So... I think there is a conspiracy...

 

I would add chocolate syrup. Nothing complements mint like chocolate. And nothing lubricates an engine like Hershey's syrup.

Perhaps this is a job for two of my favorite products. First, seafoam. Might help dissolve the mints. Then you could pour in a lot of MMO afterward to relube and help clean out the mess.

 

surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhbMqjnYNfI

 

those were jujubees not junior mints...

 

luckily it is NA, i wouldnt slap a turbo on there and run it and take a chance of having that crap go through the turbine.

 

Mentos! The fresh maker!

 

It would have to be a straight pipe. How could a mouse (if it was a mouse) get past a Muffler and a catalytic Converter? OH the secrets out. Conspiracy here. OMG

 

LOL! I've never heard of that happening? I once owned a convertible Lebaron that I had parked for close to a year. Well one fresh new sunny day me and my girl decided to go for a drive in the convertible. When we came back home, this squirel just ran right towards the car as I approached my driveway.. There was a sudden "bump" then I looked at my girl she just had her hands on her face as we felt the "bump" as we pulled into the drive way. Yep road kill. I looked in the engine bay and noticed that there was a type of stick and leaves nest in the engine bay.

 

Wild....I wonder if it would help you pass emissions?

 

Lol!!

 

My first engine was sitting for 2 years in a friend's basement with the ports open while I was in college scrounging up money to finish the car.

Found out that mice had stored ample amounts of dog food in the engine, and I only noticed it because the engine was hard to turn by hand, and made crunching noises as I overcame the "hard spots".

This same engine ran for 2 years until my IAT sensor failed during an autocross, resulting in a chipped seal

 

were the mice still in there when you turned the motor over?

 

^lol

 

so howd you get this out? lol

 

I ended up ductaping straws to the end of my shop vac hose and sticking it in the exhaust ports accompainied with a light.
The remaining i got out by pouring alot of gas in the engine and sloshing it around then turning it over until it pushed all the guck out.

 

Good question

 

Honestly I would put some hot water in there and let it dissolve. then turn it over with an air ratchet to blow everything out.

 

I had no trouble starting my 88 vert after its winter rest, pulled the air cleaner lid off and a mouse had made a nest of chewed up newspaper on top of the air filter.
Lat week I pushed a bunch of steel wool intop the intake, should stop thie rascal
Mike

 

thought i had seen it all, but wow....so i guess i shouldn't try to market the rx7 motor as a high powered gum ball machine

 

I found a peanut M&M under the valve cover of a 305 once and it had been running as a daily driver.

It tasted like ****. How did the Mentos taste?

 

dealer option.

 

Lololololol.

This is just the opinion of an engineer not a someone who works on engines but I would think that candy is not nearly as hard as metal, nothing will get scratched and you should be fine. I concur with RotaryEvolution, who actually does work on engines and whose opinion matters more. But hopefully an engineer on top of that will make you feel better.

I think whatever's left should burn off pretty well but it doesn't hurt to check and clean what you can.

Mice is a good theory. That's why it's common practice to stuff any openings during storage. Just remember to unstuff them later.

 

Interested in how it tasted as well....we all know someone tried it

 

Haha this is like when i picked up my motor from storage and took off the exhaust manifold and rice came out. i was like WTF? how it got into the exhaust manifold is beyond me

 

Similar but not quite as funny as mentos, unless is was a JDM engine