Anyone know the best tool to get to remove a large egg sized dent in the curved part of the gas tank, nearest to the filler cap on the side?

The cops said I'm not allowed to have any guns..

Gonna give that a try, and then hopefully a new paint job.. bike fell off the bike jack wit no handle bars on it.. smashed rear turn signal and big old dent in the tank.. set me forward on my bobber style at least

If youd post a pic, Ill tell you what youll have to do. Sounds to me like you need a body man or a tank, I have a dent in mine from Catching it when it was falling,, I cant imagine the crushing the tank would get from a fall like you describe,

Youll need a very light hammer & a very careful hand. Every dent creates an eyebrow around it, a high spot. If youll get a piece of wood, hard wood, like 1/2" X 3/4 & 6 or 8 long & shape the face to eliminate hard edges, You can pull with the crossbar from the bottom of that dent & using light quick taps work around that eyebrow. As you work that down, the low spot will come up & the eyebrow will walk to the center.
IF & considering the size of the dent, I wouldnt be surprised to see the suction cup wont pull hard enough to do this,  you can drill a hole in the low point & get a T hook from a body shop supply, or make one. Anyway, you have to pull on the dent while you gently spank the eyebrow. Light quik taps, LIGHT taps, Its better to take too long than make it worse,

Go to a body shop & look around at the employees, see if you see anyone you want to talk to. Go to shops till ya do, if ya see a bike,, well,, thats a good sign,
Some of those guys just want to make $$$, some of them like to see people try to learn & will help.,theyre just like everyone else,,

You can even rent a tool that welds a brad onto the metal, & it comes with a slide hammer that grips the brad, so, no hole.. Now, does that glowing red metal have the potential to blow the tank? IDK!! So,, take precautions or just dont do that,, How to plug the hole if you drill? IDK,, so,, before you do that,, know how youll fill it, safely.

YOu can also ask the shop owner for a fender or any bent piece so you can practice with your hammering before you work on your tank,,
Have a look at body hammers online, they look a lot like a silversmiths hammer,
Leave your caveman at home, let the secretary swing the hammer,.its wrist stuff, forearm hardly moves at all.

Also, thats really a pretty hard crease, it may have stretched the metal some. Heat is the usual answer to shrinking metal, using a brazing tip, heating a dime sized area, it swells up, ya spank it a couple of times to flatten it, then quench with a wet rag.. BUT,, I shrunk a door on a car that had a fancy interior I wasnt able to remove. A punch with a pointed but not sharp end, like a pencil that isnt fresh out of the sharpener, but not time to sharpen again, either,, right when its writing a nice solid line,,It takes some work & technique, IF you need it, Ill explain it later, its a pot of typing,

Good Luck, man, Ill bet you wanted to puke when you saw that,,bummer, dude,,


YOu might just be ahead to take it to a shop & be done with it,.,.

Nope,, it wont,, & itll be stretched pretty bad Id bet,, You cant position your blows strategically from inside, youd be ahead to go visit a few bodyshops till you find someone who does work at home,

Well,, I made a living as a bodyman for 3 years. Im far from the best, Im not even close, but from the location of that dent & the eyebrow I see in the distortion in the unbent part as it comes to the dent, Id say thats a hard crease & just pulling wont begin to fix it,
Again, Id go visdit some shops & see if I could find someone who does bodywork at home,,I worked with guys who did that & they worked pretty cheap. If you want to do the bondo, thats a place to save some $$$, but Ive never seen anyone without training, w/o someone showing them how, win in a reasonable amount of time,,Need a sanding block, too.
By the time you buy all the stuff & learn how to do it, you will have spent $$$ & time you could have spent elsewhere.. & really,,, when will you need what you will learn? Ive gone thru a few learning curves & paid for that School of Hard KNocks & realized I should have just hired it done,, or gone & bought what I was "Saaavin Munney" by building,,

This could be a great opportunity to ride over to some guys place with a 12 pack & work with him & learn some stuff,, savin $$, helping the guy..

Heck of a lot easier than fixin that dent, but Id bet you could get it fixed for less than a tank. If you want to go that route, you mite look for a used one, gonna have to paint, either way,
You know,, the bike isnt ruined, you can ride like that & hunt for the best answer & fix it next winter,,