That's right ....... Anyone removing their fuel tank needs to do this. It also gave me clearance at the rear of the BRAND NEW PRISTINE condition tank I installed couple of years ago that rubbed the paint off in a few places from expansion .
I am still not smart enough to post pics , but I ground down to the top of the lettering on the pucks .
Thank you Gentlemen.
Some chunks were also retained within the spring and remnants were also still in the "installed" location.
In the meantime, I hope the wife isn't planning on an elaborate dinner anytime soon....
I cut an arc 10mm thick off the pucks and about 1/3 around . Drilled and pinned them so they wouldn't spin and installed the tank . P.S. the leak was at the retaining nut . Installed another sensor (used) from a 2000 tank & had to swap connector because it was DIFFERENT .
BTW , the tank fell onto the bike !
All the Way, Sir! Airborne!
A master parachutist ... but vintage 1976, i.e., in the days we leaped from biplanes.
Inexplicably to me, too, that sweatshirt has shrunk in astonishing ways since I ran down Ardennes in it.