I need help. A few months ago I purchased a new gas tank for my '72 Elky. Just this past weekend I tried to install it. I found out that the filler neck is not bent to the correct angle to align to the gas filler door. Infact it is off so much that I cannot get the tank set up between the frame because the filler neck hits the inside sheet metal of the rear quarter, 4 or 5 inches below the filler door.

This is what I have. The filler neck tube is 17 inches overall length. The tube comes straight out of the top half of the tank for 7 inches then its bent upward about 15 degrees. I think that it should be about 40 to 45 degrees of bend.

Could someone who has a 68 to 72 Elky measure the angle of their filler tube so that I can take the tank to a muffler shop and bend this tube to the correct angle ??

Any help would be appreciated,

Thank you, David

FYI, Issue resolved. The Filler neck evidently got bent during shipping at the connection to the tank.