I have an '83 FXDG that I discovered does not have a 30 amp circuit breaker installed near the battery.
Does anyone have a photo showing where this circuit breaker is correctly installed?
Also, is the circuit breaker like a fuse and once it opens, is it toast?
The use of the term circuit breaker gives a slight connotation that it may be resettable? I know it is wishful thinking.

Thanks in advance.

 

They Self Reset... A breaker is what they are...
All I have from that era are on a "Lug" right off the Positive post of the Battery... If yours don't got one... Someone without a "book" removed it Not knowing it was a Good thing to Have!!!

Harley calls it a Connector bar, and it is Part#69999-77

 

Thank you, that is most helpful.
I'm trying to clean up the cobbled together wiring on the bike and I have the wiring diagram but there are no photos that show actual install locations.
Thanks again.

 

On My '71 FX My Breakers were either between the tanks or in the Headlight Bucket. I know the setups won't match, but it gives you something to look for......

 

#13/27 PN#69999-77 Connector Bar - Circuit Breaker to Battery


The bolt to the positive battery terminal goes thru one end of the Connector Bar, then thru the battery cable, and into the battery terminal. One side (check your wiring diagram, it usually mentions a color, gold or silver IIRC) of the circuit breaker bolts the remaining side of the Connector bar.

 

And Later... under the seat lined up on the Rear Fender... But... Not the Main... It belongs on the Positive post.

I can't know what they had in '71 tho... By '73 Certainly right off of the battery

 

To UPDATE post #5
I mentioned 'gold' or 'silver' studs on the breaker. It should be a COPPER stud on the breaker that gets connected to the Connector Bar.


I couldn't edit my earlier post because too much time had elapsed.

 

Thanks to all of you for the help.

 

I ain't smart enough to actually participate in the troubleshooting end of things but I did take a few pics of the breaker on my 76 FLH.


The little box on the positive terminal.

Ignore the bailing wire.

It does its job. Don't ask me how I know.

I also found out that this bike didn't have a main breaker by accident. I was replacing the ignition switch when a bulb popped out of the instrument cluster and came to rest under the contacts of the switch. It shorted out the positive feed to the grounded switch plate and the entire backbone of the wiring harness went up in smoke and flames.

I wound up buying multiple segments of 16 gauge THHN wire from the electrical supply house and manually recreating the wiring harness over the next week using a Clymer manual and a Weller soldering iron.

It looks as ugly as sin but it's still functioning over twenty years later.

 

Thanks Hoyt, those pics are most helpful.
I have the HD Manual and it has the wiring schematics with the wire color codes, which is priceless.