I had a similar problem and solved it by keeping a cat and a litter
box in my car.
Ken
On Mar 6, 2005, at 7:50 AM, lancia_zagato wrote:
>
> For the archives, here is some more info.
>
> --- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, "lancia_zagato" <francois@h...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Under the fusebox was not pretty.... Looks like a *mouse* did some
> > serious damage to insulation of wires. Something shorted a wire too.
> > I'm wrapping up this area (literally)
>
> I ended up having to cut and splice new sections of wiring and
> insulating about 12 wires. Argh. How can I seal this so no mouse come
> back in there?? Mineral wool? combined with epoxy? I need something
> that a mouse cannot chew thru. They chewed the copper wires, even
> cutting some, so...
>
> > but now going back close to the
> > battery I see:
> [...]
> > The last wire is yellow. Well. Now it's mostly black. It is half
> > melted and burnt. I cant see any number and I have to idea where it
> is
> > going.
>
> Apparently this might have been going to the key switch and might be
> wire #20 (a different #20 than the brown one on that same connector,
> to really confuse anybody trying to diagnose the electricals).
>
> I was going to bypass this when it occured to me that if it was
> looking that bad near the battery, it probably was bad for a certain
> length. So I started splitting open the harness. Argh. All the wires
> melted together, some touching. 5 hours later I had fixed all of that,
> spliced a new section for the yellow wire on the unused pin on the
> block connector (leaving the blue wire by itself).
>
> What I think I'll do is to permanently in the dash a led bargraph of
> the injector duty time and another led triggered by a coil on the wire
> between the ignition coil and spark plug. That way I can monitor. I
> think the splicing I did is pretty good, but I need to monitor it. I
> already have a "power on" led for the ignition and injection which
> reduces the guesswork pretty quickly.
>
> After fixing the wiring, the car cranked and started pretty much right
> away.
>
> Thanks George, Brian, Peat, Koll, Eduardo and Con for all your
> suggestions.
>
> Ciao,
> Francois Dion
>
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