Knee dents

**BLAZERONE22** · 12-13-2005, 04:36 PM

Anyone have any good tricks on popping out knee dents?

**ATCWRENCH** · 12-13-2005, 04:47 PM

pressureize the tank with air. the only thing I can think of with out destroying the paint.

try a small sunction cup of some kind, like a small plunger. get the tank wet and plunger it until it pops out. its what body shop guys do for dents like that.

**03 ORANGE SHEE** · 12-13-2005, 04:47 PM

yeah, fill it full of water and freeze, works every time!

**ATCWRENCH** · 12-13-2005, 04:49 PM

never thought about freezing water, good idea

**BLAZERONE22** · 12-13-2005, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by ATCWRENCH

pressureize the tank with air. the only thing I can think of with out destroying the paint.

try a small sunction cup of some kind, like a small plunger. get the tank wet and plunger it until it pops out. its what body shop guys do for dents like that.

I've tried the air thing back when I first got into three wheelers and it was not pretty... I might try the freezing thing. I'll do a test run with a old tank. I was thinking maybe that expandable foam. it desolves with fuel. I'm dong an experiement now.

**cragster** · 12-13-2005, 05:59 PM

the only thing i see wrong with wter is rust................

ohh and BTW Damn nIce BIKE!

**trikezilla** · 12-13-2005, 06:04 PM

I agrre..sweet bike! Where did you get those tank shrouds?? Id like some for my 83

**traxxasx** · 12-13-2005, 06:17 PM

i would think after * pop out those dents that those spots would be weak. so when * ride again if * push a lil in with ** knees again they will pop right back in. (just my opinion)

**Oldshell4481** · 12-13-2005, 07:38 PM

you are exactly right, we popped a few dents on my friends car and could push them back in with ease, basically you are screwed because big dents weaken the metal considerably.

**monster 84r** · 12-13-2005, 07:46 PM

you could heat the dents up and try the air pressure trick...

sorry to whore the thread blazer, but your 250r looks amazing. did the dg head help out performance alot? how did you get the rear end to sit that high? it looks great.

**BLAZERONE22** · 12-13-2005, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by monster 84r

you could heat the dents up and try the air pressure trick...

sorry to whore the thread blazer, but your 250r looks amazing. did the dg head help out performance alot? how did you get the rear end to sit that high? it looks great.

I don't think the DG head helped performance much. But it does look cool! other than that everything else in the mota is stock, carb, pipe, silencer ect. Its a fun machine, it rides exellent, in the rear thats a Westcoast swingarm with a Fox shock, and on the front is the 85-86R frontend with progressive springs.

The shroulds are Maier Superscoops, discontinued. every now and then you will see a pair pop up on ebay...

**Mobular** · 12-13-2005, 11:21 PM

It's not so much that the metal has weakened, but it has stretched. If all you were to do is try and pop it out, it'll just pop right back in when pushed on. You could go through all of the trouble to heat shrink the metal back into shape, but by far the easiest method is just leave the dents there and skim the whole thing with some good plastic filler and paint.

**Tri-ZNate** · 12-13-2005, 11:26 PM

Bondo is the cure all for dents.

**BigGreenMachine** · 12-13-2005, 11:42 PM

I'd leave them there. Even if you take them out they will get pushed back in, can't heat the tank for fear of ruining your paint and bondo adds weight and you would have to repaint...new used steel or a plastic tank? Plastic is Ugly! Love that I can push my T3 tank together with my knees (hear the air being squeezed out) and it just pops back out again.

**BLAZERONE22** · 12-14-2005, 01:52 AM

Yeah, I'll just leave them for now. Its not that bad. thanks for the help guys.

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