That's the quickest I have ever seen anyone go from "eff this" to "It lives!"
Congrats on your diligence and resourcefulness.
LOL
My F#@k this came at the time I had been lying on the ground for a few hours unable to get up because I had screwed my back up again. It still hurts like heck when I move the wrong way and my leg feels like I have an iron sitting on my upper thigh.
My big breakthrough was finding out that the C500 was not making good connection. I think the grease in my original one was contaminated and when I plugged my old plugs into the new one it screwed ty up also because only about half of the connections had good continuity.
Ditching the c500 and going with direct wires solved most issues. Now I have to clean it up and still need to fix the temperature gauge and headlights but it is now drivable.