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What is this tool in our toolbag for?
deltarider:
Definitely the adjusters at the handlebars are 8mm.
The tool was in CB500 toolbags, looong time before the CB400F (or CB350F for that matter) arrived.
Another question: what was the WRENCH AXLE extra's eye about? https://www.cmsnl.com/products/wrench-axle_89202283000/ 26mm probably for the rear axle. Could the second one have been 23mm to advance the special cranknut (behind the ignition cover)?
Nurse Julie:
--- Quote from: deltarider on June 20, 2023, 06:21:23 PM ---Definitely the adjusters at the handlebars are 8mm.
The tool was in CB500 toolbags, looong time before the CB400F (or CB350F for that matter) arrived.
Another question: what was the WRENCH AXLE extra's eye about? https://www.cmsnl.com/products/wrench-axle_89202283000/ 26mm probably for the rear axle. Could the second one have been 23mm to advance the special cranknut (behind the ignition cover)?
--- End quote ---
That tool was not included in the CB500/4 tool bag. Here is a photo of my owners handbook for a CB500/4, printed in 1971 and that part is not included.
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Oddjob:
That's a pic of an early model CB500, after 2034712 it was included in the toolkit and they ditched the double bar wrench.
I was referring to the adjusters near the carbs DR, AFAIK there is only one cable with the adjuster near the bars and that is indeed 8mm.
mickwinf:
beat me to it Ken! interestingly the later toolkit only has 2 spanners where the early one like Julies has 3, including a 8mm size, the later one only has 10x12 and 14x17 so maybe they included the 8mm on the bar to compensate?
deltarider:
OK, one 8mm wrench was succeeded by another, so... the correct question - in general - should be: why did Honda think it necessary to supply an 8mm wrench in a CB500 toolkit?
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