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Message started by gurdog on 06/29/10 at 19:09:27

Title: Bigger gas tank?
Post by gurdog on 06/29/10 at 19:09:27

Is there any place to look for a bigger gas tank that can easily be swapped with the little stock tank? I have a 2001 savage and would like to not have to stop at the gas station every other day to put in $4 in gas.

Title: Re: Bigger gas tank?
Post by BurnPgh on 06/29/10 at 21:05:17

Many have used many different types of tanks as replacements. They all required frame modification and most were not very well documented. You're not going to find a straight swap out. At least no one has yet.

Title: Re: Bigger gas tank?
Post by babyhog on 06/30/10 at 05:12:22

I think I heard a Vulcan 750 tank is about the easiest, but still requires modification.

If you find something that works, please let us know! ;)

Title: Re: Bigger gas tank?
Post by Stimpy on 06/30/10 at 08:58:03

No matter what kind of tank you get it's gonna be a custom job,
so what I would do is to get another savage tank and do
what this guy did, look!!

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1259/img0006vr.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3407/img0044tz.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/185/img0060v.jpg

* I saw a cheap savage tank here last week:
http://stores.ebay.com/PinWall-Cycle-Parts-Inc_Suzuki-GZ250-Savage_W0QQ_fsubZ8039785QQ_sidZ12458664QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322

Good luck.

Title: Re: Bigger gas tank?
Post by james may on 06/30/10 at 09:07:43

That tank aint to pretty, but I'm sure it gets the job done. I think it is actually more work than fabbing up a few brackets to mount a different tank to your bike. It's a neat idea to keep the stock speedo and key gas cap with a bigger tank. You could probably do something similar and chop out the middle section of the stock tank while building a custom tank around it. The biggest thing that is chopping out all your room for gas is the spedo in the middle.. if you want to eliminate the speedo from the tank patching across the speedo hole would allow probably a few more quarts of gas with a very close to stock look.

Title: Re: Bigger gas tank?
Post by T Mack 1 - FSO on 07/01/10 at 07:16:07

I was thinking of doing something similar to the picutres but I would spread the rear out more (about 1 1/2 to 2 inches each side) and less on the front (maybe the same amount as back). Would also make the side walls near vertical since they angle in now and that's reduces capcity.