Sad 1995 Concorde News

I've kept my Concorde for winter bad weather use, saving my lovely 300M
from some abuse.
The Concorde is sitting beside my garage, beside a wooded ravine.
I run it up and keep the battery charged regularly.
About a month ago it started missing on one or two cylinders. It was my
intention to put the Concorde in my garage and look into this problem.
I was concerned it may be very difficult determining what causes the
miss.
Well now I'm not so concerned about the task of finding the miss cause,
I know what it is, it's too obvious. A few days ago I tried starting it
and no go, didn't even turn over. It seemed to be eating the battery
power with a clunk when I turned the key.
Looking under the hood, I was shocked at what I saw. About 8 small
exposed wires at the terminal block on the right side of the firewall,
had been chewed through, a few totally gone.

Dam it, how do I discourage some dumb rodent from lunching on my
Concorde's wiring?

Josh S wrote:

> I've kept my Concorde for winter bad weather use, saving my lovely 300M
> from some abuse.
> The Concorde is sitting beside my garage, beside a wooded ravine.
> I run it up and keep the battery charged regularly.
> About a month ago it started missing on one or two cylinders. It was my
> intention to put the Concorde in my garage and look into this problem.
> I was concerned it may be very difficult determining what causes the
> miss.
> Well now I'm not so concerned about the task of finding the miss cause,
> I know what it is, it's too obvious. A few days ago I tried starting it
> and no go, didn't even turn over. It seemed to be eating the battery
> power with a clunk when I turned the key.
> Looking under the hood, I was shocked at what I saw. About 8 small
> exposed wires at the terminal block on the right side of the firewall,
> had been chewed through, a few totally gone.
>
> Dam it, how do I discourage some dumb rodent from lunching on my
> Concorde's wiring?
Quit parking it in the woods? After all, that is where all the little chewy
critters live.

sctvguy1 > wrote in
:

>> Dam it, how do I discourage some dumb rodent from lunching on my
>> Concorde's wiring?
> Quit parking it in the woods? After all, that is where all the little
> chewy critters live.
>

Put one of those rodent-deterrent frequency emitting devices under your
hood? I bought one (for my garage) for about $20 by Black and Decker.

Or do it the simple way of applying some anti-rodent goop on the wires?

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Rahul