so,  I go out to start thee ol 64 Custom Sport,, and she's dead.  swap batteries  and off  I go. Odd.. next day ,, same thing with the fresh battery.  Now I start diggin.

Still running the original external reg.

swap the alternator , as it was not charging.

Still not charging.  

tap the reg , still nothing.

 swap the reg ,  now it's charging,  but over charging , up to 15 VDC

it is an aftermarket reg,  I can not open it up to set the charge max.

clean up points in old reg, install ,, now charging , set voltage to 14 VDC,,all good.

 I leave the car for 7 days,  dead again.....

so,, I have a 2.2 amp draw when the car is off,  I disconnected any load ( stereo , alarm ) all is off.  Still 2.2 amps.

I had my daughter watching the meter m and pulled each fuse,  still  stayed at 2.2 amps???

I even pulled the harness off the back of the light switch , if by chance there was an internal short there??

I then pulled the the Field wire off the alt.  and it dropped to 0.4 amps.

so.....I swapped back on the original Alt.   ( this is where I started ...) thinkin something was internally shorting............

still drawing 2.2 amps..??????

I don't want to throw the towel in and install a newer internal Alt.

Any thoughts ??  Ideas ???