Hi All,
Another idea from the brain trust for our Street Tracker. I like the side profile of the Ryca tank but do not like how wide it is, or the hole for the speedo that gets covered by the metal plate. In their quest for using the original parts at all cost, they lost me. I don't mind haunting junkyards for parts.
What I found was a tank off a Suzuki GS450L I think it is anyway. I went with the same brand as the frame splits under the tank into two tubes. That makes it hard to find a tank to fit over the rails. I'm not trying to go with the bobber Sportster look with the tank on top of the frame.
In a previous post I mentioned this tank and the consensus from you smart people was that it wasn't that much different in shape from the original Savage tank. I agree that it looked too big for the Street Tracker look.
Was over at my brother's today inspecting his turbo Pinto motored Morris Minor and showed him the pics of the Ryca tank mod. He said if I would cut off the bottom of the GS tank, he could weld it up. He would even guarantee it wouldn't leak for 5 miles or 5 minutes, whichever came first.
I did some sketching and here is what I came up with. The GS tank is on the top, the Ryca mod Savage tank on the bottom. Cutting an inch or so off the bottom of the GS tank seems like it may make for an attractive item. Look at the top views on the right. No ugly hole in the middle that has to be covered with a plate and the GS tank is much narrower.
Considering the Ryca costs of cutting the tank and the cover plate I figure I can buy and screw up quite a number of other tanks. Moreover, I get to keep the stock tank in case I need to abandon the project and go back to stock.
Any thoughts, people before I fire up the angle grinder?
John in Kalifornia