Any ideas ???

Where does the wire end?
strangely enough, the larger, single black wire that goes into the "Y" junction, does a U-turn and heads right back towards the bulk head. The orange wire that smokes heads towards the bulk head as well, goes into the fusible link and is a red wire coming out of the fusible link. That red wire continues towards the bulk head, but I haven't peeled the cording/cover back enough to see exactly if it ends in the bulk head, or another place. Seems to me the orange part of the wire is what's bent on smok'n.