I took it a little slow today, time for thought and design ideas.
After chopping of the shelter supports and cleaning off the tabs I sat down to figure out just how to mount the gas tank.
The center support tube was rather large at the neck and tapered down to a smaller size.
In order to get a good solid support tube to put down the center I decided to cut the top and sides off this center tube.
When I did this I found that the original center tube was not welded to the neck but to an outer shell which is welded at the top and bottom to the inside neck.
My idea now is to weld the new tube along this bottom tube housing and then gusset in the top pretty much like the original. I will probably wind up putting more support metal in place of the original metal because I want the neck to look smoother and more finished than the original.
I have to make sure that the height of the tank leaves enough room for the air filter.
Now on the subject of air filters, I have gone overboard and purchased a single carburetor manifold to mount on the engine going into this bike.
It uses a single VW Solex 34 PICT Carburetor, which I am familiar with already, having build a few dune buggies in the past.
This I hope this will make tuning easier + I will only need one pull cable to operate the carburetor. Time will tell.
I hope this also gives me more room above and around the engine.
Now I have to figure out just how to mount the other end of the center bar.
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