait with peanut butter, they love it. If you go traps buy the American Victors. The Chicom brands are a lot harder to set and like to go off setting them down. Keep at it and soon things will settle down . Just don稚 think that spells time to Fully quit . Mice are relentless but so are we.

 

[oosik]

I have taken an "average" sized pill bottle - drilled small holes all around the bottle. Packed it full of cotton - saturated the cotton with peppermint essential oil. One in the glove box - one in the engine compartment. It helps- but nothing is 100%.

So far, after 18 months on the new pickup(Taco Wagon) - - none in the passenger compartment. Occasionally - a chipmunk eating seeds while sitting on top of the battery.

What might also be helping. When I park the pickup - I always make sure the vent opening to outside air for the heater is CLOSED. I know it should be screened - but one never knows about those things. I park the pickup right next to the house. The mice seem to dislike this proximity. The munks don't give a hoot.

Parked out away from the house - in the carport - everything enjoyed the comforts of the engine compartment. Once even a small green frog and once a garter snake.

A person could make a fortune if something was developed that was truly 100%, all the time.

 

[thclimer]

A person could make a fortune if something was developed that was truly 100%, all the time.

How true, you would be a trillion-air many times over if you could develop something that worked and could get a patented on it!

 

[CADplans]

When I inspected cars in the 1960's, we had to remove those caps to get the drum off to look at the brakes,,

We used a pair of VERY large ChannelLock pliers,,
Grab the cap, press down, rotate the tire 1/4 turn, grab the cap, press down,,

Usually on about the 4th "press down", the cap would come off,, no hammer needed,,

 

[dodge man]

I loosened the cap with a hammer and board and then used the channel locks. I can see by the pictures mine are a generic bearing buddy. Mine isn’t spring loaded.

So far packing the the trailer light boxes with steel wool seems to be working. The steel wool had been in there a while and wasn’t as rusty as I thought.

 

[oldballs]

I don't know if it will apply here, but I have been spraying Fluid Film on attachments and the trailer where the wasps build nests............sometimes to my stinging surprise. That seems to work. Maybe it would inhibit mice as well in certain situations.

Cheers,
Mike