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Richard Jensen · 03-19-2018, 09:29 PM

Yep, I had a bad mouse smell in my 72 truck when I first got it. I noticed the heater core was leaking about the same time, so I decided to replace the core. WOW! Talk about a mess!!! I ended up pulling the entire heating system out of the truck! I took all of the parts, except the blower fan, and defrost ducts and soaking them in a barrel of bleach water(with lots of bleach), then using various scrub brushes, I scrubbed everything good inside and out, and then hit all the metal parts with rust killer and then painted everything with gloss black including the inside of all the parts. I wanted to "seal in" anything that might still be in there so it would never smell. The biggest "damage" was the firewall that opened up to the outer heaterbox/core box. The bottom of the opening was rusted out. I used some brass shim stock to close the hole up and seal it. This is my daily driver and it'll never be a matching #'s truck, so,,,,

Richard

03-19-2018, 09:29 PM	#5
Richard Jensen Registered User Join Date: Feb 2018 Location: LaCrosse Ks. Posts: 50	Re: I hate mice part2 or why my clutch was slipping Yep, I had a bad mouse smell in my 72 truck when I first got it. I noticed the heater core was leaking about the same time, so I decided to replace the core. WOW! Talk about a mess!!! I ended up pulling the entire heating system out of the truck! I took all of the parts, except the blower fan, and defrost ducts and soaking them in a barrel of bleach water(with lots of bleach), then using various scrub brushes, I scrubbed everything good inside and out, and then hit all the metal parts with rust killer and then painted everything with gloss black including the inside of all the parts. I wanted to "seal in" anything that might still be in there so it would never smell. The biggest "damage" was the firewall that opened up to the outer heaterbox/core box. The bottom of the opening was rusted out. I used some brass shim stock to close the hole up and seal it. This is my daily driver and it'll never be a matching #'s truck, so,,,, Richard __________________ Lead, follow, or get out of the way!