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- I wanted to dish out the sides of the tank, so I cut out the shape I needed.
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- This gave me great access to the inside of the tank. This was the best time to clean out the rust and hammer and dolly the dents.
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- After all the cleanup work was done I started to make the panels that would fill in the sides.
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- Panel by panel, the tank is filling in.
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- I was making one panel at at time, working from side to side to make sure the tank was coming out symmetrical.
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- All panels on both sides are tacked in at this point. I just need to weld them in fully.
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- All burned in!!! Just a little clean up, pressure test, and time to start getting ready for paint.
So I started out with the original gas tank, and exploded it into a steel beach ball (hopefully the first and last time I do that). I did want to use the tank however. Lucky my local motorcycle salvage yard, Southwest Motorcycles, had what I needed!
I then started out with another stock KZ750 tank. From there I had a little work to do. The new used tank had some dents as well as some rust to address.
