Thursday, February 11, 2010

Working the tank from hell...

So ive been putting this off for a while but ive gotta get this bike on the road so today i had a go at patching up my fuel tank. As u may know from earlier posts i got my tank sandblasted and found a hell of alot of damage under the old paint and bog.
So i started off sanding the little bit of surface rust off that had built up and gave the deepest dents and old badge mounts a good fill with some fibre glass bog.
Then i gave the smaller dents some normal bog.























Gave it all a sand and then went over with more bog...














I repeated this step a few times marking the dints with a pencil, filling with bog and sanding over and over and over...















Eventually after alot of sand paper it all started to even out...























Once i was reasonably happy i did one final sand and then sprayed the tank with some primer to show up and imperfections. And gave the problem areas yet another sand. Thats all i had in me for 1 day, it took about 8 hours to get all that done... All the big dints and craters are filled and theres just a few imperfections around the edge of some of the dints, so tomorrow im going to get some primer/filler and paint - sand - paint - sand - repeat untill it all looks good. Ive saved myslelf some cash which is good and i guess now when i look down at my tank when im riding i'll appreciate it a little more.







1 comment: