I need to fix and replace some bad wiring(melted) near the fuse box, **Update 11/6 - installed j-west fuse box * started! woo hoo! Options

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I am installing the new Jwwest fuse box and

I have a 3" section of wire off the #5 back row fuse that has melted insulation(grey with black stripe)

what is the best way to replace and splice in the new piece and what gauge wire is correct?

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So this morning I took Tom's advice and started working backward. I have 12 at coil with ignition on- good. Decided to check plugs. New but dirty. Cleaned and retried starting it and it's now running but it must have gotten flooded out the other day as I suspected for what ever reason and had to clear that out. So it was not my wiring. Everything seems to be working fine on that front. Now I have to figure out why my
A.f. meter is reading 22- seems my o2 sensor took a crap because this car is running rich not lean.

I really think there is still an issue going back to my f.i. it is idling good but has kind of an intermittent hick up hear and there. Before the wiring etc. I was having an issue with the idle just dropping out from 1200 to 4 500 then back up lime it's going to die. I suspected the distributor ground wire but that is just fine . That advice plate etc was replaced last year and is not the issue I suspect. But I need to get this sorted out as I would like to get back to driving it regularly.
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