rewiring charging system

C'mon, you are kidding me. You are telling the OP to run his 10ga charging wire into a 12ga circuit back to the battery. You know better than that. It needs to go direct to the battery or starter stud no matter what it takes to do it.

I said no such thing. The starter relay should have same gauge cable as starter. Some years, the cable was routed to the starter relay and THEN to the starter