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Fuel Tank Replacement Idea
09/01/08 at 14:23:28

I sold my '03 Suzuki GZ250 to a friend and bought a '96 Savage. Today I was looking at the GZ250 tank and it sure looks like it would fit on the Savage. The tank bolt/seat front configuration looks the same. The GZ has a 3.7 gal capacity compared to the 2.9 gal capacity on the Savage. I'm going to try to talk him into letting me take his tank off and set it on my bike to see how it works. I'll keep you posted.

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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Fuel Tank Replacement Idea Reply #1 - 09/01/08 at 15:24:32 There's another guy here on this forum who is thinking of a GZ/LS tank swap. He has the GZ tank but I haven't heard if he has completed the mod yet.
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Skid Mark Serious Thumper Offline FSO Posts: 1216 Calgary, Alberta Gender:	Re: Fuel Tank Replacement Idea Reply #2 - 09/01/08 at 18:30:58 Please keep us up dated. I think the 1 big weakness on the Savage is the small tank. If the GZ swaps in easly, it would certainly be worth doing.
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Re: Fuel Tank Replacement Idea
Reply #3 - 09/02/08 at 12:06:35

savage_sax wrote on 09/01/08 at 14:23:28:

I sold my '03 Suzuki GZ250 to a friend and bought a '96 Savage. Today I was looking at the GZ250 tank and it sure looks like it would fit on the Savage. The tank bolt/seat front configuration looks the same. The GZ has a 3.7 gal capacity compared to the 2.9 gal capacity on the Savage. I'm going to try to talk him into letting me take his tank off and set it on my bike to see how it works. I'll keep you posted.

Also look at the front end. The Gz250 has the speedo pickup in the wheel. If the speedo cable would fit, it would be a nice swap for the chain conversion crew. It look like the brake is almost the same.......

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rigidchop Serious Thumper Offline don't feed the drama llama Posts: 1105 ravenswood wv Gender:	Re: Fuel Tank Replacement Idea Reply #4 - 09/02/08 at 18:20:08 i'm pretty sure that who ever was trying it said it wouldnt fit. i was looking through some old posts last week and came across a little tid bit of info. it seems that there was another savage forum awhile ago and one of the members successfully used a kawasaki vulcan tank, without much modification.
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