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TheClaw
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Post subject: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:34 pm |
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Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:00 am Posts: 58 Location: Chicagoland
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I'm having my tank clear coated and I'm trying to get the fuel cap ring off. Is there a trick to getting at the nuts underneath? Special tool?
Thanks, Jeff
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 4:59 pm |
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Hi Jeff, made this dopey tool many years ago. Just took a 1/4 inch rachet extension heated it and bent it. Not pretty but it works. Lou
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TheClaw
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 5:10 pm |
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Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:00 am Posts: 58 Location: Chicagoland
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That's a good idea. I was thinking about bending an open end wrench but then the nut would be falling into the tank all the time. I like this idea better.
Thanks Lou
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huit
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 6:19 pm |
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Joined: Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:38 pm Posts: 800
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I made an aluminum ring that is threaded, no more special tools needed!
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618F1
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2015 8:01 pm |
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I became a heart surgeon just so I could do this. Was I wrong? MikeV
Jeff. After you take it off you may wish you hadn't. Have you thought about just taping around it because you trying to preserve the original paint?
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TheClaw
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:32 am |
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Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:00 am Posts: 58 Location: Chicagoland
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618F1 wrote: I became a heart surgeon just so I could do this. Was I wrong? MikeV
Jeff. After you take it off you may wish you hadn't. Have you thought about just taping around it because you trying to preserve the original paint? You know, you were right. There's a paper gasket, some RTV, and the mount is not straight. It was quite the job. Then I had to clean it up. Used a dremel tool with a wire wheel to get the RTV off (careful not to go thru the paint). The gasket that was in the spares that came with the bike did not fit, in a big way. So I have to make a new gasket (no biggie) and put some fresh RTV down there. Oh, there's a hairline crack by the fuel tap on one side. Looks like instead of welding it properly they smeared some epoxy on there. I'll just have to smear some fresh JB Weld on there or find some Aluma weld sticks.
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Carlo
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 12:44 pm |
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ducttf1
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 1:49 pm |
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Hi Carlo, yes this is a much easier way and I use it as well. I made that tool because if I remember correctly I was installing the cap with a Paso gasket. Which is pretty nice, it is a fuel proof rubber but is goes into the tank a bit so it is hard to start the nuts on the screws. A pre-ring cut as Carlo and Paul suggest is the way to go. Lou
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TheClaw
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:51 pm |
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Joined: Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:00 am Posts: 58 Location: Chicagoland
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Carlo
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Post subject: Re: Removing the fuel cap ring Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:03 pm |
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Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:44 am Posts: 1786 Images: 7
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design disgusting surely you have already figured out, I wanted to say that. Even with a small gap, it is possible to insert it in one piece. Ciao Dall'Italia...Grazie a tutti!
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