Well, I have finally plastic gaged the crank shaft and the con rods and know which bearings need to be ordered.
Now I believe comes the fun part, the "piston rings". I have seen the CB750F 850 kits, but the 600.00 kit at CBR Zone is way to much for me and the kit sold by Cycle X would require the purchase of a new cam (200.00), and not to mention the machining cost of the sleeves. I just noticed that Cycle X is now offering a 1st & 2nd Over Piston Kit which includes rings and wrist pins, but with my luck these will not work on the F models.
While on this journey I have read of some other board members which have had their existing pistons grooves machined to except the "K model Rings", so I ordered a set from Z1. I thought that this would be a pretty good solution because of the availability of the "K Rings" so I received the K model rings and took some quick comparison measurements between my "F Rings" and the "K Rings" and here is what I got,
*Old Rings: #1= .046 in./ #2= .046 in./ #3 A-.018 in., B-oiler ring=.070 in., C-.018 in.
*New Rings: #1= .057 in./ #2= .057 in./ #3 A-.017 in., B- oiler ring= .072 in., C- .017in.
I am hoping that perhaps the members which have done this could chime in and perhaps give me the contact info of the shop that did the work so that I could have mine done this way.
Here is a pic of the oiler rings, the one on the left is from my 1978 CB750F and the one on the right is the standard rings I ordered from Z1.
Thanks, any and all help/ info is greatly appreciated.
