Bypassed AmMeter on 63 dart, now I get nothing

I would have just got rid of all the power hungry equipment and left the stock wiring alone. If you need the high powered stuff, you need to rewire just about everything to handle the extra load. It's not just the ammeter or bulkhead connection that are the trouble areas when you start putting heavy loads here and there. Oh, and when you just need to bypass the ammeter itself, simply take one of the ammeter wires and connect it to the other one right on the ammeter post. On a stock '63 model the need to do so escapes me though....