Appearances are deceiving, check the continuity w/your voltmeter for the fuses. "Looking good" and "working good" are sometimes exclusive of one-another: the former does in no-way mean that the latter is happening!
Since you have an elderly bike, relatively-speaking, it would not be uncommon to have a crimped wire connector close-to failure, held-on by only a few strands, and the connection green with corrosion. The only way you are going to know is to physically examine your connectors, including all those in the molded plugs. Some quality contact cleaner from CRC or another similar spray will help to put things right. However, a spritz of CRC is not a way to fix a failed wire connection, but it is helpful to clean corrosion. If the connector is intact but the wire is broken, you may be able to carefully solder the wire back to the connector once you remove the connector from the nylon plug. Doing the removal usually requires something like a jeweler's screwdriver inserted from the side where the M-F connectors join, to depress a small 'finger' of the brass connector so the thing can be removed from the nylon block. Then solder it and re-insert it. Sometimes you have to bend-up the brass tang so it will 'capture' the molded tab inside the nylon plug to hold-secure the brass connector once-again. If the wire falls-out of the nylon connector when you try to plug-together the male & female nylon plugs, then you have to bend that connector tang up so the connector is secure in the nylon plug, and so the male and female brass connectors will 'mate.'
This is very basic stuff, and when you solder be-sure to use some electrical resin flux (not acid flux, used for plumbing connections) and to work with shiny brass metal and a shiny copper wire where you are attempting to make your solder connection.
I have successfully re-used the brass connectors and you can too if you take a bit of time to plan things and to execute them. You may be able to un-crimp the factory connection if you have the patience and take your time.
I have a Dremel tool and using a brass or stainless-steel wheel to polish connectors before soldering is a quick way to go. A pair of hemostats is useful for holding small stamped parts like connectors while using a wire wheel on them.
Also the use of dielectric grease will help to stop corrosion if you apply it to both mating parts before plugging things back-together.
Yes that is definitely connected. I actually un bolted it and cleaned the connection and bolted it down tight. I have an 86 so there are three 30 amp fuses. [B]They all looked good, [/B]no signs that they has blown. The same goes for the four 10 amp fuses. They all looked good.
I am thinking that it may be a bad ground wire or something simple but not obvious.
Thank you all for your fantastic suggestions. I have high hopes to have the issues resolved before Sunday.
Who knows though... This project is now past the year marker...:bang head:
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