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Lets play "what critters have you found in your K5"

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Went out to fill my washer fluid tank and inside the tank was about 20-30 dead ants. How did they get inside the tank? This isnt the first time ive seen them in there.

When I use to park my K5 up against the wood line, I had Black snake in the gas can holder on my back bumper and have found snake skins in the cowling area by the wiper arms.

Have found lil tree frogs inside before, those are fun to try and grab and get out.


So, what critters have made your K5 or vehicle home???
 
Mice are regular intruders. One year they stuffed the area between the lower intake and plenum (this is TPI) full of my under-hood insulation. Of course they were obligated to die in there so I would smell it the next time the engine warmed up and then take half of the intake apart to clean it all out.

I think I've found a mouse nest on top of every engine I've owned. I had the hood up on the K5 last weekend and found a bald baby mouse or vole or something laying on the core support. I found another on the floor nearby in perfect shape and a 3rd just inches away - just bones and covered in worms. Made we wonder how long all of that takes since they weren't there the night before and the one on the core support was still floppy.

Once I removed the tail light and found a birds nest filling most of the rear quarter panel area. I also pulled a birds nest out of my air intake tube. They had built a "pre-filter" for me about 12" long and 4" in diameter. I was getting ready to re-tune the engine because it wasn't pulling very well on the top end...
 
Spiders & little tree frogs. Usually vermin are not a bad problem but every time I get back I have to clean out a ton of sticks and and general tree garbage. Trails are tight in my area.
 
I had a damn squirrel in mine. He was a dick too. Left my window down on a nice fall day, and came out to him yelling at me. Wouldn't let me in. So I just left him.
 
Hornets tried to make a home in my snorkel. i must have started it just after they started making the thing 5 dead ones in the filter box
 
When I bought mine, I had to clean out a bunch of really old gummi bears from the back seat, does that count?
 
A huge rat decided to make a home in the air cleaner of a TBI unit before I swapped body's.

Ants made a home in the carpet insulation when I went on deployment one time.

Wasps seem to make a home in the door jams every year.
 
I have had wasps between the door and front fender and mice and possums under the hood
 
Wasps in my door jambs and under my visor on the pickup are an annual pain,some built nests in my van's door jambs and rear window louvers this year again too..I also found a grapefruit sized nest in the rear wheel well while I was putting a metal patch over rust in front of the rear tire not a foot away..dam near got stung..:mad:..

I often come across huge wolf or wood spiders in my vehicles too--almost crashed my pickup once when a huge one came crawling out of the defroster duct and made a run for the passenger side of the dash,while I was going 50 mph.. !..:eek1:..anyone behind me would have called the cops and said I was drunk--I swerved and grabbed a rag I had on the seat and "whipped" at it,then stomped on the brakes and pulled over after making sure no one was tailgating..
I got out of the truck and went to the passenger side,when I opened the door the wounded spider dropped to the road,and I stomped it flat about 50 times..
Now every time I drive it I am waiting for the rest of the family to crawl out of the ducts...I sprayed some carb cleaner in the ducts,thinking it was better than bug spray,I dont need to be inhaling that all the time..so far no more have appeared..

I gashed my head open once working under my '66 Buick Electra's dash,I was wiring up a stereo,lying on my back with my head stuffed up under the dash near the gas pedal,when I saw something move out of the corner of my eye--it was a huge yellow & black garden spider..:eek1:--in my haste to GTFO of there I slashed my head on some sharp metal and probably should have gotten stitches ,but I didn't..

Mice used to be a pain too,but they seem to like nesting in my tractors small engines better than my trucks lately--I have a few feral cats that hang around and sleep under my vehicles and I find dead mice all over the place often..good kitties!..they did destroy some of the small engines I had stored in my shed though..

Once when I put my '69 GTO back on the road after sitting all winter,I drove it 15 miles and it was running weird,sort of stuttering at times..
I stopped to get some gas 15 miles away in another town and my friend says "hey.I just saw something run across the wiper blades!...
I saw nothing.
Then as I was pumping the gas in,I hear a lady next to me scream,and a brown field mouse zooms across the parking lot..she ran to the guy in the booth where you pay for the gas and says "I'm scared to finish filling my tank"..so the guy reluctantly steps out and says "OK lady,I will do it--but I could get fired for leaving that booth!..

As he walks be me,he says "that woman ,I think she's high--did you see anything"?..I said "yeah,there was a mouse--big deal"..he gave me an "oh brother" look and kind of chuckled..

I then decided to open my hood to check the oil and coolant levels--and saw two mice running in circles on the air cleaner lid!..they see me and leap right out of the engine compartment and made a dash for the nearby vacant lot,and I hear two more screams,the same woman again,and another who were waiting at the booth were both flipping out..we all laughed..

Then I took the lid off the air cleaner ,after I thought I saw a mouse poke its head out of the snorkel...sure enough,the entire air cleaner housing was packed with shelled nuts,mouse crap,and they even chewed thru the wire mesh on the filter and shredded the element,and had also packed a ton of that jute padding from the hood blanket or carpets in there too...another mouse made a flying leap for it and zoomed off,and I dumped out all the stuff in the housing in the trash can--guess that was why it was running kind of weird..:screwy:..
 
Had a neighborhood cat in my Suburban one night. I left my window down about halfway one spring night and she snuggled into the blankets I kept on the back seat for the girls so they could keep warm and sleep if they wanted to. So, I went to work later that night and as I'm driving along, Chloe jumped on my shoulder from the back seat. I didn't know you could sh!t, p!ss and puke all at the same time. How I stayed on the road I'll never know.
 
Phil513 said:
When I bought mine, I had to clean out a bunch of really old gummi bears from the back seat, does that count?
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We just found a full south of the border size family of them living in the third row seat mounts in the back of my wifes denali:haha:


And I too left my windows down 1 night and found a cat in my burb.... He jumped past me out the window when i was about to open the door.... If he had landed on my shoulder going down the road like one did you snuffy I most certainly would have been in a wreck:eek1:
 
I pulled a 6 foot black snake out of the hood of the K30 dump truck on the farm I used to work at. **** that.
 
Stray neighborhood cat would sneak into the garage and bed down in my backseat in the winter. I found out when I took it for a drive the fist nice fall day and had the back window down. White cat hair blew around everywhere the whole way to work. Did I mention I'm allergic to cats? That was a sucky day.
 
I had a friends cat hitch a ride in my '75 K5 one night--I left to go home about 11 pm that night,and drove the 6 miles to my apartment--just as I was about to turn on the street its located on,a car passed me going the other way...it had its high beams on,so I looked "away" so as not to get blinded--and I see two glowing green eyes in my rear view mirror!..

Like Snuffy said,I about freaked --I pulled over and stopped quickly,and turned the inside dome light on...there was "Morris",clinging to the top of the back seat,his eyes as large as saucers.."meeeooow'?...

I had to turn around and drive all the way back to my friends house again,and woke him and his wife up knocking on the door well after midnight..when he came to the door in his underwear,I said "sorry to be a pain--but I had a STOWAWAY in my truck,and he didn't make a peep until I stopped after seeing his eyes glowing like bulbs in the rear view mirror..!"

After that night I was sure to either roll my windows up,or check the truck before going home,and or make sure the cat was in the house !..


Speaking of having a heart attack at 65 mph--
One night I had my CB on in my truck ,while I was making the 70 mile trip to my parents house..I had the squelch turned up to blank out the background chatter...I must have gone 30 miles with the stereo off and was enjoying just hearing the truck humming along..
Then some trucker came on LOUD and says "BREAK-A ONE NINE FOR A RADIO CHECK"..
I about came out of my seat,swerved,and dam near rolled the truck over..
I was sure someone had snuck in the truck while it was parked at a convenience store I had stopped at before I got on the highway..:eek:..
But it was only the CB...:blush:
 
A goat.....My goat to be exact....Used to climb in any vehicle with a door left open. Found him sitting on the front seat many times. Used to like going for rides too. The UPS guy brought him back twice before he learned to close his door while making a delivery.
 
I had ants, big ass ants that lived in my blazer for years. We would only see them at night when we opened the truck door and they would run and hide.


and a bear once in the Tahoe
 
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FOR MUD said:
A goat.....My goat to be exact....Used to climb in any vehicle with a door left open. Found him sitting on the front seat many times. Used to like going for rides too. The UPS guy brought him back twice before he learned to close his door while making a delivery.
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Dude this had me rolling for a half hour, THAT is hilarious!:laugh:
 
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