Heritage gas tank retrofit

 

Cards on the table.  Drink up, I need some advice.

I have a '98 Heritage (85,000 mi) that incurred some significant hail
damage in Sturgis.  Of course, the insurance situation left me a  bit
lacking as far as being able to resore he original color. I decided to
make it all black, as a bike should be.  I figured this would be a
good time to put larger tanks on, as the stock Heritage tanks are just
too damn small.  I bought a set of HD factory fatbob 5 gal tanks on
Ebay, purportedly from a softail.  They don't look as good inside as
mine, but that's another story.

I've been wrenching my bike since new but I don't know a thing about
changing tanks.  The large tank (right side) has a curved nipple on
the bottom front, which matches my old one.  It also has another
straight nipple right next to it, that I believe is simply a different
location for the vent tube.  I'm not concerned about that.  On the
left tank, however, the outlet for the fuel valve is about 6" further
forward than the one on my original tank.  Should I be concerned about
this?  I don't want to wind up with a bunch of un-usable gas or a
reserve funtion that is useless.  Anyone run into this before?  Thanks
for any advice.
rnr

 

rnr wrote:

Have you tried holding that new tank in position on the mounts and looking
to see if the bung is at the lowest point ? If it's not , a good welder can
fix that for ya - for a fee , of course .
  Thanks fer the Dickel .
--
Snag
A bad welder can
blow up your tank
and kill himself ...

 

wrote:


I tried to do that but couldn't really determine that.  I guess I
should remove the existing tank and temporalily install the large on
to get a good look.  Better to figure it now than after all of the
paint and body work is done.  Thanks and have another Dickel.

 

rnruss52@yahoo.com wrote:

Thanks , and don't forget to drain the tanks before you remove the crossover
tube .

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