Honda-SOHC

Just had a real quick look before we get ready to go out and it seems as though these early bikes might not have had a clutch switch.

There’s also a brown wire and a green and red wire both free and not connected in the headlight bucket and after a really quick look at the wiring diagram I think these may not be connected to anything either, could be pains over if I’m lucky???

Will have a few hours to muddle through something tomorrow, thanks for all the input, much appreciated.

You know what Ted, that could make sense as there definitely wasn’t one when I dismantled the bike, has a brake switch that looks jut like that though.

Off to get the parts manual!

I am after the above clip described as an 8 mm pin in the parts book ideally in stainless.

Can anyone tell me where I might be able to source a couple of these at sensible money?

In the short term I could use a split pin - I prefer to use the original style of clip - not sure what they are an called S pin?

I think the back story qualifies it for an Out & About Ted👍

As an addendum to the story way back in 1969/70 I collected a brand new Mini Cooper S from Kennings on Queeen street Derby using trade plates (closed decades ago) it was a blue & white one. I drove the vehicle to the garage were I was working during the summer holidays - a Vauxhall Dealer (Allsops)on Bold Lane Derby. The vehicle was bought by an 18 year old lad - yes it was Neil Wheal.

Never saw the Neil or the car until 1973/4 when I saw it advertised in the local paper. I viewed the car but it had a cracked sump that had been bodged with glass fiber - at that time I had no facilites to remove the engine to fix it so I put my best mate onto the car as it was a one owner vehicle. The photo below is me (Navigator) with my mate at the start of the local DFS rally start line - circa 1974/5  yep it was Neils Cooper S - its a small world.

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thank you Johnny, the old gasket is completely damaged beyond measurement, had to scrap off, but thank you for the tip