{"id":419,"date":"2016-01-28T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2016-01-28T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T11:00:24","slug":"animals-in-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/28\/animals-in-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals in Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last things you want to find in your car is an animal. Another bad thing is finding evidence they&#8217;ve been there. Animals can do lots of bad things to a car, from chewing wires and hoses to getting caught in the serpentine belt. Thankfully I haven&#8217;t seen the latter, but I&#8217;ve heard of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-423\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_28_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_28_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is one of those things I heard the other mechanics say they&#8217;d never seen before. It&#8217;s a large rat trap superglued onto the valve cover. There were also some blocks of poison around the engine compartment. It was in for a check engine light, and there was evidence of wires being previously repaired, so I think the tech working on it just recommended new wiring harnesses.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-424\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_28_02.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_28_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one was pretty strange. It&#8217;s a little hard to tell in the picture what it is, but there were bones on top of the exhaust heat shield, and one on the battery. I&#8217;m not sure what kind of bones they were, but they were probably put there by some animal, and they smelled kind of toasty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-425\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_28_03.jpg\" alt=\"2016_01_28_03\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A car the express team was working on had this birds nest in the engine compartment. It must&#8217;ve sat for a while for a bird to have time to build a nest and lay eggs, though I&#8217;m not sure how one could get in with the hood closed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Remember to check for new posts every Monday and Thursday, and follow me on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the last things you want to find in your car is an animal. Another bad thing is finding evidence they&#8217;ve been there. Animals can do lots of bad things to a car, from chewing wires and hoses to getting caught in the serpentine belt. Thankfully I haven&#8217;t seen the latter, but I&#8217;ve heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,70],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-ew","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}