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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Gas Tank 10/13/12 at 12:09:15 Has anyone made a 3 gal. plus reserve gas tank for the S40? I think the best way would be to modify the tank by cutting it in half and welding a piece down the middle. I don't have the equipment to do that. Has anybody on here tried it?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Gas Tank Reply #1 - 10/13/12 at 14:16:37 I do believe I remember a guy splitting a tank & doing that. Its been a coupla years, tho, No idea where those pics would be,
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #2 - 10/13/12 at 14:34:33 here's a picture of that tank. The guy that made it sold his bike and is no longer a member. The tank looked kinda big on the bike.
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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #3 - 10/13/12 at 14:40:11 Looks okay to me. I'd buy one if anyone had one and I had the money. It is a little wide, but I'd be okay with it, if it gets me farther down the road.
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #4 - 10/13/12 at 14:50:37 I found a couple pictures of the tank mounted on his bike. I knew I had some pictures around here somewhere
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gerald.hughes Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline FSO Posts: 1100 Tucson, Az Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #5 - 10/13/12 at 14:52:07 Any idea how much gas it held?
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BOBD Full Member Offline Posts: 170 Blacklick, Ohio Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #6 - 10/13/12 at 15:00:13 Did not realize it was so squared off by the seat. Needs to be more rounded off.
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #7 - 10/13/12 at 15:04:19 gerald.hughes wrote on 10/13/12 at 14:52:07: Any idea how much gas it held? No idea
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Gas Tank Reply #8 - 10/13/12 at 16:16:40 I think I could do the metalwork to make it look a lot more like an oversized Savage tank. I wouldnt want to be responsible for the leakproof welding.
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Re: Gas Tank
Reply #9 - 10/13/12 at 18:05:57

BOBD wrote on 10/13/12 at 12:09:15:

Has anyone made a 3 gal. plus reserve gas tank for the S40? I think the best way would be to modify the tank by cutting it in half and welding a piece down the middle. I don't have the equipment to do that. Has anybody on here tried it?

I got a spare tank (old, dented, $1 off ebay) and go into cutting in half horizonally. Taped cardboard to see how it would look -- nice. I figured making it about 2 inches taller. You probably even notice it.

I was going to cut the top and bottom, move the gauges to the handlebar. As far as I could measure, I would end up with 4.5 gallons, get or take a half.

Then I started brazing the patch..... I need more practice..... It is still in half, rusting......

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ToesNose Serious Thumper Offline Pardon me, do you have Hot Sauce? Posts: 1993 Mooresville, NC Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #10 - 10/13/12 at 19:10:45 I think cut horizontally and raising the rear slightly more with the addition would look nice. The other modified tank in the pics looks very awkward to me, I'm not sure what the inspiration was for it but it resembles a bat a bit
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Re: Gas Tank
Reply #11 - 10/14/12 at 04:43:47

Paladin. wrote on 10/13/12 at 18:05:57:

BOBD wrote on 10/13/12 at 12:09:15:

Has anyone made a 3 gal. plus reserve gas tank for the S40? I think the best way would be to modify the tank by cutting it in half and welding a piece down the middle. I don't have the equipment to do that. Has anybody on here tried it?

I got a spare tank (old, dented, $1 off ebay) and go into cutting in half horizonally. Taped cardboard to see how it would look -- nice. I figured making it about 2 inches taller. You probably even notice it.

I was going to cut the top and bottom, move the gauges to the handlebar. As far as I could measure, I would end up with 4.5 gallons, get or take a half.

Then I started brazing the patch..... I need more practice..... It is still in half, rusting......

That's what would happen to me if I had welding equipment. Also don't have a way of cutting it in half. I think I'll just leave it the way it is. I'm going to sell mine in a few years and buy this. http://spyder.brp.com/spyder-st/st/detail

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Gas Tank Reply #12 - 10/14/12 at 06:48:18 Id say a guy could stop & get gas every day & not spend as much time as if they went to doing this mod. Ride it,
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ALfromN.H. FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Dragon Slayer Posts: 1421 Rochester, New Hampshire Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #13 - 10/14/12 at 09:20:00 justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/14/12 at 06:48:18: Id say a guy could stop & get gas every day & not spend as much time as if they went to doing this mod. Ride it, I agree. Before I put a corbin seat on mine, I'd have to stop every 100 miles due to a sore a$$ whether I needed gas or not.
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Jack_650 Senior Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 463 Minnesota Gender:	Re: Gas Tank Reply #14 - 10/14/12 at 21:57:37 I think it's kinda ugly myself. Take a look at the Harley NightTrain five gallon tank. It's what I switched to and I think it looks pretty good. It's not a radical change to the look of the bike to my eye, but it does take a bit of work to get everything back together. http://www.bikepics.com/members/jazzcarter/00savage/ JC
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