no electrical after I removed the gauges, not sure why

[davidhilldallas]

On a 70 Challerger with Rallye gauges
I disconnected the battery over the weekend and removed the gauges and the 4 switches on the left side to fix some things. I got a different wiper switch I wanted to test, so I plugged that in and then connected the battery back to see if I could start and test the switch. Nothing happened. No dome light it on, all seems to be dead for some reason. Battery is new, a few weeks old and the charger/tester show it to be good...

Not sure if disconnecting the gauges and switch is the problem like a loop is not made??

Any ideas? Do I need to connect every back to get it to work??

[GoodysGotaCuda]

When you took out the ammeter, you killed power coming to pretty much everything on the car.

Jump the two ammeter wires together to make the circuit with a small nut/bolt and tape it up so you don't short it while you test.

[anlauto]

Yes you need to bolt the two ammeter wires together.

[davidhilldallas]

got power back when I plug in the gauge regulator and the other connections including the DC gauge..