TR "I Hate my pos dsm" crew member #0001.

I just realized that the crappy wiring the previous owner left me with was on the verge of catching on fire every time I turned on the lights. I'd been driving around for hours with these on before my slave cylinder went, and when I started my attempt at fixing the two remaining unlit lights this sunday I noticed smoke pouring off of the wiring just before I touched it and found that it was superheated after only 3 minutes of having the lights on.

I'm considering looking in CAPS to see if they have a part number for "Complete wiring harness front to back". Then I'm going to go rip half my hair out at the thought of having to completely replace all the wiring in the car. Looking at the spaghetti wiring it seems easier in some ways than rewiring it one thing at a time, though.

Also I've got to deal with around 5 urgent problems with the car as soon as I find the time to work on it, which is hard when I have to beg rides to my parents' house every time. I'm hoping that the second parts store I've ordered the slave cylinder kit from got the right part, or another week will go by while I try to find another store that has it, find a ride to that store to order it, find a ride to that store to pick it up, then go back and work on the car in the middle of the street. Only when those things are done can I deal with the fire-hazard wiring, leaking transfer case, oil-puddle-in-the-exhaust/ bad compression/loud ticking noise engine, belt squeal that's causing 17.5 volts from the alternator, dead clutch and something else I've no doubt forgotten.

OK, sorry for the rant, I just hate working on the car in slow motion with no money and not "knowing" how to do any of this until I finish the last step on the vfaq printout. I feel slightly better now.