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New Ex + Puppy= Bad Dog/No Start

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3 days after bringing home our new X, my wife had a no start condition in our driveway. I troubleshot it with my outdated 7.3L logic, then gave up and called for a tow to the dealership.

Well, it seems that one of our dogs, a 9 month old Lab named Sam (From the Seuss story "Sam I Am") took a liking to the taste of the wire bundle running from the left frame rail to the rear of the tranny. Chewed the crap out of it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

$159 made it better. Had I thought to look underneath, I could have fixed it myself for free, but oh well.

After I got it home, I reversed the plastic wire loom anchors on the frame crossmember and added a few zip ties to pull them down and forward, out of the way. To finish, I sprayed the wires (And others)down with OC pepper spray. It's worked for me in the past to prevent dog damage to home, barn and tools.
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Well, it seems that one of our dogs, a 9 month old Lab named Sam (From the Seuss story "Sam I Am") took a liking to the taste of the wire bundle running from the left frame rail to the rear of the tranny. Chewed the crap out of it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

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A lab will chew on any thing, we have had two, one went through the dry wall! But that was pior to chewing every corner off of every kitchen oak chair but what the heck they were in need of recovering and a little refinishing anyway. All those minwax products work great don't they?

Any way look on the bright side, if you made it to 9 months you only have 13 to go!

Had one get into an 86 Mercur XR-4TI and eat the leather off the head rest!

Hang in there as their is no better Family dog in my opinion

Bruce
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