[Ricky78045]

Thanks hotrod, we kinda did this last minute, that was her first time soldering anything we tried it because there was a parasitic short somewhere and i had assumed it was the nasty patch job i did with the radio. we noticed the reverse light wouldnt light up on the driver side and the battery seemed to drain within 2 days, and found the tail light connector ground wire severed and exposed(as if it were to be yanked but most likely it was melted by the triple digit heat here in texas). so we went to the junk yard and found the connector with pigtails and we soldered the new tail connector. Luckily that seemed to stop the parasitic drain, must have been making contact with all those bumps on the roads.

Edit: We were thinking about upgrading the radio receiver to a newer one, wife liked the idea of heat shrinking the new soldered connectors for the new headunit. She said it would be a more professional install and make it a permanent addon.