I finally finished the repair on my tank.

[Guest]

Back in February, I took the GS1100 to a friend's house out of town. I brain farted when tying it down for the ride home, and it fell over in the truck.

I thought the dent was too deep to just fill it with bondo, and I don't have welding equipment, and I wasn't going to drill a hole in it and pull it out, so I decided to buy the paintless dent repair kit and then the tools to reach in the tank and "massage" it out. The tools wouldn't reach the area, so they were useless. The paintless kit only gave me one good pull, and that was securing it with epoxy instead of the hot glue they give.

Anyway, it really didn't take as much bondo as I thought it would. One good application, and then a couple of light ones.











I sprayed it with water to check for low or high spots.





Duplicolor "Pure White" base coat.



Krylon "True Blue" sprayed. I left the outlines of the blue and black stripe so I had a good guide to follow. I found out later that I didn't follow them exactly.

[Guest]

After the blue was sprayed, I did the striping. I bought some 3M 1/4" black tape for that.





Next was the clear coat. 2K out of a couple of cans.





After it sat for about a week, I buffed it out. Meguiar's liquid rubbing compound, then Meguiar's polishing compound.







Back on the bike. I wasn't paying attention the position of the fuel sending unit when I took it out, so it's wrong, of course.





I bought some new emblems as well. While they look good and fit great, I decided I liked the way these look with the blue and chrome.

[Guest]

While I was at it, I took off the fairing (I'll get to that a little later) and one side cover had a decent size crack in it. I used DAP RAPID FUSE on that. It held up through all the body work and buffing and man handling I did to it. I'll see how it holds up on the road.

[rphillips]

Hate you had the trouble, but looks like you've got it under control, you did great. Congrats. Rekon there will be those who aren't fond of the blue frame & wheels?, not that it matters.

[Guest]

^^^That's how I bought it. I hate the fact that the original paint job that MOTORCYCLIST magazine did will eventually be painted over. Fairing has cracks and there are chips and worn spots on the front fender and tail section.

[Gorminrider]

Nice work,Deuce!

(....always like a tip-I've never heard of Dap "Rapid-fuse", so I'll have to look that up!)

[steve murdoch]

Nice work on the repair and the paint.
Electrics and paint are my two personal bugaboos. Always like seeing how-to threads on those subjects.

[Guest]

Thanks! I bought the Rapid Fuse at a grocery store, of all places. \

Electrical system isn't fun for me either. My mind can't grasp it for some reason.

[oldGSfan]

Very nice work, painting takes patience and skill, looks like you have both in spades!

[nvr2old]

Turned out really nice. You should be quite pleased.

[Buffalo Bill]

Yeah, very patient work, excellent result!

[dorkburger]

Looks great.
As far as eventually having to paint over Motorcyclist's work, it beats the alternative of squirrelling it away in a garage. These things belong on the streets.

[Guest]

Thanks again, everybody. The fairing will require fiberglass work. I've only messed around with it before. Might take watching a few videos.