65 dodge dart

OK, so when I cranked the motor the other day, the ammeter reads discharge, after looking at the wiring diagram, there's really no way to explain this unless I hooked the ammeter wires up backwards, and I was positive I didn't, after looking at the wiring diagram for the 65 Dart again, I pulled the inst bezel out again, well hell, guess what, the wires were on correctly EXCEPT ! someone had been in there before and for some reason had cut the red and black ammeter wires about 10 inches back and then spliced them back, You guessed it, they spliced the black lead they cut off to the red ammeter wire and visa versa on the red! damn, any way I put it back together and all's well.
I have also figured out the problem with the steering shaft pin and the shoe's not fitting, when I painted the steering column the pin got sprayed with some black paint and I forgot to wipe the excess off before sticking it in the car.