...what brings me to my old question: how much can my old (41) ammeter handle wit a 60 amp alternator?

As we speak I'm going back and forth between "buy a 60 amp ammeter and try to get it somehow in the original cluster to keep the look"
and "just skip the old ammeter" (and maybe get a halfway decent period looking volt meter).

Actually I'm not exactly excited by both solutions.
An alternative would be a shunt with two diodes, so I can keep the original ammeter working.

Frank