harness fire...

un hooked the alternator from the system entirely, and put a charger on the battery then tried to start it...

still does the thing where it will run if i hold the key in the forward "start" position, wont stay running if I let it spring back to the "run" position.

i am going to pick up another ballast resistor tomorrow to see if the problem goes away... if so i believe it would have been caused by the alternator shorting out...which caused the fire the first time???

if i put another ballast in and it still doesnt want to stay running with no alternator in the system, then... fried ignition column harness/cylinder???

but why would a bad ignition column cause sparks from the alternator???