B31 tank from India - thread details please

[gallowdu]

Hi,

Anyone who has purchased and fitted such a tank, can you help me with the thread sizes for the tank badges, knee pads and mounting bolt threads please?

I'm told the mounting holes are M6, can anyone confirm this? I was going to order new badges from Drags (29-7910) and the screws (65-8317) but wanted to know if that is the correct thread for the Indian tanks. I have tried contacting the e-Bay seller but no response yet.

TIA

[Derek996]

It shouldn't be difficult to check if the support mounting and tank rubber threads are M6 but the threads for the badges should smaller, if metric I'd guess M4 or M3.5.

[Rog1]

It shouldn't be difficult to check if the support mounting and tank rubber threads are M6 but the threads for the badges should smaller, if metric I'd guess M4 or M3.5.

I always thought that M3.5 was just for fixing mains light switches etc to back boxes. Was I wrong?

[V500]

Can't think of any other uses, but there must be some.

[gallowdu]

Just to close out the thread, I can confirm the mounting holes on my tank are M8, the knee pad holes are M6 and the new badges from Drags will go on with 6BA screws after I have tapped out the holes. The petcock supplied does not fit the original copper fuel pipe so I'm going with 13mm ID rubber fuel hose for now.

Thanks