I wanted to dish out the sides of the tank, so I cut out the shape I needed.
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.
After all the cleanup work was done I started to make the panels that would fill in the sides.
Panel by panel, the tank is filling in.
I was making one panel at at time, working from side to side to make sure the tank was coming out symmetrical.
All panels on both sides are tacked in at this point. I just need to weld them in fully.
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.
