Could a bad temp sensor cause electrical gremlins? And where is it?

Yea but what good would it do to test, I know one of those 50 wires is shorted already, but also the fuse is blown and everything else seems to work fine without it, just the speedometer, dic, and the warning lights, and no I dont think the fuse blows without it in but its a new one, I replaced the cps already

I dunno it might help if I could get to every wire and check but I really dont know for sure, never used one but I figure if the short is in about 10 out of 50 of those wires, and they all run in the same direction and are all wrapped together then it wouldnt do much good. And as far as the fuse for the power supply is concerned it shouldnt make any difference, seeing as it actually has been blown for a while now I guess and still the new speedometer fried, it must be something else along the lines, maybe even in the dimmer circuitry, which is for whatever reason built into the speedometer

Ok since I have a direct line to you at the moment I have a question, do you know anything about the telescopic steering wheels, I have a ground problem and I am in fact missing the spring that pushes the steering wheel out when you release the telescopic part, would that have anything to do with that? If so would that require removing the lock plate? Because that lock plate took hours to put in place with the telescopic setup, and if not could misplacement of my connection ring be my short?

Plus if there was a short it would have the horn blowing at all times actually, sorry I figured that part out on my own but is the contact plate behind the lock plate or on top of it where I wouldnt have to remove the lock plate again? And is that spring that shoves the steering wheel out part of the circuit? I can deal with the current issues other than the horn I have to fix that by tomorrow :S

The horn spring is there, and the plastic connector, its just not getting the positive connection through it and honestly it seems to not even hit anything when I put it in place like whatever it was supposed to contact isnt even there, which if that contact ring is missing im kicking my buddies you know what, but yea I dont see any kind of connectors all I see is the column itself which you cant get in without removing the impossible to reinstall lock plate, so I cant really probe anything unfortunately, ive decided my only option is to rig a ground button directly to the replay. Unfortunate but it will work for a temporary solution

Thanks for all your help man, but I think this is a job for a professional that is gonna charge me twice what the car is worth, there is just too much going on to be able to track this crap down myself and the steering wheel thing, yea that is just a mission im never going on again the telescopic thing makes it nearly impossible to reinstall the lock plate

I dunno again its just too much of a mess of wires to find anything, they all run down into a heat wrap with 50 others and from there who knows, and I know I just gotta ground the black wire to get the horn going, the power runs through it and when it gets grounded it activates the relay, I double checked that already with my multimeter. But yea thanks again man, hopefully I can get something working in time

Ok lets just say for instance. That some***** wired a ground in the middle of a circuit, namely right after the rear radiator fan to get it working, but left the circuit in tact with the ground inserted into the middle, could that cause these problems years after it was done and showed no signs of issues? Because after I found that little blunder I clipped it and rigged the fan to the relay and capped off the other wire

Because I assume that line goes to the temp sensors since its the fan wiring, and assuming that it goes to the temp sensors it could have eventually gotten to the point where they finally couldnt take the back flow anymore and said ok fine have the bad ground, let it pass through, and my first symptom was the temp light giving a false warning. If im right that was my issue all along, mind you I dont have the harnesses hooked up for my speedometer and I cant remember if they were hooked up or not but I dont believe they were and I think my lights still lit up without the cps fuse in, which shouldnt happen considering they are powered by the cps it would now seem

No its not that its because when my friend put my steering column back together it wasnt lined up or something, it worked perfectly before we had to fix the ignition once he put it all back together it didnt work, so I know what that is about, the horn works fine I rigged an external button, that is unrelated to the other issues. I think I may have taken a shot in the dark and accidentally hit my target though, only time will tell