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Piki:

--- Quote from: orcadian on February 22, 2018, 02:18:30 PM ---By coincidence I have just zinc plated the one on my USA early 400/4 and it does have a rubber strap with wire loops attached - a bit like a smaller version of the battery strap and that supports the wiring loom to the lug on the frame. As far as it being called stay, speed unit, did the Jap (or other markets) version have one of those red light jobs (in the speedo) for 100kph.  My GB400 and GB500 had them plus a Jap spec Yam XJR1200.  Might have been some kind bracket for that.

Ian

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Yes you are right, I will try a pic from it........

K2-K6:
Anything to do with the USA limit at the time?

Wasn't there legislation around the fuel/energy crisis that imposed blanket speed limit or similar in American market.

Nurse Julie:
Yes Ken, and I have the strap attached to hold the harness in place. Trig says the black box is on the CB550 f1 & f2, which he says is a protective box for some of the loom. Trig also says the bit I'm on about may have had a speed relay or something to do with speed, fitted to it for the Jap market, which is what Orcadian suggested.

mike the bike:
There was a rubber boot that (sort of ) protected the bullet connectors which was stuffed into that bracket and held in place with a rubber strap.   It wasn't all that weather proof so I deleted it when I remade the loom.

MCTID:
I bought a Japanese Import CB750 around 2001 from BAT Motorcycles at Biggin Hill.....the later DOHC Nighthawk......which had a Speed Limiter fitted as it was a Japanese Home Market bike. It used to rev OK up to a point then it just died the death.........I took it to Box Hill Motorcycles who removed the Speed Limiter and it ran fine after.

Box Hill Motorcycles specialised in importing VFR 400 and CB 400 Fours (and other Japanese Pocket Rockets) at the time so I thought they were the best people to sort it. I never saw what - if anything - they removed/ altered, but it did the trick.

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