See if you can get a used harness (major job). Someone here removed theirs and fixed the problems and put it back in. Look under the fuse box next to the battery, that's a trouble spot. Maybe if you are lucky you can find the wire faults. The temperature gauge will peg immediately if the sensor is shorted, or the wire shorts to ground. Caution: watch for overheating (temperature above M on the scale) if you have a Duratec V6 the waterpumps often fail, not too hard or costly to fix though. Good luck with fixing it up!
