76 Plymouth Valiant won't start

OK, Hope I do all of this correctly...

The first pic (605) is of the battery, right after I got it out of the car and before I decided to just replace the terminal connectors...

The 2nd (667) & 3rd (668) pictures are of the melted wire. It should be noted that the melted areas are on each side of the "fusible link" tag... Where exactly is the fusible link (in the tag or in the other rubber cover (4th pick, 666 above my finger) or both?)

The 5th (665) picture is the rest of the wire. It is red, then has, what I guess is an actual fusible link and then goes to black and has another fusible link... GEEZE, how many fusible links are there? And if you notice, the wire that is melted is black where it is melted and red where it goes back into the harness. There is another wire, on the left, that is the opposite (black where it goes back into the harness) and it has several fusible links on it. There is a wire coming off the battery 6th picture (663) that has an obvious fusible link but I can not find which of these wires is connected to it, until I take the harness apart... Is that where the wire changes from one wire to the three?

You will also notice in picture 665 that what I think is the ballast resister is at the top of the picture (tannish rectangular ceramic thingy with 4 contacts coming out of it and 2 plugs connected to it... and a 7/16th screw holding it onto the firewall). Right?

I should probably wait to ask this but here goes...
The car has had some idling issues and some automatic choke issues; I have used carb cleaner on it to no avail (BTW, not sure if I mentioned it but it has an auto choke (standard for that year?). Someone told me there isn't a lot you can do, as far as "fine" adjustment goes to the auto choke...
So what is this 6th picture of (669) and notice it has a connector missing, right where it says automatic choke... Is it supposed to be like that or is there a wire missing?

Also, when I took the breather assembly off, I found a vacuum line that was just laying on top of the intake, 7th picture (670) is where it starts. Can you tell me where that goes, because I looked EVERYWHERE!

And Geeze does the engine bay need cleaned but I am afraid to do it, as when you hit a mud puddle with the car, it stalls out. My guess is it needs a distributor cap or some waterproofing of the distributor cap...

My eye is twitching and I'm getting a headache...#-o