I was installing a remote starter in the wife's 97 Taurus wagon and was tapping into a big yellow wire from the ignition harness. It was live when the key was in accessory, run and start positions. Battery was still hooked up (as per instructions in the installation guide) but I touched the bare wire to a ground a shorted it out. Now the wipers and the speedometer don't work and that yellow wire is no longer live ever. All fuses related to the wipers are still good. No power to the fusebox at the wiper plug. Wipers work when I patch power to the fuse panel from another live wire. No other weird symptoms, all other systems are fine.
Anybody know where that yellow wire goes and what it does? Could it have an inline fuse somewhere?