CB500 clutch cable question

[petersy]

Does anyone know when Honda changed the clutch cable from the right hand side of the early CB500 engine to the left hand side please?

[Trigger]

Does anyone know when Honda changed the clutch cable from the right hand side of the early CB500 engine to the left hand side please?

Never seen a 500 Four engine with the clutch cable on the right. The 550 has it on the right.

[hairygit]

I'm sure they didn't, the 500 had the cable on the left, it moved to the right when it was bored out to become the CB550. 

[SteveD CB500K0]

.. and all that just to get rid of that pesky clutch pushrod!

[petersy]

Thanks for the info guys.

[Bryanj]

There was a 500K3 that was a sleeved down 550K3 and that had the clutch cable on the right BUT that model was never imported by Honda UK---there are a few out there, including one that they gave the wrong build year to and got registered 1971/2.

The engine canh not be "converted" as the clutch covers(and crankcase) are adifferent shape at the join of the two