Stop in for a cup of coffee

If you are going to half *** it, might as well go all the way! Drop the tank....do it right....
Its not the half-assing thats the issue. The PO has the exhaust running UNDER the tank. its all welded and then the hangers(homemade pieces of flat steel) are welded from the pipes to the frame, so I'd have to cut it all out and I really am trying to avoid doing that at the moment.