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Post by alleyoop on Nov 12, 2013 14:15:37 GMT -6
Well I have seen worse to tell you the truth, but I fill mine up until it will not take anymore and mine does not come out of the center shaft. Also the seals are made out of thin aluminum and they are concave sort of like a shallow bowl to fit the curvature of the housing.
But wipe it off and see if it still keeps coming out from there. If it stops then you know it was to much. Alleyoop
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Post by steve on Nov 12, 2013 16:12:47 GMT -6
It is a sissy bar. The gas tank is a 2.2 gal "peanut tank" for a early Sportster. I used al plate from home depot to fab the front mount and threadsall for the rear. I pulled the electric pod and put the battery and all the electrics in a small marine battery box where the old gas tank was. I installed a push button 15A circuit breaker in the battery box and ran a charger jack out also. I do not have to pull the floor plate except for messing with the CDI. The only thing not in the new box is the VR because it gets quite warm and needs the frame to help as a heatsink. I now have a gravity fed fuel system with 1/4 inch lines running via a pitcock and hi flow fuel filter straight to Scrappy Dawgs 30mm carb. No fuel pump. No vacuum lines. It took a very long time to re wire the bike, but there are no longer any connectors. It's all hardwired. I also removed the headlight and replaced it with a chrome motorcycle headlight. The front fender is a replacement fender for a mini bike. I would like to send a larger photo, but this forum does not allow large photo files, and I do not use cloud storage. I'll try to take more detailed photos with lower resolution when this cold front passes through.
I guess the important point of all of this is that it was done in a parking lot with only a dremmel tool, a cordless drill, a soldering iron, basic hand tools.
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