My plan is to use the newly purchased desoldering pump to remove the old relay. If that fails, I may then reach out to tighed1 for a repair. My hesitation there is the number of days I would be without my daily car even though I don't necessarily drive it daily now. The other fallback is to purchase a remanufactured unit which costs more money, but incurs less down time.

If it weren't for an upcoming California smog check in December I would just run the car without the fuse.