120A fuse at battery terminal

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So at some point during the course of the installation of my headers I managed to blow the little 120A fuse that is on the positive battery terminal. It is labeled "A-120A" in the picture below. Well, I just called my local stealership and they don't sell the fuse on it's own, but rather the entire positive terminal connection that houses the fuse in question and a few others. Basically I'm trying to avoid paying $64 for a 120A fuse. Does anyone know of an alternative?
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you can solder wires to a different fuse, then tap them there, kind of as a jumper, but still a fused jumper... I do this a lot as a temporary fix at least, if a car blows a big specialty fuse in a collision & I need power to operate the vehicle... if you don't have a 120 you can use 2 60's but you have to do this in parallel, not series... in series even 2 60's will still blow at just 60 amps but 2 60's in parallel will ofer the same protection as 1 120a fuse
 
Thanks, but I was hoping for a permanent and less expensive option. Im already back from the dealer. Pretty clever and lucrative part, that little fuse block. Its basically a connector with 5 fuses built in, and if any one of those fuses blows you have to replace the whole connector. I'll post a pic in a bit.

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I begrudgingly replaced the super-fuse. Here are a couple pics of the old one. It also took me a couple hours of checking every other fuse and relay to realize there was a fuse here at all. So fyi - there are 5 fuses on the positive battery terminal in addition to the three fuse panel locations.

The part in question:
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The blown fuse:
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