Took the tank off the bike today and messed around a bit with a five gallon Harley tank off of a softail. I'm pretty sure I can make it work, but it will involve some surgery that will pretty much assure that the old tank won't go back on as I will have to remove the two welded on rods with the rubber wheels that hold the stock tank in place. There's also some electrical stuff that'll need to be moved as well, such as the solenoid, but I would think that's no biggie.

Getting a bit nervous about "what if it don't work" and it's so close but no cigar time. The gap in the tank looks wide enough to slide down over the frame, but it's not a sure thing until those to posts get cut off. The tank's a couple inches longer than stock, but I was thinking of moving the seat back a bit anyway for more leg room. Anyone done this "surgery" before or have any ideas about getting things back to being able to re-do the stock tank if need be? It sounds like some of you guys have done quite a bit of cut-and-paste on your bikes from what I've been reading in here.

Thanx in advance.

Take a little time to measure ACCURATELY the tunnel on the HD tank and compare to the frame backbone with and without the stock tank mounts.  You will be able to assure yourself that it will fit or not after the mounts are removed, before you actually remove them.  
It is not difficult, just takes a little time.

azDebraD hide the poor savage looks like somebody is giving it the eye and thinking of more torture!

The couple i've tried to fit keep running into problems where the frame widens at the end of the square back bone tubing.  The HD tanks that I've had my hands on are not wide enough to fit over the spread  there...

Reelthing wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:


i don't think that is a problem because i hide it under my butt all the time.    he might get to have it after i am either on my H D or next summer when it is to hot to ride for me.

Jack_650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:


The wireless bicycle comp will NOT work due to interference with the ignition.
Fit one with a wire and put the indicator lights on/in the upper triple tree.
Remove the speedocable alltogether and plug the connection on the block.

Greetz
Kropatchek

LED indicator lights

if your connections are good, the wire doesn't care how long it is, in this short application. go for it

Jack_650 wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:11:
The picture first has to be placed in Internet addressable space -- bikepics.com, your own website, or your share of savageriders.com ($10/2 years, includes e-mail.)  Can you FTP your pictures onto a site?  (Do MACs have an FTP client that makes copying files between you and FTP sites easy? -- they gotta have!)  We need pictures!

Once the pictures are Internet accessable pasting them into a message is simply (square brackets instead of curly):  {img}http://address.of.picture/picture.jpg{/img}