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help identifying loom
toucheturtle:
I think Bryan is saying the 550K0, 550K1 and 550K2 had the ignition key below the tank, from then the 550K3 and the 550F etc had the ignition between the clocks. The 500K2 seems to share a number of parts with the 550, like the larger clocks and little things like the top yoke bolts which clamp to the fork leg which are the larger 550 size.
toucheturtle:
I think the 500K3 was in fact a CB550 with a 500cc barrel.
Mitchv60:
--- Quote ---I'm thinking the plate on the headstock on Mitchs will be early 76 or late 75, maybe the PO bought what he was told was a 500 sub plate and then found it didn't have the same connections as he needed so altered it to fit, I still think it's a 550 sub plate though as looking at the sub plate off a 500K3 the clutch diode was as big as the fuse box, nothing at all like the 550 diode which was quite small in comparison.
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No it's a 72.The bike seems to have had a checkered past as it's been reframed at some stage so they've also butchered the electrics
Bryanj:
500 K3 never went to the USA only to mainland Europe, I have seen one, wrongly Identified by Honda as a 72 so the owner got historic tax---the difference is the frame number has a K after the CB500.
I have bought and sold several USA 550 K0/1/2 and they are identical to the USA 500K2 EXCEPT for the engine, wiring and starter interlock switch.
In all the years i have been working on Hondas I must say I have seen very few "F" model ones so the ignition switch may well be between the clocks but all the K model 550 UP TO the K3 had the switch under the Tank unless modified by the american owner
Bryanj:
There may be lots on the site but when i was spannering for a living at the Honda dealers in Glios they just didn't sell---like the K3 which was still available from Honda UK in a crate 2 years after they had been made, Thus, whilst I have seen them as i wasn't working on them regularly(unlike the 400/500/750) the differences didn't stick in the memory.
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