Cole Fosters Bobber Gas Tank

This happens to be another easy way to Build a  Bobber on a Budget. Cole's gas tank is readily available by Custom  Chrome for Softails, TC-88 and Sportsters, it also can be modified  to fit many bikes. At a price less than $300.00 with all hardware included and a flush mount gas cap, it's a pretty inexpensive way to make your bike look cool.

Here I will explain how to mount the gas tank,

We start by taking our old gas tank off and anything else we might need to take off the bike to make it a simpler job, As you can see on the photos above, the backbone has several different tabs for the original gas tank mounting, all these have to come off, On the second photo of this group you will see the rearmost gas tank mount, which will be our anchor point for Cole's gas tank.

   The Bottom front mount will be unbolted since the gas tank comes with a new one for us to use.

  Here's the hardware that come with the gas tank, the front mount replacement and our grinder ready to do the deed.

The backbone mounting tabs cut off, after this we will grind them smooth, I also took off the seat tab (since we are using a sprung seat) and the dash, tank panel cover..

Here's the backbone after the cut and grinding it smooth, remember that the last hole will be drilled at a 45 degree angle in order to accept the rear gas tank anchor point.

The Front mount and dash bracket are gone, I cut them with a reciprocating saw, then smoothed them out with the grinder. In this case we are going to repaint the whole frame, but If that was not the case some good quality spray paint will work wonders.

This is a shot of all the hardware, the tank comes with some rubber pads so it wont touch the frame, some spacers for the lower front mount and assorted bolts and washers

This is the rear anchor point that will slide into the old existing rear mount, drilled at 45 degree angle with a 7/16 bit.

A couple shots of the lower front mount, it will be bolted to the frame with the rectangular spacers provided, I placed the gas tank and slid it as forward as it could go, the choosing the right spacers, after doing so I simply took it off the gas tank and bolted it into place, I noticed that some of the rectangular spacer are a bit longer than the space provided, I simply cut the excess so it would lay flat against the frame.

Here's a shot of the tank in place, it's a pretty simple straightforward installation , remember to pressure test the gas tank before sending it off to paint.