TANKS A LOT!The tank that came with this bike had some weird, hippy sh!t paint job that someone had done over the years. The tank itself looked OK, but was festooned with muck on the underside, where it had been leaking for who know how many years. So, over Xmas, I cleaned and de-greased it and discovered that it was actually in pretty good shape. It did, however, leak and so the first job was to attempt to seal it. I did some investigation and found the KBS system was getting good results, so I bought a kit. I followed the 3 stage set of instructions and after waiting for the appropriate period of time, I re-filled the tank and shook it around and....... no leaks!
Happy with this result, I started to sand the tank and remove the old paint.
Then I filled and sanded the major holes and cracks and spray puttied it.
Then it was ready for priming.
And then ready for top coating.
In the mean time, I had been working on replicating the tank graphics and printed out a set of stickers fro the tank, along with the round logos.
And when they were done, I stuck them onto the tank and gave the tank to Darren, who passed it onto a mate of his and he blew some coats of clear across the whole unit. The clear helped to conseal all the attrocities I had committed and gave the tank a brilliant, glossy finish and sealed the stickers at the same time.
Now I just have to man up and put some fuel in it (and hope like hell it doesn't decide to start leaking).
