1979 KZ750 Twin Resurrection

Thought I may as well start a thread with my progress.
I got this bike in a package deal with a lot of 7 other bikes. This one was a basket case
well after finding out some of the other bikes are going to be harder to get running (busted head bolt, and harley parts are expensive) I decided to resurrect the basket case that is the KZ750

Took the engine apart and started with a valve job after a leak down test said it needed to be done also very rusty on the inside

Got this done today like i said bike was sitting outside a long time pretty rusty!
Nothing a little work cant fix right up.






:woohoo:

Dont have a starter so I figured I could block the hole with an old chevy body mount some washers and 350 head bolt.

Waiting for my gasket kit valve seals and exhaust keepers. As soon as they arrive I will put the engine back together and document it. Possibly do a tutorial on the timing procedure. Checked my tranny and clutch plates and everything is doing as it should.. Now im jut scraping gaskets and prepping to put the engine back together probably dont need pics of that! haha. After the engine is together I will show a video of the first start up. And thats when I will see if my carbs need rebuilt. I took them apart and they appear t be very clean so Im going to leave them for now. only rebuild if i absolutely have to. I am also building up a kz305 cafe for my buddy and I will start a thread on that soon. Cheers and I will be back shortly!

Got my valve seals before


after





the old ones were just as brittle as everyone told me they would be

Got the valves and springs in. Still waiting on this gasket kit and they just shipped it today. Sucks that the company that sells the gasket kit is such a terrible company to deal with. So, I am still waiting on gasket kits to finish anything up. In the meantime I am trying to find a gas tank and shocks to use.

Getting the gasketmaterial off was a pain. However my gasket kit showed up yesterday !!!

Im at the point of getting the cylinder jug back on need 4 hands to do it. also finished building my buddies kz305 brat ill post some pics of that it has been whats delaying the progress here so pics soon!

Since the site has been down I have managed to get a lot done

I have managed to nearly finish this project and it has been great fun working on this bike over spring break. while the site was hacked i ran into some things i needed help with but waded through it. here is what I have now

Now after ruling that my coil is no good I am waiting on a coil to test fire the engine finally. I have tons of great compression when kick starting so I am confident it will run once I place a new coil in.