If you follow the links in my signature, I have links to several manuals and supplements. You should download all of them for reference and comparison.
The 82 Kz550A3 is about as "standard" and classic as a Kz550 can get, but you will still want to check supplements for the odd change etc. Depending on which "base" FSM you get, you will need the supplements for various things. The first Kz500/550 had points and quite a few other minor differences.
I've actually been to your site before, it's super helpful and packed with loads of useful information. I've been looking through the manuals, and the one drawback is that the 79-83 400/500/550 FSM isn't a searchable document. The 79-81 FSM that's listed contains searchable text, so I can use the Find function (ctrl+f) to quickly navigate to the information I'm looking for, but the 79-83 FSM requires scrolling through all the pages until you stumble upon the appropriate section. Do you know if there's a searchable pdf out there somewhere for the 79-83 FSM?
If not, I might be able to make one using Adobe Acrobat's Optical Character Recognition (OCR). I've tried it before, and the program struggled to convert the whole 420 page document, but if I were to convert just the final 70 pages that make up the 82-83 supplement, then combine it with the 79-81 base FSM, which is already searchable, then that could give us a fully searchable 79-83 manual. The question is, are the two base manuals the same, or are there changes even before the supplement? I didn't fully understand if that's what you were trying to say in your last reply.
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