| Author | Message | ||
     Terpfords |
My tank keeps bubbling after repeated attempts to fix so I may buy another used tank and start over. Mine is a 5 gallon, is that what everyone calls a magna ? And is there some additional prep work I can perform to prevent it from bubbling ? | ||
| S1owner |
There is extensive instruction on painting these tanks and the biggest key is cure time like alot of it. Yes manta tank is the big tank | ||
| Littlebuggles |
There are two Manta tanks, they were bored out for slightly more capacity on the T models according to a Buell guy who seemed to know his business from the dealership, back in the day. I ended up putting a 98S3T tank on my M2 trying to increase capacity when I did paint on my old bike in 2006. One thing I did as recommended by the painter was let the plastics sit outside for a week in the sun, then in my garage for another week or so until I couldn't smell ANY sort of paint solvent scent, to be sure it was fully cured and adhered to the tank prior to putting it back on the bike and putting fuel in it. It seemed to work. I sold the bike this Jan, 12 years later and never had a hint of bubbling. Interestingly enough, the vinyl tank emblems and race stripes I had made did eventually bubble and need replacing, showing they didn't let anything pass through. | ||
| S1owner |
I dont know about the manta sizing but could be. But yes anything put on the tank if it does not breathe will eventually bubble | ||
| Screamer |
There were two types of manta tanks - fuel injected and carbureted. All manta tanks had the same intended capacity. For a period (I can't remember what year it occurred) the supplier that provided the roto-molded tanks had issues which created some tanks with excessive wall thickness. In some cases it may have created a slightly reduced capacity - but there was no intentional capacity differences, and T models used the same tank as non-T models. | ||
| Upthemaiden |
Someday I'm making a fiberglass tank cover and painting that. Sounds like way less work than repainting over and over. Look around the forum, there's a picture of one someone made somewhere. | ||
| S1owner |
A fellow badwebber owns that cover   | ||
| Sbaugz |
brilliant! |
