Up in smoke

[Mechanickid]

FWIW I had a 91 exploder sport for around 6 months. It rode fine. It rode alot better with no sway bars though. Not one drawback to the explorer, exept you are correct that it is gutless due to the weight.

 

[MJ'sBlkBII]

As usuall this is going to have to wait the 2-3 weeks for me to get home. I have a couple of Ford wireing diagrams that will be waiting for me when I get there. I am figuring I did 1 of 2 things if not both. 1 I cliped or pinched some wires putting in the pedal assembly. This is not so likely since I'm usually good about catching that sort of thing. I was on the floor looking up doing it since the interior is completly stripped so I could have good visability. 2 I over heated the wires under there cranking the engine trying to get it to start. This seems more likely. Especialy since I belive something grounded out under there.
I do belive I know the connectors you are refering to AllanD. They are part of the stuff I have to fix. Basicaly it looks like the coating shrunk back out of the plugs, so I am gonna clip and reconnect them. There is one more oddity with this. When I would rotate the distributor with the key on, the fuel pump relay and all would click on like I just turned on the key. However I could not replicate it by manipulating the wires, just the distributor. Any ideas what this could mean?
All this reminds me of a song. Lessons learned and they don't come cheap...

 

[MJ'sBlkBII]

I got the wire schematics and myself home finally. From what the diagrams show, I may have lost just the ground wire for the Cruise brain box. This also explains why I couldn't tell the color of the wire, black is black. The next issue is to take it apart adn find out if any other wiring was injured, but I may be lucky and nothing else was. The other wires leading into the loom don't seem to have even been touched, but they aren't AS close as if wraped up. It burned through the looming though so it should be easy enough to open and inspect. Of course I also have to figure out WHY this happened. If I caught the wire putting in the pedal assy, and it was touching either it or the column, would that do this? It has burned the wire from the brain box clear to the mounting point on the oposite side of the inspection panel opening (left side of the steering column.

 

[AllanD]

As usuall this is going to have to wait the 2-3 weeks for me to get home. I have a couple of Ford wireing diagrams that will be waiting for me when I get there. I am figuring I did 1 of 2 things if not both. 1 I cliped or pinched some wires putting in the pedal assembly. This is not so likely since I'm usually good about catching that sort of thing. I was on the floor looking up doing it since the interior is completly stripped so I could have good visability. 2 I over heated the wires under there cranking the engine trying to get it to start. This seems more likely. Especialy since I belive something grounded out under there.
I do belive I know the connectors you are refering to AllanD. They are part of the stuff I have to fix. Basicaly it looks like the coating shrunk back out of the plugs, so I am gonna clip and reconnect them. There is one more oddity with this. When I would rotate the distributor with the key on, the fuel pump relay and all would click on like I just turned on the key. However I could not replicate it by manipulating the wires, just the distributor. Any ideas what this could mean?
All this reminds me of a song. Lessons learned and they don't come cheap...

It means absolutely normal function.

The Fuel pump relay is turned on and off by the EEC.
Rotating the distributor rotates the pickup past the reluctor generating a
single pulse that's all that the EEC needs to see to turn the relay on for 5seconds.

It only takes one pinched wire to cause a short.

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