Rodent ate my fuel line... Then something else happened.

[Midniteoyl]

So, started the car, got about 50 feet down the drive and started smelling fuel. Looked and this is what I found:



Then, on my way to the parts store, this happened:



And, to top it all off, while airing up the (very big) spare, I went to check the other front and found a split valve stem!!




Ya, Im having a great day

 

[3930dave]

You should be good for a while now, that's a lot of bad karma for one day....

Never seen a line like that - alcoholic rats after the ethanol ? Weird.

Have a better one tomorrow.

Rgds, D.

 

[brin]

They say it comes in 3's....bad news and events...so you should be good to go now...Buy a lottery ticket. :thumbsup:

 

[k0ua]

We seem to be having a rash of rats/squirrels eating gas tanks and fuel lines... what is with rodents now days?

 

[Midniteoyl]

Dunno.. what happened to simple wire chewing?

 

[3930dave]

Modern vehicles use too little fuel.

Big Oil has bio-engineered zombie-fuel-line-eating rats.

Rgds, D.

 

[Stimw]

Been there, done that!! (no T shirt)
I was leaving my property and smelled gas, looked under my truck and gas was spraying onto the muffler!!
I had to remove the PU bed for access.

 

[ruffdog]

It looks like the rodent was also chewing on the white tank near the hose. I also had a rodent chew right through the plastic fuel tank of my wood splitter! Crazy! Just crazy!

 

[ustmd]

I feel your pain.

Rodents chewed on the battery cable.

2 field mice in the car...having to put glue traps in the car on a regular basis.

 

[wyeguy]

A cable TV company I work with a lot has a big problem with squirrels chewing on the insulation on their cables. Turns out some cables are manufactured with a cover that is soy based, or other eco-friendly insulation that the tree rats find delicious! Brilliant! They're replacing a lot of cable. I wonder if some vehicles are manufactured with similarly tasty cables & hoses?