I just bought a '80 Super Glide. Bought a new battery, installed it and get nothing. No lights, no nothing.
Have voltage at the headlight, oil pressure light and other accessories.
Jumped across the solenoid and got power but just clicked when I hit the starter button.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Machine Vile

 

First of all...thanks to everyone that responded. It's good to know that I have support to help me figure this thing out.

It was a combination of wiring to the battery not being correct (figured that out by looking at the wiring diagram) and the relay switch being bad.

Fixed both and now I have no spark so I'm in the process of troubleshooting that. Is it possible that if points and condenser are bad that I wouldn't have spark? I have troubleshooted from the Harley shop manual up to the ignition module but it says nothing about the points or condenser.

This is my first hog so I'm learning new things. I did some research last night and found out it is an FXEF-80 Fat Bob. I was pretty pleased to find that out.

Thanks again everybody!

Machine Vile

 

So apparently someone converted it to points at some point in it's life. I changed the points and condenser ($23) and got spark. I put the spark plugs back in and it started right up. Not bad for sitting 10 years and rebuilding the carburetor myself.

I got it home. It's running a little rough so I have to readjust the points and tune the carb.
Any tips on tuning the carb? It's an S&S Super.

The only problem I have no is it's not charging. Gonna troubleshoot that today.


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Troubleshooted the charging system and found no voltage at the regulator. Replaced that for $50 and that fixed it. Went for my first ride Sunday and it's been running ever since.

Thanks again to everyone that gave me a hand.

Machine Vile