Voltage Regulator problem

JUST MY HUMBLE OPIONION...

there is so much wrong with this wiring that I would get a doner car or aftermarket OEM replacement wiring harness for your car.

If your car started life as a /6 and it is now a V8 buy a year correct V8 engine harness.

Lastly please do as I mentioned earlier about measuring the resistance of the two field wires and report back. It is posable that your alternator has one of its field wires internally grounded, so a single wire to the other field would cause the alt to charge.

How it would be regulated.... Maybe the blue wire is going through a resister of sorts, to get the voltage down to 7 to 10 volts effectively regulating the alt to not over charge. Or it has beenhooked to 12v and overcharging all along.

My plan is to rewire the whole car. Was just hoping to get this summer and hopefully next before I did. Not sure I did your resistance test correctly or not but I got "OL" results on both.