I have looked back through the forum but the last entries seem to be a few years back and I was hoping for an up to date view? My 40+ yr old fastback fibre glass tank has had it, the ethanol proof coating only lasted 12 years and the people I have approached have all shied away from re lining it due to the age and potential further damage caused by this bloody ethanol. Therefore the advice is to get a metal tank. I know that it is possible to get repro tanks from India, and I know that 5-6 yrs ago there were horror stories about quality, fillers on wrong sides, substandard steel etc etc.
But what I would like to know has anyone you know bought a Norton tank from India in the past 18 months and what do you / they think of it? And if it was good who was the seller? Can you help??
I've been thinking about…
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RGM Tanks?
https://www.accessnorton.com/NortonCommando/new-resin-fastback-fuel-tanks-from-rgm.30279
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Ok the RGM p/n is 062025 or…
Ok the RGM p/n is 062025 or 060496 [with badge recess] the link I supplied you was from www.accessnorton.com in their Commando forum its now about 3 pages back.
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I've been thinking about using the old fibreglass tank as a cover (cut out the base) over a metal tank on a production racer. As they did on the JPN. The JPN filler was a bit naff with a flip top hiding a screw-on cap inside. Could do something like they do on jap bikes and have a lockable flush cap with connector into the real tank but keeping the original 'monza' cap would be a challenge.
The advantage is it's original with the metal flakes in the gelcoat and doesn't require much metalworking talent to fabricate a durable aluminium "inner-tank".
Has anyone done this?