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82 gs550 No Power

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I recently bought a 1982 gs550. For starters it has no power at all I hooked up a new battery, turn the key, nothing no lights won't start. I hard wired the starter directly to the batter to make sure the starter works and it does. Starter is good. When I hook up the to the positive which runs to the starter relay and connect the ground there's no spark like it has a bad ground but the ground is good because when I hard wired it to the starter using that same ground it worked. I bought a new starter relay and replaced it hoping that was faulty but still same problem. I've been running wires for that past few days checking them the only one that was frayed was the wire running up to my ignition button on the handle bar and fixed it. Regardless the problem still stands and I don't understand why the connection is still bad. In theory the wires on the battery after I hook up the positive and touch the negative it should spark there but I'm getting nothing
 
Have you checked the fuses at all? The glass tube fuses that come on these bikes can break under the cap where you can't see them.
 
Yes I began rewiring the bike last night tracked down that I'm not getting any output from the fuse box itself so far only the headlight is what I have tested. I'm going to try and bar the wires on that connecter that hooks the fuse to the actual metal on them and see if I can get more of a connection. I'm going to have rewire the whole thing at this point but I might have figured it out. Hopefully.. will update later
 
So I rewired the bike power to all the places it needs to go to get the starter going from the bbattery to starter relay to starter and to the fuse boxes to the ignition switch to the starter button and killswitch then back down to the starter relay. After a few hours with a multimeter and redoing connections I kept blowing a fuse every time I got power all the way down to the starter relay. Last night I ran a little test by bypassing the starter relay and hooking in just a momentary switch for the starter itself looks like that's gonna be my way of starting it. The only thing I'm not sure how I'm going to do is hooking up the ignition coils. I have the wire from the killswitch I forked out to run to both coils for power but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to run the coils to the points. Any suggestions? Also the bike only has the necessary wires for legally and mechanically running the bike. Headlight taillight lights in tach/spedo starter fuse boxs rectifier.
 
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