[Shop-talk] Cabin Air Filters

[Donald H Locker]

Can you put a bit of hardware cloth across the filter? (I can't imagine 
how they are getting in either. Unless they are going from inside the 
cabin - highly unlikely.)

Donald.
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On 2019-03-09 10:52 a.m., Rochlin Robert via Shop-talk wrote:
> The fan is a bear to R and R and the filter has been eaten/worn through 
> each time I’ve replaced it so that the mice, the nuts, and droppings 
> have been there over months.  I’ve never seen any evidence of the mice 
> in the truck except in the filter element.  I have no idea how they get 
> in or out as there is a grate over the intake by the windshield.
> 
>> On Mar 9, 2019, at 9:46 AM, Bob Spidell via Shop-talk 
>> <shop-talk at autox.team.net <mailto:shop-talk at autox.team.net>> wrote:
>>
>> "Inhaling mouse drippings can’t be good."
>>
>> It isn't:
>>
>> https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/index.html
>>
>> Why not just clean the fan and replace the filter every spring?
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/2019 4:11 AM, Robert Rochlin via Shop-talk wrote:
>>> In my Frontier the cabin filter is inhabited by mice every winter and 
>>> the acorns and nut they store fall down into the fan as they wear 
>>> through the filter element, so not only does the filter do nothing 
>>> I’ve got the loudest ventilating fan in town.  I think that this 
>>> spring I’ll remove the fan, clean it and not install the cabin 
>>> filter.  Inhaling mouse drippings can’t be good.
>>> Best,
>>> Bob
>>>
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