Swapping a fuel tank

[buoy]

Hi - I have a '96 honda hornet 250 that was dropped in Japan, with a horrible looking dent in one side. I have brought a replacement tank and attempted to swap it myself but have been foiled so far by a large nut connecting tank to fuel line I think. Anyone done a swap on one of these bikes before and has any words of advice? Assuming I get past the aforementioned nut is it all pretty easy from there? Is there anyone available this easter weekend on the North Shore to perhaps show me how the tank swap is done? I'd like to learn in case I ever drop this bike and need to replace the tank again : )

Thanks - from a noob. Oh yeah not a total charity case if someone was available to help out then perhaps a fee can be arranged.

[FROSTY]

Bring the darn thing over here.
-should be -seat off --undoo 2 bolts rear of tank-lift--turn off gas-pull all the fuel ines off. Then remove,do reverse for new tank.
Only real variables are fuel sender unit for fuel tandk and possibly a remote fuel tap

[xwhatsit]

If you still can't work it out, GiJoe1313 has had the tank off his Hornet 250 more times than he's done oil changes, so I'm sure he can clarify things if Frosty's instructions don't get it done.

[buoy]

guys thanks for the quick replies - I'll go try again now and let you know how I go. Maybe the bit I thought I had to disconnect I can leave on somehow and disconnect it elsewhere. So green at this, am paranoid my near full tank of gas will end up all over me, the bike, the carpoort etc. I really should have half emptied the tank I think.

[buoy]

ok - so the tank has one connection to fuel tap via large nut, I've not tried removing. The fuel tap has 2 lines going out from it and it looks easiest to disconnect these lines from just beneath the tap rather than from where I traced these too. So the 1st line (the thicker of the two) is in clear view and I've disconnected the little metal fastener around the top of the rubber hose and tried wiggling the hose off about an inch of metal pipe it adheres to from the fuel tap. The wiggling moves it in both directions a little bit but have made no progress really in actually moving it down. The second line I have virtually no visibility of and am reluctant to even make a start on it. Can someone confirm this is even the best way to go about this. For the 2nd line, the thin one that's out of sight behind the fuel tap, I could maybe disconnect it from where it connects into the engine case... will see if GiJoe1313 can help maybe.

[Steam]

Just pull the damn things off. One is the fuel line, one is the vacuum line, it doesn't matter what end you pull them off, you're not going to break anything. They're just tubes.

[georgie]

http://www.biker.ie/forum/showthread.php?t=32347

May be helpful.....

[buoy]

thanks everyone for the offers to help and suggestions - I've also found this Japanese site with a good lot of maintenance photos:

http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=ja%7Cen&u=http://www.ne.jp/asahi/koby/hobby/MotorCycle/Maintenance/Exterior/Index.html

...I start again on the tank swap tomorrow : )

[buoy]

so after riding the bike for a week I finally got the tank off on sunday, still managed to drain about 10litres out of the tank and think I've lost the clippy thing for the main fuel line (but had been riding it all week unclipped). I thought once the tank was off I could just turn the fuel tap on to drain off the tank but no it seems I had to unscrew the fuel tap entirely, only having one of them I needed to do this anyway for use on the new tank. Only other thing of note was finding a bit of glad wrap or clear plastic bag crap in the tank - so good to get this out I guess. Thanks again to everyone offering help/advice for me on this.