Fusible link?

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but I'm literally pulling my hair out here as I can't find fusible link anywhere.

The stealership wants an arm and a leg for fusible link (1+ weeks to have it shipped in), and Mogre is saying primary wire can be used as a fusible link (remember we're in Canada and napaonline.com is different from our napacanada.com site). Anyways I took a look at the primary wire Mogre suggested at NAPA and it definitely doesn't look like fusible link, nor does it have any markings on it to indicate it is fusible link. The outer jacket on the wire looks like it would burn up instead of containing the short should something happen too so I'm pretty leery on using this.

Any real alternatives? Pretty sick of researching this (5+ hours now) with no clean alternative or solution.


What year is your duster, mine is a 73 and is located about 6" from the bulkhead connector on the firewall side.