Do you have suggestions on how to seal the opening into the tunnel the front of the transmission pokes into?
The rubber piece from the stock trans doesn't fit.
I would really like to keep mice out of the tunnel.
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You need a Cat--
I left it open on my car, Mike, but I don't see why you couldn't use pipe foam insulation around the hole.
Pipe insulation may work.
I had a cat but we had to put him down.
I keep mouse poison in the garage and monitor its consumption. I also have one of those ultrasonic things but I don't actually know if it works.
Years ago I had a beetle with a rust hole in the footwell and a mouse got stuck halfway through.
Since the pan boot seals around the hole the shift rod goes through from the nosecone, why wouldn't a normal VW 111301289B or BX Nose Cone Boot Seal work?
The end of the nose cone where the rod from inside the transmission comes out is shaped a little differently.
In any case, the trans is already installed and it would require cutting of the boot to install it.
Michael, no need to worry.
Most mice today don't know their way around a manual transmission, anyway.
duct tape and JB Weld will fix anything:}
Hey, my kids have had 3 pet rats there smarter than most dogs
A couple caulking tubes of clear or black bathroom silicone will seal it!
Or, if you don't want to deal with the future issue of getting it out of there (both the transaxle and the silicon caulk), then you can get a suitably shaped piece of closed cell foam, the kind used as packing material and sold (I think) at Staples or Home Depot, pressed up into the void and then held in place with a tie wrap or, if you're clever in shaping it and it fits the various shapes involved, "glue" it in with a little silicon caulk.
You could always just shoot some space-filling aerosol foam into the void and it'll expand and close it up. Don't go too wild with it as it might attach to the shift rod coming out of the nosecone and it will be a PITA to ever get it fully out of there later on. Whether the mice find it and eat through it is unknown.
Armaflex pipe insulation. Done.
Play-Doh 
Don't laugh Play-Doh could be used to make a mold or image and then use a 3-D printer to produce a plastic product.
Play-Doh was originally made to clean wallpaper:
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Michael McKelvey posted:Play-Doh was originally made to clean wallpaper:
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Then they discovered what it did to carpets...
I just used the standard nose cone rubber thing.