Mate, you can create a free account in one of the free image hosting websites like photobucket.com, upload photos there, copy image code and paste it in your replies along with text. Just like what am doing. Its free and unlimited.
I saw the photo you posted and the pump looks totally different. It has different socket, different inlet/outlet connections (am not talking about the hose or clamp, am talking about the direction they are facing). Is that a genuine pump you bought? or is it an after market pump? The socket on our pumps is square in shape. This is exactly how our pumps looks like.
The inlet or outlet hose is facing upwards in your pic which is different. In the pic above you can see both inlet and outlets are facing flat and straight not upwards. Probably Ford used different pumps in 2001 models.
Interesting finding though about the arching. Seriously Ford should recall all this crap. If the problem is with the female part of the socket then better replace it or make custom soldered connections like what you are planning to do.
Whoever has surging problem should immediately check this socket for traces of arching. It is like carrying a bomb in the back seat.