Atlas tank rubberband

Does the rubber band hook on the tank and wrap around the crosstube right under the tank and the go back to the tank? I have a new AN band but it feels like a pretty hard pull to get it routed as such but I can't see any other way.

On my slimline there is a bracket projecting downward (at an angle) from the centre of the cross-tube. It has 2 x 1/4" holes.
I made an alloy piece, which screws to these 2 holes, which captures the rubber.

Edit: You can just see it in this shot from the '62 parts list. It's partly obscured by the top LH rail.

I wondered if that bracket might have had something to do with this.

MikeG said:

I wondered if that bracket might have had something to do with this.

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I could not find anything on this so just made it work.
I'm sure someone like texaslick will correct me if I'm wrong.
Cheers

This is the way the PO did it on the first 650SS I owned in 1970 and the way I have done it ever since. Large "rubber band" made from an old inner tube hooked on to the two seat securing prongs on the frame and then around the hook on the back of the tank. Don't know if this is concours but it's simple and effective.

I have the short 2 1/2 gallon tank. Original rubber band was a short band that looped over the bracket that robs ss shows in his diagram, then went under the cross tube and up over the tank hook.

After the band deteriorated, I used a thick section O ring that worked similarly. I found a part number somewhere for the Atlas tank rubber band, bought one from AN, but found it was much too long ..... perhaps it was for the larger tank, or perhaps it is meant to secure the tank in the manner Bodger suggests.

I now have a rubber band, obtained from ???, that hooks up in the way the OP cites .... that is over the tank hook, then under the cross bar, crossing from front to rear, then back up to the tank hook. Works fine but is not concour's original.

Slick

I remember now I use sewerage pipe o-rings (new ones!) - for the tank as well as holding the central oil tank to its (lower) frame cross-member (the removable one!)

robs ss said:

On my slimline there is a bracket projecting downward (at an angle) from the centre of the cross-tube. It has 2 x 1/4" holes.

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The bracket is mounting place for the two condensers. If you have that kind of ignition.

Thanks Mike, I have always wondered what that bracket was for.

The bracket was orriginaly there as a mounting for the across the frame single coil that was introduced with the first coil ign bikes (18d2 and 18d1 ) distributors. A large "C" clip with rubber insulator bolted to the bracket with a cycle thread nut and bolt.