Please help

[dave97]

So, the damaged wire and resulting short circuit was there before the previous owner "upgrading" the brake fuse?
That makes sense. Obviously, he band aided without searching for the real problem. Not a good approach with electrical problems. Lucky he didn't burn the car down.

Yeah, either he did it just to sell it so it didn't look like there was a fault or he was a whole new level of intelligent hill Billy.

It burning is kind of double edged, if it did burn right now I'd have my insurance money and be troll shopping, instead I'm trying to work out when between work, home renos, holidays that are already booked and organised and family commitments i can gut my rig and rewire the whole thing 😑