Thanks for all the input. Here are replies to the last few posts. Lets see ... I'll investigate the meter and figure out what I don't know about the A readings. I bought the meter yesterday morning and am a little unfamiliar with it. I did check voltage at battery and it reads just slightly lower than readings at the alternator, still above 14V. I think the 65 was 12V to begin with so no conversion from 6. I disconnected everything from the cluster several times tying to chase down the faulty temp gauge (turns out I had two bad temp senders in a row - thanks autozone). Broke the oil pressure line once, tried to get the tach working(the cluster came out of a dump truck and came equipped w/ tach) So now the temp is working, ammeter?, tach not working yet, I may have fritzed the fuel gauge.
