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750 K2 Strip & Rebuild - help please

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Lobo:
Wildo… thanks Trig.

Lobo:
There’s been a fair bit of discussion on the forums wrt home plating old nuts and bolts vs commercial plating….
Browsing Yamiya website yesterday, I noted CB750 bolt sets for the body & engine - at a price (and convenience) significantly cheaper than either of the above. (assuming a single bike restoration)

Comments / thoughts pls - on paper it seems the way to go in my case.

Johnny4428:
Seems a good idea as long as the kit contains like for like bolts that are correct for your bike and also would save a lot of fiddly cleaning/buffing. I purchased a general bolt kit from CMS and also cleaned and plated any fittings that were correct for bike and not had the “hairy ape” with the ill-fitting spanner treatment. (I had one or two of them)
The kit did contain the ones that I had to replace so was good. It would be very nice to get a bolt kit that contained washers and nuts IMO.

Trigger:
The frame bolt kit from Yamiya is for CB750K0, not for a K2 and the engine bolt kit only contains the JIS screws. There are many other nuts bolts and washers that all add up to lot of money, always better to replate the original Honda ones to keep the bike original  ;)

AshimotoK0:
I agree with Graham plus the Yamiya 750K0 kit is quite expensive (replicates early  67-69 JIS bolt head markings)  and many of the bolts are not true 'large figure 8' parts. Well that's how they were a few years back .. perhaps they have improved .. James will know  :) Also a lot of Genuine Honda bolts and ones sold by Yamiya  are heavily yellow/gold passivated. If you replate the bolts and  clear/blue passivate them,  then they look more like the original silverey finish with decent weather protection. I don't know when it changed but the bolts used to be cyanide process, zinc plated but are now bright zinc acid plated and passivated.

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