derek533
Junior Member
First off, a little backstory. Warning, wall of text incoming and cliffs at the bottom for the lazy.
So I picked up the Fz6 a week ago (used) and rode it home. My previous bike was a Suzuki Marauder 800 cruiser and the weight of that bike while similar to the Fz6, is much lower to the ground and this is important. Now, I was messing around with the center stand and was between the bike and the wall. Having never used a center stand before (except on my CB175 which weighs next to nothing), I was trying to see how easy it would be to set it. So I get on the bike to rock it off and don't have a hold of the front brake (stupid me). In a panic as it started rolling towards stuff in front of it in my garage, I grabbed handfuls of hard front brake. That stopped me going forward, but because my tire was at a slight angle, I lost my balance and immediately threw my right leg over the seat so that I was standing between the bike and the wall.
The bike was going over whether I liked it or not so here I am wedging against the wall and my lawnmower which is between my left side and the wall I'm using as leverage also. I managed to keep the bike from falling (yeah!) but because I was wedged so bad and the bike was darn near sideways, my knee or waist (not sure which) was resting against the gas tank and all that weight was being pushed back against it. Suffice to say, I managed to put a very, very large dent in the tank on the left side. I didn't discover the dent because where I park the bike I don't ever see the left side unless I walk over to that side. I put the bike away on Friday of last week and didn't notice the large dent until Sunday when I went out for a ride. I immediately got extremely miffed at the guy I bought it from (keep in mind, we're talking three days since acquiring it) and it didn't dawn on me until I was sitting there and thinking about how he could have pulled one over on me when I realized this happened because of me and not him! I immediately asked for God's forgiveness for wishing serious harm upon that nice man who actually did take very good care of this bike.
But I digress.
Once home, I took a suction cup off my car's gps mount and managed to pop a very large portion of the dent right out. However, in doing this, it created two fairly large dents because of the way the metal was bent. That's when I started thinking paintless dent repair, body shop, and do it yourself type solutions. I ended up buying a dent repair kit off of Amazon. This [ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006FKFMC/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]one[/ame] to be exact due to the most favorable reviews. I've now worked on the dents with this kit and I'm quite pleased with the results. It's not perfect, but it is 100x better than it was.
Cliffs:
1 Put large dent in gas tank due to my own stupidity
2 Got some of it out with suction cup from GPS mount
3 That left two large dents due to the way the metal was bent
4 Ordered kit
5 Fixed dents for the most part
6. Impressive results and happy biker!
Ok, now on to the tutorial. I'll start in a new post.
So I picked up the Fz6 a week ago (used) and rode it home. My previous bike was a Suzuki Marauder 800 cruiser and the weight of that bike while similar to the Fz6, is much lower to the ground and this is important. Now, I was messing around with the center stand and was between the bike and the wall. Having never used a center stand before (except on my CB175 which weighs next to nothing), I was trying to see how easy it would be to set it. So I get on the bike to rock it off and don't have a hold of the front brake (stupid me). In a panic as it started rolling towards stuff in front of it in my garage, I grabbed handfuls of hard front brake. That stopped me going forward, but because my tire was at a slight angle, I lost my balance and immediately threw my right leg over the seat so that I was standing between the bike and the wall.
The bike was going over whether I liked it or not so here I am wedging against the wall and my lawnmower which is between my left side and the wall I'm using as leverage also. I managed to keep the bike from falling (yeah!) but because I was wedged so bad and the bike was darn near sideways, my knee or waist (not sure which) was resting against the gas tank and all that weight was being pushed back against it. Suffice to say, I managed to put a very, very large dent in the tank on the left side. I didn't discover the dent because where I park the bike I don't ever see the left side unless I walk over to that side. I put the bike away on Friday of last week and didn't notice the large dent until Sunday when I went out for a ride. I immediately got extremely miffed at the guy I bought it from (keep in mind, we're talking three days since acquiring it) and it didn't dawn on me until I was sitting there and thinking about how he could have pulled one over on me when I realized this happened because of me and not him! I immediately asked for God's forgiveness for wishing serious harm upon that nice man who actually did take very good care of this bike.
But I digress.Once home, I took a suction cup off my car's gps mount and managed to pop a very large portion of the dent right out. However, in doing this, it created two fairly large dents because of the way the metal was bent. That's when I started thinking paintless dent repair, body shop, and do it yourself type solutions. I ended up buying a dent repair kit off of Amazon. This [ame="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006FKFMC/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1"]one[/ame] to be exact due to the most favorable reviews. I've now worked on the dents with this kit and I'm quite pleased with the results. It's not perfect, but it is 100x better than it was.
Cliffs:
1 Put large dent in gas tank due to my own stupidity
2 Got some of it out with suction cup from GPS mount
3 That left two large dents due to the way the metal was bent
4 Ordered kit
5 Fixed dents for the most part
6. Impressive results and happy biker!
Ok, now on to the tutorial. I'll start in a new post.
