Detecting a short in my '37 120C

Posted by R Howe On 2018/8/22 9:16:16

Hello. As I was attaching me new wiring harness to my '37 120C,, I was doing it one bit at at time. I had the generator and voltage regulator hooked up along with the starter solenoid. I connected the battery to see if anything might be amiss and all appeared well. after disconnecting the battery, I connected the ammeter over to the ignition switch as shown in the diagram I received from the company who made the harness. When I then connected the battery, smoke appeared from the dashboard and by the time I was able to disconnect the battery, I had completely fried the line from the ammeter to the ignition switch. I took my voltmeter and determined that there was live current from both sides of the ammeter. Do you know if that would indicate a short in the ammeter, or should I be looking somewhere else? There is definitely a short in there somewhere, but all of my information that I have on detecting shorts only works on modern cars based checking the amp draw based on fuses.
Thanks as usual for any information you might be able to give.