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Re: [St] Getting the gas tank back on



I too have just come across this problem.

I had my front forks rebuilt (by Racetech), renewed my throttle cable (twice), and upgraded the front brakes by adding a new MC and a brake line directly to the left caliper.

Still not able to route the Throttle cable without a little pinch when turning full lock to the left but I can live with that.

Fuel tank is the major problem though.
After the first throttle cable the fuel tank went on so easy I wondered what all the fuss was about. Alas I snapped the cable at the carb end and had to renew it. Now I can't get the tank on. Spent 4 hours last night on this bugger.


Any suggestions are more than welcome :)

Mark


----- Original Message ----- From: "chris warren" <cdub35@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:04
Subject: Re: [St] Getting the gas tank back on




Yeah, I was afraid of cross-threading and the bolt-head was getting wallowed out so my hex wrench wasn't fitting in too well and so I had double trouble because of that. As for plastic fuel fittings, it was because of them that this whole deal started. Both male and female are now replaced with metal ones. > Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:26:50 -0800> From: blubyu352@xxxxxxxxx> To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [St] Getting the gas tank back on> > Chris,> I can say that I had quite a wrestling match to line up the tank on my 2001. Took many different tries and found the toughest hole to line up was the skinny long bolt at the front. I may have stripped mine getting it back in (hope not).> Good luck with yours, be careful of the plastic fuel line fittings.> > > ____________________________________________________________________________________> Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs> _______________________________________________> Triumph Spr
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