Until I find a new rust free fuel tank, this solution will do... but will get a larger tank.

Does anyone have an idea to which model it could belong to?...

So off out to Honister Pass to road test them. Perfect...

Once subframe is welded up rear fuel tank can start to be made....

I recently changed the oil, belts, shorai battery and plugs. airfilter looked fine...

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But I don't have a lot to budget...

Borrowdale, Keswick, Whinlatter Pass, Cockermouth then home. Busy in the Lakes today.с...

I'm getting ready to paint the tank and fenders. To ramp up to this there is all the standard sheet metal prep work, but before that, I wanted to make sure the tank was in good enough shape to use....

Now it is just rust to deal with. There are a lot of ways to remove rust from steel. One way is acids. Strong ones like muriatic (hydrochloric), or weaker ones like phosphoric, acetic (vinegar), ci...

The only other oriface in the tank is for the fuel petcock. To eliminate as many external sources of leaks as possible, I decided not to use the petcock, but use a simple hose barb adaptor instead....

The leak was where the rear mounting tab was welded to the tank. It looked like an incompete weld, or a weld may have pulled loose or cracked. This would likely be a high stress area, and it's possi...

After I posted the above, I got a couple of messages that I had overlooked one potential source of leaks. The way I plugged the filler neck with an expanding stopper put the filler neck joint outside...

Keswick, Whinlatter Pass, Cockermouth then home. Brakes now bedded in ...