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Offline Yonash

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Tips for key situation?
« on: June 19, 2010, 10:31:11 AM »
Okay, so I am on the home stretch on finally getting my bike completely reassembled, though by no means done, so i can ride it in the mean time between various projects. So i have a functioning ignition, works fine, looks great, and i have 2 keys for it. now here is the problem, my gas cap latch lock decided to puke it's guts out and they went bouncing around the garage floor, and there was no lock cylinder in my seat lock. btw the bike is a 1979. is the cut of the key vital for the seat and gas locks? i really don't have the money to buy a brand new matching set of ignition and both of those locks with keys, so i was looking at some used pieces on ebay. i can get each lock pretty cheap without keys, while the prices aren't too bad to buy them with keys either. problem there is i really don't want a different key for everything. if i order the parts without keys, will my keys still work, just being cb keys with the proper shape of the shank? or is the cut of the teeth crucial? i have heard any key regardless of cut will work in the seat and gas locks, just the ignition is the picky one. but i wanted to ask and find out for sure.
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Offline octagon

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Re: Tips for key situation?
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2010, 01:49:25 PM »
my experience with the seat lock on a 76 750k was that it took some kind of simple key - was fairly easy to grind a blank close enough by feel to wiggle it around and make it work. but i took the lock apart and pulled the brass pins off the locking barrel with a visegrip, so i could use any blank key or screwdriver. the gas cap on my bike opened with a screwdriver or pocketknife already - don't know if they do that stock. for some reason the gas cap lock turns clockwise to open, but the seat lock turns counterclockwise. 

Offline Bodi

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Re: Tips for key situation?
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2010, 09:58:38 AM »
The gas cap has a latch, not a lock. Originally it had a latch button but some tanks opened via balls contact in collisions, bathing the engine plus the privates of the rider with gasoline... so there was a recall on existing caps and a production change.
Anything key shaped will open the gas cap latch.
The seat locks are keyed to the ignition key but may have fewer pins than the ignition lock.