I thought about doing the ammeter bypass. Someone had kind of done it already. They cut the red wire behind the bulkhead and spliced in a new one from the gauge lug and ran it through the firewall. I have a good factory wire from my Duster with the original connectors still in tact so I can re-use that.

I did also get an NOS bulkhead connector and starter relay so I might just put it back together like factory for now. Most of the time the connection in the bulkhead is what fails so if it's all new and clean, it should be fine for the time being. I can clean all the original terminals and pack 'em with dielectric grease.

Things look mostly OK under the dash, no melted stuff that I can see. There are some quick splices for the gauge wiring and the radio harness is hacked up pretty good for the cheapo speakers behind the seat. Someone unwrapped the whole thing to get to what they needed so the harness flops around which is annoying, will fix that when I do the bulkhead.