Thank you - I did not even think to check the fuse as I decided not to even touch it today; I was working on another project, but I'll give that a check - and unless I get lotto-winner lucky, the inevitable SKREEM gone kaput seems likely.
As for the cost from Needswings, I was adding in the "extra" back-up SKREEM they offer if you buy it at the time of getting the primary fix procured; so it's $699.95 for the primary (yikes!) and then another $849.00 for the additional SKREEM if you want a back-up - thereby a total of $1548.95 (yikes too!).
I'm lucky it died in my garage, but I would have hated for this to have gone out while mid-trip somewhere without a back-up to swap in short order, or if I needed the car and couldn't wait some 3-weeks for a replacement; so the extra cost of back-up purchase, seems to be an attractive offer.
Pending the SKREEM fuse is not blown, I'll likely set time to extract it out of the car next Saturday. I would have dove into it today, just had another project to complete (I was swapping the tumblers/float pins from a donor set of door-locks on a '69 Cougar, which the original door-lock bodies had cracked/crane retainers crumbled, and doing the swap to get working door locks to also match the ignition key - and worked very well, I must say.)
There is a bit of irony there to the similarity of these two jobs; each serves in different ways to "lock up" the vehicle (just that one doesn't turn the car into a 3200lb paperweight.)
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