Electrical Demon?

Sat for 5 years while I've had it, probably at least 5 more before that. I started to remove it and got to the point of pulling the shaft out of the column, don't have the puller. I figured before I cobble something together to use as a puller I figured I'd raise the flag of help on any other ideas. It was at this point that I read about the voltage at the ballast resistor ( you are correct - from the resistor "to" the ecu ). Just got the meter to settle on 13.3. she stalled and I hit the emotional wall. The range in the manual shows 13.8 - 14.x

Just this minute found a potential problem - I can't get a good resistance reading from the voltage regulator. It would not even register on the ohmeter. I cleaned the paint from the bolt contact areas, wire wheeled the bolt threads and added a direct ground wire over to the bolt on the ballast resistor which has a perfect 0.0 resistance back to the battery. Now the regulator ground is all over the board - from not registering to bouncing in 5-8 ohm range.