Thanks in advance to anyone with repair experience that is willing to give me a couple suggestions.
So heres the short story:
Because I have limited space in my garage, I had my bike (I thought securly) proped up against the garage wall when doing some work on it. During the process, I noticed that the gas tank was holding the weight of the bike up against a 2X4 stud, so I leaned the bike up to see what sort of damage this idiotic miskate just caused, and there it was....an inch long V-shaped dent in the tank.
I had a couple ideas for myself, but I dont think its gonna work;
First idea: I was gonna try and just fill in the dent with a filler like bondo then repaint the tank, but then relized that probably isn't going to work because it doesnt have anything to grip to on the suface. (anyone have any thoughts on that?)
Second idea: Drill some holes in the tank then try to pull the dent out, fill the holes, bondo, then repaint. (Did I mention I just got done spending about 4 hours repainting this tank about a month ago..lol)
Third idea: Go buy one of those suction cup dent puller things. (The reason I dont think this will work is because the dent is right on the curvature of the tank)
Or..just pay the $400+ and buy a new tank??
So what do yall think?
So heres the short story:
Because I have limited space in my garage, I had my bike (I thought securly) proped up against the garage wall when doing some work on it. During the process, I noticed that the gas tank was holding the weight of the bike up against a 2X4 stud, so I leaned the bike up to see what sort of damage this idiotic miskate just caused, and there it was....an inch long V-shaped dent in the tank.
I had a couple ideas for myself, but I dont think its gonna work;
First idea: I was gonna try and just fill in the dent with a filler like bondo then repaint the tank, but then relized that probably isn't going to work because it doesnt have anything to grip to on the suface. (anyone have any thoughts on that?)
Second idea: Drill some holes in the tank then try to pull the dent out, fill the holes, bondo, then repaint. (Did I mention I just got done spending about 4 hours repainting this tank about a month ago..lol)
Third idea: Go buy one of those suction cup dent puller things. (The reason I dont think this will work is because the dent is right on the curvature of the tank)
Or..just pay the $400+ and buy a new tank??
So what do yall think?
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