MAD Bypass Alteration - Risk?

67Dart273 said

Why did you do away with the alternator black. If you simply bypass the ammeter, then run a large gauge FUSED (or breaker) wire direct from alternator to battery, the black and red through the bulhead then work together to feed power into the pass. bay. This adds "more wire" size and is not a bad thing.

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This is what I did. The wire coming off the alternator is already in the harness so it would have been more work to remove it. I just left it there. Now the interior is feeding from two locations instead of one. I did add a fusible link to the original black wire coming off the alt. Now both interior feeds have fusible links on them.

The bypass wire from the alt stud to the battery/starter relay has a very low chance of shorting to ground but I wanted to add some protection if the alternator shorted to ground internally. I added a fuse holder in that line before it connects to the relay. I also have a short piece of wire running from the relay to a buss bar under the battery tray. The buss bar powers the headlights and convertible top pump.