Anyone Got An Ims Fuel Tank?

[icemanscold]

I bought an ims new fuel tank on ebay, but it came with no brackets for the top, an it hits my handle bars. Is there supposed to be a spacer in the orginal kit? I made one out of aluminum, but now my brake line seems to be too short. I can make a new brake line, but am I supposed to? It appears that I have to remove a bit of plastic from the orginal setup, like cutting the fenders that go around the tank. Has anyone had to do this? Is this the sacrifice that goes with running this kind of tank? Any info would be helpful.

[Yamahammer]

Hey pm evil or hopefully he will see this at the top he has the ims tank..

On the top the brackets ae just plate steel 1/2 wide by 1/2 or so guestimation... they should not be hard to make.

[Meat]

yea dude, you gotta cut your front plastics, the section you cut is the long narrow section on the front plastics, right about where your knees are when sitting on the kwad.

[evil]

check this out, the stem will hit if you use big bar adapters. i did one on a stock stem but had to use the regular bars. it came close but did not hit. as far as brackets, i had to make my own, real easy with a grinder, but do use locktite on the bolts that hold the brackets to the quad, one of mine fell off. your gonna have to hack the crap out of your plastic to get it to fit and another caution is the tank may not fit straight and level as mine didnt. to fix it i had to fill it up with boiling water and use whatever i had to reshape the damn thing. it was a pain in the ass but well worth it in the end. i can send you a pic of it all mounted up if you like. as far as the brake lines and stuff go when i did my personal bike i changed the lines, stem and just about everything else but when i did my friends with the stock stem i didnt run into any of these problems. what bars are you running ? also did it come with the rubber grommits and steel sleeves to bolt it under your seat ? get back to me man ive dealt with every situation on these tanks and still love them. later

[richwuest]

I have one on mine and one on my wife's quad. Both fit fine under the bars, but we both have stock stems and bar clamps. I do have and aftermarket bar though, and it still worked. As for the plastic, get the tank in place, and put the plastic up against it to mark it to see where you neeed to cut it at. The cut does not have to be perfect, because it will be partially hidden under the tank. The top brakets, as mentioned are just straight pieces with a whole on each end for a single screw to come through, easy to fabricate.

 

 

I do love my tanks, with a ported bike, they are a must in my opinion. The stock tanks just don't last long enough on a ride.

 

One side note, the tank I have is rated as I believe a 5.3 gallon model, but when bone dry, mine swallows a full 6 gallon gas can, so it is even bigger than rated.

[evil]

a rich, you sure its not a 5.6 gal ?

[boonman]

Hopefully these may help you out a little. And yes, my tank is rated at 5.6 Evil, and it holds like 6.

 

In this last pic, you can see my handlebar mods, and the others show the stem pretty decent. I made my own stem, the whole thing, and I also made an aluminum plate, which can be seen in this last pic, that moves the bars forward almost 2". I had to heat up the tank, right near the top with a heat gun, and mold it so that the stem wouldn't contact it. My stem is also about 2" longer than stock. So, if you are running a stock stem, and 7/8" bars with no "funny business" you should be alright...