Burnt Wire

No, with the light still in the circuit, i took my test light to see if any of the ignition wires were dead. if all of them were good, I would have gone inside and tested the ignition switch and looked any place that the wire could have been shorting out. But, when i touched the yellow start wire connection, the car spun over. yesterday i thought it was a bad connection at the bulkhead, but after I thought about it, the wire may still be shorting out somewhere in the car.

That helps a bit.
It sounds like you may have simple jumped power to the starter relay.

I think what you're saying is this:
With the safety light in the circuit, a non-powered test lamp was connected between the S2 wire at the bulkhead and some other point.
Yes?

If so, it looked like this sequence.
Key off there should be no power available in J3 or S2.
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Then did you do something like this? Key off, connect the test lamp to somewhere on the battery feed and then probe into the bulkhead cavity for S2?
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