Charging wiring question

The TSM - Technical Service Manual - is about the best you will get and even they aren't perfect. I've seen some cases of the schematic not matching the actual wiring in the vehicle because the TSM was put together based on plans - and sometimes things changed in production. In those cases TSM supplements were published but those aren't as easy to find for all years that they came out. 
So - you do the best you can with the tools at hand. 
I have a book of nothing but wiring and vacuum diagrams for 60s and 70s that's really good, as well as shelves of the biig Mitchell books (not the book store type - the subscription pro type) and a number of TSMs, but I lack a lot of the early 60s TSMs. I have 63 but that's for Rambler Classic and Ambassador - American was a different book and I don't have that. I am missing 64, 65 and 66. 
So I MAY be able to fill in some gaps - maybe.

tomj wrote: the schematics in most or maybe all TSMs are multi-sheet foldouts. not standard A sized pages. PDF is capable of multiple and mixed page sizes in a document, but most people don't bother to assemble them. they're e4ither chopped out like here, or something dumb like shrink to fit.

Shrink to fit should be outlawed. I hate that with schematics, etc. 

I sometimes cut sections out as far as images I want so I can ENLARGE them and show the specific area in question because I don't give a rip about headlights and certain other wiring when showing the charging system......... but you should see what I've done with some of the Eagle and Jeep TSM wiring diagrams I have - I used my scanner and copier and printer and took a single page from the TSM and made it cover something like three sheets of 8.5x11 paper and made BIG diagrams. I used to take them to work and enlarge to HUGE sizes on the big commercial copiers they had. A single TSM page may occupy 5 sheets of paper. 

Fantastic find vinny thank you! Thanks to all of you for the insight

This is exactly why I HATE REMAN ALTERNATORS And will never ever ever even hint or suggest that anyone use one. 
IF this is truly for a 71 and later - it means they put the WRONG brush cover on it - they left off the metal plate that has the ground spade connection.
That's the simple part - you can connect a ground wire to one of the negative diode studs on the "right" side of the alternator.......

HOWEVER, your description of the output?
Ouch - sounds like it has an isolation diode? You say something like "its own platform" and that's not a good sounding thing.
If that's the case, then you can't use the regulator you bought for it - and the alternator would actually be for a 70 or earlier - although without the ground connection, technically a 69 or earlier. 

It's also possible that it's TOTALLY screwed up and is a 71 and later with an isolation diode on it - we must sort that out because that's just plain WRONG and will cause you nothing but headache and trouble. 

So, we either need a photo of the back of your alternator, or, need to compare it to these pictures - 

Is it like either of these?

Edited by billd - Oct/01/2019 at 8:16pm