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Originally Posted by Original69RS-SS
After my last attempt, I've tried nothing, yet. I don't really know what I'm looking for and this old body struggles to crawl up the dash anymore. It's snowing, the garage is cramped and going down into the teens tonight. I just need a focused strategy for when I can get out there again. Now a have a couple of ideas. Thank you gentlemen. One more question, does frying coil wire suggest any damage elsewhere?…like under the dash or in the ignition switch harness?
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Possibly, if the wire casing is bubbled back into the harness tape, it would require unwrapping it far enough back to find the end of the overheat. I doubt it will cause a loss of power with just the jacket meltdown and cool off. Copper wire can stand a LOT of heat and not melt. A soldered joint along the way...it takes very little heat to melt that stuff.
I HOPE you have/had a charger on the battery. If it is drained down to dead, it can freeze, not with temps in the teens, but it won't help it to leave that discharged in a subfreezing temp.
Other than making certain the battery is charged, yeah, wait for warmer weather. I don't know about other people, but for me, problem solving and repairs don't go well when my hands are frozen...
