Rats are nothing...we have very large ground squirrels that roam the parking lot here at work (remote military installation). One hitched a ride under the hood of the 'tour to my home some 60 miles away
. It then jumped under the hood of my neighbors Isuzu and ended up at the local laundromat. Both of us had small nests built up between the fender well and firewalls of our vehicles. Luckily nothing got chewed up...that I know of.
My work vehicle, an '86 Chevy 1 ton p/u (tactical vehicle), had a nest of the buggars hatch out and two of them died in the space between the air cleaner and intake manifold on the rear of the engine...didn't figure out where the smell was coming from until they were par-boiled in their own juices. It was hell getting the remains out!
