Just picked up this beauty on ebay - i actually am planning on just keeping the finish as is I think, unless it needs some actual work to keep it from rusting through. it is from a 1969 Suzuki T250.

Just a few questions about this thing - anyone know if I can just use my stock petcock and swap it over?
I still need to buy a new cap and emblems eventually.
Has anyone mounted this tank to a Savage frame before?

Reproduction Decals- tank emblems.
Pricey, but very high quality.
http://www.reproductiondecals.com/default_frameset.html?content.html~main
Go to badges, click on Suzuki, and they are near the bottom.

I just read in your other post that that tank is from a '69 T250.
I'll bet it's nearly identical to my T350 tank from the same year; the outer shape is a little different, but the tunnel is probably similar.

I'll definitely be interested to see how you fit it onto the frame. If you go through my build thread, you'll see my so-called friend, Jay, cut my frame all up to get the tank on, but honestly, I think he went about it all wrong.

It's not a perfect fit at all, but I do think that you can get it on there and looking good by hammering in the inside of the tank to match the frame rather than doing major frame surgery. If I had to start all over now, that's definitely the route I would go. The frame surgery is now causing me more headaches in other ways... NOT the smart route if you ask me.

(Jay never told me what he was up to; he just started cutting my bike all up without telling me... In fact, he did such a lousy job, I may have to get someone else to repair what he started. Really got burned on that deal.)

I can tell you that it fits on pretty good now, and the fitment was really close even before things got cut up. One thing I was hoping for was to be able to use the Compression release solenoid, but the tunnel isn't wide enough inside for it to work (Again, maybe if I hammered at it a bit, but I'm just going to ditch it and use a manual lever instead) If anything, I imagine the T250 tank will be smaller inside than the T350, but I'm not that familiar with either bike as a whole; just the tanks!

Looking forward to see what you come up with!

If I had to do it over again; even if I had to have someone cut out and re-weld the inside of the tank, I'd rather do surgery on the tank than on the frame. It's a lot easier to get another tank if you have to...

I still think you can do it with a ball-peen hammer, time, patience, and maybe a beer or two, without having to do any welding....

Late HD petcocks are 22mm or 19mm fine thread. Standard pitch to the tank bung, reverse thread pitch inside the petcock body.

Ancient metrics tended to be in that range or a very coarse whatever is basically the same as 3/8" pipe thread...

teabowl13 wrote on 07/26/12 at 14:17:14:

did you have a chance to see if it fits?
i have not ordered a new petcock yet...looking to get one this week hopefully.

what are orther ones I could use that will fit this T250 tank?

teabowl13 wrote on 07/29/12 at 22:10:40:

Know apof any that are smaller? I have not fit my tank yet but im betting having the petcock out of the way will help a lot when i try to fit tye tank.

I got the new tank and had a chance to try to see how it is going to fit.

There is definitely going to be a lot of work to be done for the tank to clear where the frame splits. I am not sure how I can hammer the tunnel of the tank without damaging the visible bottom part of it? The "seam" part of the tank seems hard to hammer in without damaging it.

This is going to be a lot of work overall to get this thing to fit on the frame. I do not have a welder yet to make new tank posts and a bracket for the rear, but I think this is the easiest part of getting this to fit. Hammering the inside of the tank is what is worrying me the most right now. This tank looks so cool that I don't want to give it up!