How To Polish Stainless Steel Exhaust Pipes

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How to polish stainless steel exhaust pipes. I had a plastic bag cook on my exhaust pipe from the cylinder almost back to the cat. Neil says some chrome pipes are plated under solution with no oxygen which is unstable. After the degreaser has been applied simply rinse with water and dry with a towel to.

Apply Exhaust Metal Polish and start using the steel wool. Because of that I eventually used 3M scrub pads I got large sheets at Home Depot cut em in 2 strips wrapped em around the pipe and pulled back and forth around the pipe and roughed upmade the pipes raw Stainless Steel which looked very good to my. Very common on motorbikes with stainless steel chrome or aluminium exhaust pipes it looks like liquid rust.

Repeat until you have a stainless steel pipe polished to the finish you desire. Rinse the exhaust using a water hose. Never let the activator stay on long and hit it with a polish to deactivate and polish he says.

Metal polish would obviously work better but this buffing compound worked fine in. Is looking pretty good on the nicer areas but I cant get rid of the ugly rusted stuff near the exhaust flange close to the head where the pipe turns. Discussion in The Garage.

I tried sanding it down but ended up with pitted surfaces and cant get any shine out of it anymore. Use the wheel brush with the degreaser to get as deep into the exhaust pipe as you can. On my old R1150 I eventually got tired of polishing the pipes heck it would take me anywhere from 3 to 5 hours to do them properly.

Never do it on hot pipes always cold He says it can be used to clean all oxidation on stainless steel and chrome. Apply some of the metal polish directly onto the exhaust tips if you are using Autosol just squeeze some directly out of the tube onto the tip. Polished the stainless steel exhaust pipes of my BMW R1200RT.