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marke2571 Junior Member 2004 No Login Offline Free Spec Ops Cody!!!! Posts: 71 Georgia Gender:	Raise the Tank? 05/05/05 at 06:19:32 I saw a pic of someone's bike that had the gas tank raised up, made it even with the frame. Any ideas on how that was done? I saw the pic on Jon D.'s site if anybody is familiar with that. --Mark
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #1 - 05/05/05 at 09:06:47 Look at this picture" He used 2 silentblocks with 6mm thread to raise the tank and the seatfront, neat ? Greetz Kropatchek
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Nightrain Ex Member	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #2 - 05/05/05 at 11:38:36 That will be my next mod. What the Heck are silent blocks? ???
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Ed L. Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline "We All go a Little Crazy Sometimes" Norman Bates Posts: 2808 Sunny Florida Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #3 - 05/05/05 at 15:28:59 Won't the petco-ck get in the way of a raised tank? Ed L.
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Frost Full Member 2004 No Login Offline Watch out now.... Posts: 119 Boston Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #4 - 05/05/05 at 20:33:34 anyone find the picture of the tank mounted?
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Gitarzan Serious Thumper 2004 No Login Offline ! Posts: 827 Columbus, Oh, Earth, Solar Sys Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #5 - 05/05/05 at 20:57:35 You mean this one? It does look cool propped up there peanut style. I sent an email invitation to the suspected owner. He's over on Heise. FWIW Jon's Gallery of Cool Savages: http://www.jonline.org/savage/Photos/Cool_Savages/cool_savages.html
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #6 - 05/06/05 at 02:17:27 Nightrain wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05: That will be my next mod. What the Heck are silent blocks? ??? It's 2 large washers with rubber inbetween and 2 threaded studs on each washer. Picture: Greetz Kropatchek
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marke2571 Junior Member 2004 No Login Offline Free Spec Ops Cody!!!! Posts: 71 Georgia Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #7 - 05/06/05 at 05:34:45 Yep, Gitarzan knows the pic I wrote about. How did he do that?? I would like to do that my Savage. --Mark
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Kropatchek Serious Thumper Offline Why more than 1 cylinder? Posts: 1457 Alphen a/d Rijn Netherlands Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #8 - 05/07/05 at 03:54:48 Frost wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:05: anyone find the picture of the tank mounted? You mean this? Greetz Kropatchek
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Savage_Greg Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Don't go around your ass to reach your elbow... Posts: 7844 SW Washington State Gender:	Re: Raise the Tank? Reply #9 - 05/07/05 at 07:41:50 darn...nice paint job. And darn, the airbox is gone, there is a K&N pod filter, the horn is where I mounted mine, and he has a SuperTrapp exhaust. Get a look at that bar with the end lights, too. He's about as wide as a small car
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Re: Raise the Tank?
Reply #10 - 05/07/05 at 18:24:35

That matching painted frame really sets it out.

As far as the original question about this bike's tank:

I'd suspect that he placed a bracket in the tank and bolted in on. I also suspect that unless he filled the tank's frame cutaway with metal, it looked terrible from a frontal angle. Notice on the web site that he later replaced it with an Intuder tank.

Check this place out. If that's the look you want, I'd get a Mustang replica or Peanut.
http://www.custombike.org/paughco_gas_tanks.htm

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Re: Raise the Tank?
Reply #11 - 05/07/05 at 20:22:54

I sell peanut AND coffin tanks for $99.95 USD. Plus tax and shipping. They are 2 or 2.5 US gallons (approx). You'd have to minimally mod your frame's backbone to run ANY aftermarket chopper tank, 99.99% are made to fit ROUND backbones, the Savage unit is square. They take HD MANUAL fuel valves, not the vacuum junk. And mount with bolts THROUGH the frame, not silly little rubber blocks.

I haven't measured them yet, but they look like they'd fit okay. Speedometer would have to be deleted or relocated. If there is any interest, I don't mind pricing a tank/petc0ck package at lunch next week.

MMM, a real tank with a real petc0ck... I think I hear my bike begging for some attention. Wink

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