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Maybe buying a CB750 need advice

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Bryanj:
The only known "bad" point on the F2 was that they wore out exhuast valve guides quickly, the replacements were supposed to be harder and last longer but I cannot verify that from first hand. At that mileage they should have already been done as originals were lucky to last till 30,000, unfortunately the only way to find out is to see how much oil the engine burns in use. If they do need doing you are looking at at leat £500 assuming you do all the diss and re assembly

UK Pete:
Hi Damian, pay as little as you can for the bike as the cost of getting it right might be quite high depends on what sort of standard you want to get, if going for original then it will cost loads, if your happy with just having it as a mot able runner with non original parts then you might get away without spending to much, as brian says the exhaust valve guides can be quite expensive to have done so you want to hope they are ok, i have a few of these F2 models and they are definetely the most refined , best handling and braking of all the 750 SOHC bikes, they are slowly creeping up in value but then so are the spares to rebuild them , good thing is they are easy to work on and most of the parts are available for them , hard to get parts are original exhaust and front  mudguard
pete

Oldiron550:
Thank for all the advice so far, I hope to take another look at the CB in a couple of days I think it's worth somewhere between £500 to £700 the more I can save the more I can spend getting it back on the road. I was really after an early 70's model when I stumbled on this F2. I know the "K " would cost me triple what I'm hoping too pay for this F2.
I will let you all know how I get on over the next few days.

Cheers.

DC



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