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rem1859:
I bought a project bike that had been paritally Cafe Racered!  The PO told me they had bought the engine complete but never had it running.  It appeared to be in quite good cosmetic condition, but had been left to stand for 5 years, so some corrosion had started.  I did get it to start without too much trouble, but it leaked a lot of oil coming from the front of the cylinder head, so I knew I had to strip it to investigate.

Cutting a long story short when I stripped the top end I found that it had been recently rebuilt, but not well!  And best of all it had 812 Yoshimura pistons.  BUT.  The bores are a little marked, with a couple of scratches, which seemed to be caused by undersized piston rings.  When I checked the ring gaps they were nearly 2mm instead of the 0.2 to 0.4mm they should be, I think this was causing the marks.

When I measured the tops of the bores, and the pistons before removing them I found that they were 64.4mm and 63.95 respectively which I felt was going to mean the bores where too big for the pistons, hence the big ring gaps.

However now I have removed the pistons and measured the bores using a dial gauge, I have found some interesting things which are confusing me. 

The bores actually are very well sized at 64.5mm, being very consistently sized top to bottom and in both directions across.  Which I thought meant the bores would be too big for the pistons.  But when I measured the pistons I found that they were 64.4mm across the thrust sides just below where the pin goes through.  So with .1mm clearance I think the pistons should be OK. 

The measurement across the head of the piston above the rings is 63.95mm which really threw me.  Along with the massive ring gaps.

I wonder if anybody else has any experience of Yoshi pistons?  I expected them to measure around 63.95 to give 64mm bore, so the extra .45mm is a bit of a surprise.  I don't have appropriate piston rings, so I am trying to work out what to buy.  I suspect that the rings that were in it were standard CB350 ones, but have no way of telling. 

Has anybody any experience of these pistons that can give me some advice?  I am thinking of buying oversize CB350 rings but don't know if this would work.

I will try to put a video of what I have found out so that you can see the issues I am having with this engine.  I really want to try to get it as a runner this summer, but without rings I wont be able to do that.


Update:
For those who are interested, I have a series of videos following this CB750 project bike on Youtube here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZCsrCcblKI_sOuZow0mNHIz0wBBN3Wr_

And here's the video where I discover the pistons: https://youtu.be/LJYek5UFTps

Bryanj:
0.1 mm piston to bore clearance is too big i think, thats 4 thou

Trigger:
As Bryan has already stated, it has been over bored. Quite a common problem when a machine shop does not know the silicone content of the alloy piston or the spec for piston to bore clearance. 
Your measurement of 64.4 needs to more .400 to be accurate and every bore will measure with a difference, also you need to measure the skirt of the piston for a true measurement   ;)

If it has Yoshi pistons it should have the oversize Yoshi liners. If it has standard Honda bore with that much over boring, there is a big risk of the liner's cracking.

rem1859:
I have seen so much conflicting information about piston clearance.  I was left with the impression that .1mm would be at the top end of the useable range for 64mm pistons.  Going off the .0015" for each inch of bore that I have seen mentioned. 

I want to have a working engine, not one for racing, or even for long distance, I was thinking that the combination I have might work.  I am going to buy some better measuring equipment, but it doesn't really matter if I can't work out what piston rings to buy. 

I would consider a different barrel to have bored correctly, or resleeving, but I can't find any solid information that I could use to get this done for these piston.  I was surprised to find that the flanks of the pistons were 64.4 for supposedly 64mm pistons.  The pistons have 812 PopY on one side and Yoshimura in Japanese on the other.

The engine has a 410 head, and I think the barrels are for the same F series model, but I am not sure.

Trigger:
Is this a CB750 F2 SOHC engine ?

If you want it for road use, just get a standard set of barrels and a new piston kit at 0.50 oversize, get it rebored with a one thou piston to bore clearance  ;)

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