Help identify my CB450 stator wires

[CatDad]

I am installing a new wiring harness and am having trouble identifying the wires running from the stator. Wiring diagrams show them as pink, white and yellow. On my bike they appear more like brown, green and white (yellow/red in pic is neutral indicator). This post on HondaTwins (http://www.hondatwins.net/forums/57-electrical-discussion/16379-cb450-stator-wire-colours.html) partially covers the topic but never concludes which colors are which. Thanks for the help.

 

[Sonreir]

Some of the early 450s did use different colors. The K0 and K1, I think.

The colors for those years should be Brown, Yellow, and Pink.

The old color wires serve the same purpose as the new color, so the rough mapping from old to new is:
Brown - Pink
Yellow - Yellow
Pink - White

You can identify each wire by how its resistance measures up against the other two.

The brown and yellow combo will have the highest resistance. Usually between one and 1.5 Ohms. Brown and pink should have the lowest at around .5 Ohms. And that leaves pink and yellow at somewhere in the middle.

 

[CatDad]

Thanks. I will try checking the resistance tonight. The bike is a K6 so I am not sure why it would have the older color wires.

 

[Sonreir]

Sometimes those wires fade due to the heat of the engine. I had three white wires when I took apart my 360.

 

[CatDad]

I got out the ohmmeter and confirmed the color matchup that Sonreir suggested. Here is a pic of the resistance and how they wires match up to the correct diagram colors.