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Help with power to exterrior lights

TC4x4

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I started the night well with pulling off all the old school trailer brake stuff from the rear of the truck working my way under the hood. If you look up in the upper left the two large white fuses get power from the alternator (blue wire) on left of fuses. The red wire going in the left side I did not find the other end yet. Then go to the red and blue wires on the right side of those white fuse holders which go over the back of the engine to the grounding point i believe just at about 1 o clock to the engine. From there the blue wire going from that on the right side (driver side) goes through the fire wall to the head light switch. So IF THAT EVEN MAKES ANY SENSE WITH THE PICS TELL ME THIS...

How do i cut out all the old school big fuses and just get the power to the head light switch and ground.

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Just a wild guess, it looks like the fusible links have been replaced with fuses. If so, personally I would leave them. They should work fine.
Otherwise, you are going to have to pick up some fusible link wire to replace them with.
The red wire you can't find, I suspect goes to the starter solenoid and from there to the battery.

As for the headlight switch, the other end of that red wire should be hot and you can hook it to the battery terminal on the headlight switch.

As for ground, none of those wires goes to ground. Instead, the heavy ground cable goes to an engine ground, and the small wire off of the battery terminal hooks to chassis ground by the radiator.
 
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