would it be an easy conversion? has anyone done it and how does it look? thinking about selling my softail and getting a 48 but cant stand the small tank. i hate gas stations.

 

It is a direct bolt on. I made the swap the from a Iron tank(same as Nightster) to a Fourty-Eight tank.
Only thing different is the vent tube is further forward on the Fourty-Eight tank so you will have to shorten that hose. Other than that it is direct bolt on.
The Nightster tank will look tall on the Fourty-Eight, saw one over on the XLForum and looks kind of different with those low bars.
Here is mine

 

that tank looks mean on that iron cuda!

 

any chance you could find it, i tried but it told me i saw my limit of forum posts.

 

forum member daniel hunter did it, looks great... both fuel tanks look good so could be hard to decide...here's some pics of his ride...

 

thanks, that will more than likely be the way i end up going except kick some different bars, maybe some 10-12 narrow apes. Think that would look killer.

 

found this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhj-s...eature=related

 

man I LOVE youtube and forums. Planning to get a 48 but want to take some trips with it so the 2.x gallon tank isn't going to work for me. Easy fix: get the nightster 3.3 tank (I want the 48 because of the wheels, forks, foot control placement, etc and to change all that on a nightster is $$$). So I call a Harley dealer and ask how much to swap tanks... crazy expensive. that is after first telling me it might not be possible without a bunch of other modifications which would cost me even more.

Yeah... no.

So I use google to look up switching tanks on a 48 which brings me to this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5V9l...eature=related

now that's what I'm talking about! That's something I can definitely do at home. Why the @#$% would they tell me it would take so long, cost so much $, and need other modifications? Anyway, hope this vid helps others out there looking to swap tanks. I actually think I'm going to go with a tank with a high cap that another boardie recommended:
http://vision-design-studios.com/parts13.html

 

I just swapped the tank out on my 2011 48 for a denim black iron 883 tank and it looks awesome!

 

Here's mine...