Any tips on removing the white caution sticker from the gas tank?  I know I've seen some things in the past, but wanted to be sure before I attemped.. I DON'T want to screw this up!

Thanks!!

If WD-40 and a blow dryer are the tried and true method of other folk who have removed the sticker from their Savage... I'd bow to that suggestion and use it.

However, on the general subject of removing labels and the glue crud from them... the tried and true method amongst people who work on guitars is "Zippo" lighter fluid to remove the stubborn stickers that pawn shops often put on them. Guitars can have any kind of finish from a nitro lacquer to polyurethane, and I've never seen the Zippo fluid damage any finish.

Another handy tip: Someone recently mentioned using starting fluid "ether" to help get their bike started. DON'T use that stuff!!! It is intended for use in diesel engines with much higher compression ratio, and no spark plug, only a 'glow plug' to assist in starting. Ether can damage a small engine. It's notorious for blowing head gaskets. WD-40 is a great starter fluid for stubborn lawn mowers and motorcycles, I even use it on car engines and it will do no damage. Even lubes as you crank the engine.

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:


If I ever need a dent sucked in a tank, you'll get first call. There's nothing worse than a talent wasted.  

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05:


You got a good point there. I'm not sure how comfortable I'd be heating a fuel tank.

Knowing how you (Greg) enjoy my 'stories'... I'll have to tell you the one about the Yam DT-250, the gas can, and the fool with the Zippo that caused me to lose my eyelashes and about half my eyebrows when I was 15...

On second thought, you might enjoy that story too much, even though there was no risk of the tank getting a dent sucked in it.