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Message started by BOBD on 10/13/12 at 12:09:15

Title: Gas Tank
Post by BOBD on 10/13/12 at 12:09:15

Has anyone made a 3 gal. plus reserve gas tank for the S40? I think the best way would be to modify the tank by cutting it in half and welding a piece down the middle. I don't have the equipment to do that. Has anybody on here tried it?

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/13/12 at 14:16:37

I do believe I remember a guy splitting a tank & doing that. Its been a coupla years, tho, No idea where those pics would be,

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by ALfromN.H. on 10/13/12 at 14:34:33

here's a picture of that tank. The guy that made it sold his bike and is no longer a member. The tank looked kinda big on the bike.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_r6B1TaHXuTE/Si17XYtR2gI/AAAAAAAAADI/rSENlvdeus4/s512/IMG_0060.jpg

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by BOBD on 10/13/12 at 14:40:11

Looks okay to me. I'd buy one if anyone had one and I had the money. It is a little wide, but I'd be okay with it, if it gets me farther down the road.

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by ALfromN.H. on 10/13/12 at 14:50:37

I found a couple pictures of the tank mounted on his bike. I knew I had some pictures around here somewhere
http://p1.bikepics.com/2012/10/13/bikepics-2467163-800.jpg
http://p1.bikepics.com/2012/10/13/bikepics-2467162-800.jpg

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by gerald.hughes on 10/13/12 at 14:52:07

Any idea how much gas it held?

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by BOBD on 10/13/12 at 15:00:13

Did not realize it was so squared off by the seat. Needs to be more rounded off.

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by ALfromN.H. on 10/13/12 at 15:04:19

575542515C541E584557585543300 wrote:

Any idea how much gas it held?

No idea

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/13/12 at 16:16:40

I think I could do the metalwork to make it look a lot more like an oversized Savage tank. I wouldnt want to be responsible for the leakproof welding.

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by Paladin. on 10/13/12 at 18:05:57

76505F504E4C761115250 wrote:

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by ToesNose on 10/13/12 at 19:10:45

I think cut horizontally and raising the rear slightly more with the addition would look nice. ;)

The other modified tank in the pics looks very awkward to me, I'm not sure what the inspiration was for it but it resembles a bat a bit :-?

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by BOBD on 10/14/12 at 04:43:47

17262B26232E29470 wrote:

[quote author=76505F504E4C761115250 link=1350155355/0#0 date=1350155355]Has anyone made a 3 gal. plus reserve gas tank for the S40? I think the best way would be to modify the tank by cutting it in half and welding a piece down the middle. I don't have the equipment to do that. Has anybody on here tried it?

I got a spare tank (old, dented, $1 off ebay) and go into cutting in half horizonally. Taped cardboard to see how it would look -- nice. I figured making it about 2 inches taller. You probably even notice it.

I was going to cut the top and bottom, move the gauges to the handlebar. As far as I could measure, I would end up with 4.5 gallons, get or take a half.

Then I started brazing the patch..... I need more practice..... It is still in half, rusting......[/quote]

That's what would happen to me if I had welding equipment. Also don't have a way of cutting it in half. I think I'll just leave it the way it is. I'm going to sell mine in a few years and buy this. http://spyder.brp.com/spyder-st/st/detail

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/14/12 at 06:48:18

Id say a guy could stop & get gas every day & not spend as much time as if they went to doing this mod. Ride it,

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by ALfromN.H. on 10/14/12 at 09:20:00

392620273A3D0C3C0C34262A61530 wrote:

Id say a guy could stop & get gas every day & not spend as much time as if they went to doing this mod. Ride it,

I agree. Before I put a corbin seat on mine, I'd have to stop every 100 miles due to a sore a$$ whether I needed gas or not.

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by Jack_650 on 10/14/12 at 21:57:37

I think it's kinda ugly myself. Take a look at the Harley NightTrain five gallon tank. It's what I switched to and I think it looks pretty good. It's not a radical change to the look of the bike to my eye, but it does take a bit of work to get everything back together.

http://www.bikepics.com/members/jazzcarter/00savage/

JC

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by Boofer on 10/14/12 at 22:49:25

It all depends on how you do it, but you should figure on a tank change as it relates to hitting the handle bars. Moto Guzzi has a tank around SEVEN gallons and BMW has one a tenth of a gallon more or less. I can just see filling up for $25. ;D

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/15/12 at 05:07:16

I dont want a bike that hauls over 50 POUNDS of gas,, Man,, thats enough to change the way things feel, wouldnya think?

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by Jack_650 on 10/16/12 at 08:23:21

All I know is that with the tanks both full, loaded with camping gear, and then with my 180 pounds of "muscle" thrown in my Sav rides like sitting on an armchair. It's stable, steers true and doesn't seem to react to anything less than heavy duty side wind gusts from a big storm. The big trucks on the highway, passing or meeting, don't give me any problems. Part of it I'm sure is the full windshield and the heavier duty shocks on the back. The only changes I noticed are that I went a lot farther before I had to stop for gas AND that a better seat makes a difference when you choose to go those extra non-stop miles.

All that extra weight on long trips might have been the reason I needed new fork seals at 27k miles though. But when you bounce a bike this size down the road on 4k miles trips to Florida from Minnesota and back a couple times I suppose new seals aren't all that unexpected.

Jack

Title: Re: Gas Tank
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 10/16/12 at 11:15:24

Keep the tubes clean. Dried bug guts arent good