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What is this tool in our toolbag for?

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Oddjob:
Dunno DR, not that many 8mm nuts on the 500.

robvangulik:

--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on June 20, 2023, 03:14:10 PM ---Tappet adjuster lock nuts are smaller than 10mm on the 400/4, about 8mm if I remember correctly. That's why I think it is for a 400/4 tool kit and probably hundreds of other small Hondas.

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Tappet nuts on the 400 are 9 mm.

Oddjob:
You may well be right Rob, been 30 years or so since I last did tappets on a 400/4.

robvangulik:
I did them last week...and those of my 2 CBR's too, checked 40 valves, corrected just 2, all in all half an hours work :D

davidcumbria:

--- Quote from: Nurse Julie on June 20, 2023, 06:31:34 PM ---
--- 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)?

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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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Just bought a 26 mm socket for mine. I see these early 500s had that double hole wrench but it disappeared from later tool kits. Did later tool kits include a 26 mm wrench ( not the ones I’ve seen for sale ) or were Honda thinking you could undo with your teeth 🙂?

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