Mon, 22 Feb 1999 08:52:46 +0100 (MET) - Message No. 5063
From: Torsten Metzner

Subject: Re: Out dated shop manual ?



|I just bought me an original shop manual for my @. I got a RD07 '93, but the |shop manual is written in 1989. To my knowledge the RD07 was produced the first |time in 1993 ?!? Is the manual any good, or is it only cosmetical changes that |has been made to the @ from '89 to '93 ?

Hi Niels,
if you really bought an original shop manual I would change it,
because the original one is expensive and you have a right to get
the correct (best) one. If you bought it at your Honda dealer I think 
it is a bad sign that he give you a one which was produced in 1989.
I have the original one for the RD04 and there you will find:
 Copyright HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD. 1990
So it could be possible that you have got the one for the RD03 ??
I only know that there is also a original one available for the RD07.
The one for the RD07 seems to have the part no 64MY100 (?).
Have a look at: 
  http://www.atic.org/database/literature.html
My one have the part no 64MV100.

So coming to your original question. Here I can only say a few word,
because I am not an expert. Between the RD03 and the RD04 a lot of
things changed. E.g. the RD03 have a only a 650cccm motor, one brake disc 
in the front .. Between the RD04 and the RD07 the frame was completely 
changed. And a few parts (e.g the air filter) changed their place, small
changes in the electronic wiring and .. 
So I would really recommend to get the right one.

Hope this helps a little bit,

  ToM



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