I put my hand held meter on the battery,that hasn't been charged and it read 12.45 volts. I started up the 78 Elk and then it read 14.8 volts. With the hand held meter on the battery the volt meter in the cab stayed at 13; volts. When I took the hand held meter off it dropped down to the orange line. I put my hand on the activity wires holding it down and a little bit to the passenger side, it stayed up at 13 volts. I pushed a little bit to the driver's side and the volt meter dropped. So I'm going to have to clean up the wire ends and see what happens from there.