Wagon is possessed........

[86VickyLX]

I dunno. I'd be leaning more towards a short circuit somewhere. Possibly a melted wire on exhaust?

[91longroof]

Raining cats and dogs tonight. Will check tomorrow. Thanks.

[86VickyLX]

Good luck! If the problem isn't apparent, wiring issues are a pain in the ass to fix!

[91longroof]

Well, got to work on the wag last night. Checked all connections and wiring for signs of shorting or condition issues. Found nothing that looked bad. So spliced in a fuse holder in place of the link and stuck a 7.5 amp fuse just to see it would immediately blow, turned the key and she started right up! Idled for a while with no issues, wire and fuse were cool as a cucumber so took it for a 4 mile loop. No problems. Have upped the fuse to a 15 amp and still all good. I guess when the pickup/TFI module issues happened it caused the link to smoke. Anyway, so far, so good. Thanks for all the input.

[86VickyLX]

Well, got to work on the wag last night. Checked all connections and wiring for signs of shorting or condition issues. Found nothing that looked bad. So spliced in a fuse holder in place of the link and stuck a 7.5 amp fuse just to see it would immediately blow, turned the key and she started right up! Idled for a while with no issues, wire and fuse were cool as a cucumber so took it for a 4 mile loop. No problems. Have upped the fuse to a 15 amp and still all good. I guess when the pickup/TFI module issues happened it caused the link to smoke. Anyway, so far, so good. Thanks for all the input.

Glad to have helped. When I get a chance, I'll look up on my wiring and tell you what size fuse I used to replace that link.