@AlphaDogChoppers;@gk45011
Thanks guys,
I appreciate your experience and advice. If this would have been the S model, I probably would not have even touched the bike except to find someone who could restore it to a "like new" condition. Recently a guy in Minneapolis posted a 1971 CB750 K1 for sale. He had a few things done to it, but it had some top end issues. He posted it for 750 dollars... I looked at all the photos and actually told him.. "yes, I will buy this bike from you..., but man... honestly if you love that bike you should do it some honor and sell it for a little more money to someone who knows what it is for, worth, and will love it as much as you do" I then told the guy to Email Carpy over at cb750cafe.com and tell him what was wrong with it and ask him what he should sell it for. I once started a build on a 78 cb750... Carpy wrote me a few times when I was asking for advice. Nice guy.. Anyways... I guess the point I am making is I do know that respect and honor goes into motorcycles and they are not always just to be torn down and chewed up.
Whatever work I start on this project is going to be finished, and work. I am not going to take this bike down to parts and get stuck.
The main reason I got on this site was to talk to people like you and hear your feed back and take in your motorcycle wisdom. I tried going down this road earlier in life thinking I could just do it without help or advice and that was the most ignorant attempt I had made at anything mechanical.
I still have the airbox, the guy I bought it from had it removed and the exhaust too. His exact words were "it leaked from the side of the engine, me and a friend tried to put new gaskets on it and it ended up leaking worse. it also isnt charging right anymore" I asked him if he road the bike daily before that and he said yes. He was a nice and easy going kinda guy, but he was not a mechanic and I could tell that he was not experienced at working on motorcycles.
I am prone to make "new builder mistakes"... so that is going to happen, but I will be wrenching on this thing until it is road worthy before I even sit on it. I feel in many ways that I have to earn the right to really be a part of this Cafe Racer culture and a motorcyclist. Many of my friends who own bikes, buy brand new and have no idea what anything does. It breaks and they store it until they can fix it or they sell it. I can't help but want every little drop of the motorcycle feeling to be part of me. So... Please keep the advice coming, I actually had sent off a request to a company to make me a new set of Jets a few weeks ago.. they asked me my altitude, make and model and what modifications I had made to the bike. I told them I was replacing the airbox with after market filters. I just got the package today and its out in my car. I will go get it in a few minutes here and post a photo and some info. Could be another waste of money. I saw a set of Stock carbs on Ebay last night that looked in AMAZING condition for a little over 85 dollars after shipping and was tempted to get them for a back up.
I knew before starting this project that I was most likely going to spend more money then I planned. If money was the main concern, I would not even started this project... it is one of the issues, but the main thing for me is the general task of bringing this project to a realistic state of completion. I am just going step by step, and piece by piece.
Thanks again guys!
