Sounds like you are pretty far off the road NOW.
I was looking at my stuff....
I had a kamikaze squirrel blow his head off on my battery....where I'd ALREADY had fire damage, but the little F-tard chewed through a bunch of insulation, and managed to turn himself into a roasted rodent sort of resistor, and the SQUIRREL caught fire, causing FURTHER damage.
My wife says she smells something funny at break fast....I go outside, and there's smoke coming from under the hood...I open the hood, and there's a smoking squirrel laying there, with no head...gone.
I had to get to the train station for a project, so I flicked him off, and went on my way.
On the way BACK from the station....my headlights died, and then the engine. Seems the poor 'ol stock alternator had finally received too much abuse...
I swapped in my spare, which worked, but the head lights acted funny, like left/right hi-low beams were unable to coordinate with each other, so I might have both lows, or both brights, or just one light on each side from either, or no lights from either hi or low....etc (Random).
So I figure somethings still squirrelly.

We found some of your sqirrles...
my dads Ranger had a nest large enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket. he just changed his oil on Dec 2 and it wasnt there then, so some time in the last 3 months some squirrles moved in. found mommy and 1 baby dead. interesting thing is his truck never had a problem. one vaccum line chewed through and the fuel injectino harnes chewed through... not sure why it didnt code or run funny but I just got done the repairs.
on the up side my dad gets to drive my F150 Lariat to work and ill be swapping back with him in the morning.