update.… I have my junkyard find '84 D350 harness all patched up, all cracked/peeled insulation taken care of, new ECU pigtail, new VR pigtail, as these were some of the worst cracked up/bare sections of wire in the harness...
I ordered some new Packard 56 spade terminals for one of the ballast resistor plugs and one that went to the starter relay/ just have the fusible link - delete part of the job, and to extend a few wires to things like the coil and the OP sending unit as needed for a /6.
cuz the harness I got (best one I could find in that yard, from a choice of 3 or 4 trucks that vintage, in the yard) came off a 360.
and today, when it dried up enough, I ventured out into the junkyard, scouting around for a suitable fuse box. I like the MAXI fuses, large blade style instead of the small low profile type of fuse, like on the one we got for the Ramcharger…. the top is clear plastic, but hard to tell by a visual if one of those is blown. Lots of choices, most were too big, clumbsy, lots of mini blade type fuses and relays I didn't need, took up lots of room.... I wound up with one from a '90 Ranger. 10 MAXI fuse slots, 2 std blade type "ATO" slots, anywhere between 7-all 10 MAXI fuses wired (depended on options) and either 1 or 2 of the ATO slots wired....
there is an aux (relay?) lower box on the same bracket as the fuse box, none of those directly tie into the fuse box, so I cut the metal mount bracket with this 2nd relay box, off and threw that part of it away. The last of the "Square body" Rangers seem the best type of vehicle to source a fuse box like this from, for this job. reasons I passed on most listed above in the post.
I grabbed 3 of them. I'm friends with the yard owner, he usually leaves it up to me what I pay for "small stuff" like that.
I have a use in mind for at least 1 of the "spare" fuse boxes I got (my popup camper)
and it was cheaper to grab an extra fuse box for its spare fuses, than to buy them later at the store.
I took the bottom cover off, and drew up a master schematic of wire colors, gauges, and original fuse rating per slot. so I can mount it to the truck, and not have to keep taking it off, to see which fuse slot I was tying into.
Just because there was a given amp fuse in a certain slot don't mean I will put the same back in, once wired in to my truck....I will use the original size fuse from a given slot as the "maximum" that I will put in a given slot.
I had looked online at various available fuse boxes and they either didn't have enough slots (and I don't want a "bank" of fuse boxes under the hood) or they had lots of fuse slots but were the smaller blade type fuses that I didn't feel comfortable putting as large a fuse into them as I need, say, for the main off the alternator....
Please DON'T bug me for a pic... me + pix on forums never seems to work out.