Building a bobber ol sparky replica

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Re: Building a bobber ol sparky replica

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Here is what you were asking about mfulls .. All the brackets are made from flat bar steel I made a leather cover for my battery to help from moving around an rubbing a hole in the battery an also helps keep it stationary an hides the ugly ... Lol
Oh an the tank is made from an old steel fire exstinguisher an it holds 2 an 3/4 gal of gas .. About 100 miles to a tank
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Re: Building a bobber ol sparky replica

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is your battery just sitting there? Held in place by the cables?

Love the look of that tank. Really smart to make it out of that. I don't quite have those skills, so I am going to have to figure something else out to delete the original fuel tank.

How did you plumb that up? Did you just run a fuel line to a petcock and fuel filter, then down to the fuel pump?
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I braised a brass barbed fitting into the bottom of it an ordered a tank neck from eBay an welded it in brass fitting is 90* hose to a inline shutoff valve an then straight to the fuel pump .. Battery is sitting in a basket that I built for it then took an made a leather cover for it ...
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cool stuff man....looks great.
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I appreciate it thanks for the compliments ...
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Good stuff
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Thanks Sunnbobb..
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Looking for a new look
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Side view
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I'm gonna get it finished up this weekend an ill pull it out an get some good snap shots of it ...
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I'm digging it !
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Do you guys think that it looks to much like an ole harley
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It does have a bit of a Harley look to it. But that is not a bad thing. If you like it....its right
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Looks like the new F6 .....

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