Burned wiring harness Options

[Olympic 914]

Took the car for a drive yesterday, and it quit twice on me. First time as I was driving along and decided to turn on the heater blower fan. it just cut out and coasted to a stop. fortunately on a local neighborhood road with little traffic. after a bit of fiddling the relays and the 12 pin plug on the relay plate the fuel pump buzzed and it started. Drove to the gas station for gas and made another stop without a problem, then at a friends house again it wouldn't start. more fiddling and it started and I drove it home.

Today I start to look at things and working on why the heater blower wasn't working and the problem with the fuel pump started again. With the key on I was wiggling the relays when I noticed smoke leaking out from the 12 pin wiring harness, I quickly shut of the key and found that the black/purple wire had melted. this wire goes to the neg coil and was melted over there too. it is for the tach . maybe the points were closed when I was messing with it. the bottom of the relay plate seems ok but I haven't run any tests on it yet.

Look like I am in for a new ignition harness at least, and I don't know if it destroyed the tach. or if the problem is in the relay plate. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I was really working hard to get this thing running to take it to the Pittsburgh Vintage Gran Prix this weekend.... Looks like it won't happen now.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

I put about 15 miles on yesterday and it ran great. Just staying local. I had an alignment scheduled for tomorrow but that won't happen now either.

SHIT. !!!!