ELECTRICAL: gremlin getting stabbed?

[bigray327]

Glad you found that, but I have to ask "How did the door sill grounding out" got discovered?

I ripped out everything connected to the interior lights, including the innocent connector in the passenger side A-pillar that valiantly sacrificed its life for the cause. When I pulled up the driver's side door sill, I saw that one of its wires was pinched in the clip and shorting it to the body.

 

[bcb06gt]

Next dumb question, because maybe I missed another thread. The intermittent coolant was caused by a bad/burnt wire/connection in the fuse box (or al least I thought that from the previous posts). How was that related to the door sill which was/maybe related to the killed gremlin?

And has the gremlin been completely laid to rest?

 

[bigray327]

Yeah, sorry for being confusing. I had two separate issues that happened around the same time, which made me think they were the same cause.

First, I lost a stock cooling fan several months ago. The motor ceased and unbeknownst to me, burned up some of the harness going to the BEC, and part of the BEC itself. I put in a new fan, but it was still intermittently failing due to the bad wiring. Once I found that bad wiring, it took me two freaking months to get a new BEC and harness from Ford, but that fixed that issue.

But the gremlin was still getting stabbed, so that caused me to trace all of the wiring in the cabin. That's when I found the pinched door sill wire, which was my fault... wires moved around during installation.