Shovelhead ground
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Shovelhead ground
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I am doing a frame up restoration on a 1976 FLH. I am starting to go back with the electric and notice all grounds are through the frame.
Including all forward of the neck. Looking at the wiring diagram I see no ground path back to the frame for any of the components forward.
Looks like the circuit through the well greased neck bearings would be a bad path.
Looks like ti would be good to run a separate ground back from the triple tree at least back to the dash.
Thoughts??
I am doing a frame up restoration on a 1976 FLH. I am starting to go back with the electric and notice all grounds are through the frame.
Including all forward of the neck. Looking at the wiring diagram I see no ground path back to the frame for any of the components forward.
Looks like the circuit through the well greased neck bearings would be a bad path.
Looks like ti would be good to run a separate ground back from the triple tree at least back to the dash.
Thoughts??
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that was a common practice, all the forward grounded to a screw on the lower tree. no issue grounding through the bearings, not that much current flow. the light bucket should have a hot rivet to the harness to shell. the shell ground path is the that screw via the fork.
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