SuzukiSavage.com - Decal Removal

hockmanjosh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 33 Park City, UT Gender:	Decal Removal 06/13/16 at 09:11:36 I want to remove the savage decals from the sides of the gas tank. I saw a guy on youtube cut around a decal, then heat gun and remove, there was paint and clear coat under his decal. I removed a small bit of mine, but it doesn't appear to have paint and clear coat under the decal. Any ideas?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Decal Removal Reply #1 - 06/13/16 at 09:16:53 No debate,, you've already started... soldier on, good luck.
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Re: Decal Removal
Reply #2 - 06/13/16 at 11:08:22

How I removed my chrome decals was to let the tank run low on gas and set the bike in the Texas sun for a couple of hours.

Then I used fishing line to saw through the gookum that holds the decals onto the tank.

I pulled the bike into my garage and after the tank cooled off I then cleaned the mess up with GoofOff.

I wouldn't put any kind of solvent on hot paint.

There is a posting on here IIRC that has pictures removing the decals.

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Re: Decal Removal
Reply #3 - 06/13/16 at 11:24:09

Kenny G wrote on 06/13/16 at 11:08:22:

How I removed my chrome decals was to......
Kenny G

The chrome "badges" are not decals.....they are stuck "on" the paint with foam tape.

The "decals" are under the clear coat paint layer - but over the base color coat. I really don't know how you could get the decals off and save the paint. It is not as easy as getting the "stuff" out of an Oreo!

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norm92de Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1180 El Paso TX Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #4 - 06/13/16 at 11:47:06 A local guy removed his Suzuki boulevard logos. They came off without a trace. His tank looks like it came that way
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Dave YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 18099 Camp Springs, Kentucky Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #5 - 06/13/16 at 12:08:47 This fellow has "DECALS"......not badges.
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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #6 - 06/13/16 at 17:54:21 Josh, What year is your bike? Kenny G
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hockmanjosh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 33 Park City, UT Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #7 - 06/13/16 at 18:23:48 2003. I'm going to try to vinyl wrap instead of remove the decals.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #8 - 06/13/16 at 19:21:57 Like this! Not this!
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hockmanjosh YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 33 Park City, UT Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #9 - 06/13/16 at 20:00:58 The top one. IMO the ugliest one they ever made for the savage.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #10 - 06/14/16 at 19:43:35 It's sort of Indian feather-like. You know...savages! BTW, I don't mean to be offensive to any native Americans. I'm part Cherokee.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Decal Removal Reply #11 - 06/15/16 at 01:49:03 Uh huhh,, Suuure you are... And what do you tell that small bunch of young toughs encircling you menacingly? Hey, aren't you Billy's cousin? Billy, he's a real good friend..
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #12 - 06/15/16 at 09:05:25 I've been tracing my family tree lately. I got all the way back to about 1580 before it became untraceable. Turns out my ancestors came from Armagh County, Ireland. My Great Grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee though.
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Kris01 Serious Thumper Offline Eat, sleep, RIDE! Posts: 3767 Tennessee Gender:	Re: Decal Removal Reply #13 - 06/16/16 at 19:07:30 I found this: http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1181828138 ...for anyone reading this thread that wants to remove the badges, not the stickers.
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