I've already got some bug guts on the chrome headers of the Deluxe. I spot cleaned a bit of it with Original Bike Spirits and it worked fine. Before I go at the rest of the pipes, I want to know from more experienced members if that's okay. This is the first bike I've had with chrome header pipes and I don't want to do something that will discolor them when they heat up.
Thanks!
Goof off will take everything off your headers. Just do it in a well ventilated area..or outside.
My suggestion for chrome would be the following:
1. Car wash soap and water on cool pipes. Never attempt to clean them while hot.
2. S100 Bike Cleaner
3. WD 40 and a soft cloth
4. SemiChrome Metal Polish
The suggestions will work well for materials that haven't fundamentally changed due to the extreme baking from the exhaust heat.
After that, you may need other "ointments", and a bit of elbow grease. Try to avoid abrasives, however if need be, some have successfully used steel wool grade #0000, I think with a lubricant like WD-40.
I have routinely had success using Peek, available almost anywhere - at least in Canada.
It happens to also polish stainless steel headers, but would not be my #1 go to product to start that exercise. In this case, I would use Peek as the finisher product.
(02-09-2019, 02:26 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ]The suggestions will work well for materials that haven't fundamentally changed due to the extreme baking from the exhaust heat.
After that, you may need other "ointments", and a bit of elbow grease. Try to avoid abrasives, however if need be, some have successfully used steel wool grade #0000, I think with a lubricant like WD-40.
I have routinely had success using Peek, available almost anywhere - at least in Canada.
It happens to also polish stainless steel headers, but would not be my #1 go to product to start that exercise. In this case, I would use Peek as the finisher product.
GO, thanks, you are hired to clean mine = coffee&donuts included
(02-09-2019, 02:30 AM)peterbaron_imp Wrote: [ -> ] (02-09-2019, 02:26 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: [ -> ]The suggestions will work well for materials that haven't fundamentally changed due to the extreme baking from the exhaust heat.
After that, you may need other "ointments", and a bit of elbow grease. Try to avoid abrasives, however if need be, some have successfully used steel wool grade #0000, I think with a lubricant like WD-40.
I have routinely had success using Peek, available almost anywhere - at least in Canada.
It happens to also polish stainless steel headers, but would not be my #1 go to product to start that exercise. In this case, I would use Peek as the finisher product.
GO, thanks, you are hired to clean mine = coffee&donuts included
GO, thanks, you are hired to clean mine = coffee & donuts included
lol - I actually hate cleaning the boogers. I like looking at shiny "chrome", but have no patience otherwise. Anything to help reduce the labour for interested CB owners elsewhere. Mmmm, doe-noughts, hulllll-uuuu-ggttthhh.
often i control after every ride my headers....how many bodys ect i have catch....and minimum after the second ride i clean it....bcos so more backed so more problems after......in the past i used often only simple windowscleaner and after a chromepolisher....
today i use "vulcanet"...cleaning and polish in one step...without water....
the whole bike.....for the normal street-dirt
Honda spray Cleaner and Polish will clean the worst of them off.
For the ones that are shellac, I use Autosol chrome polish and an old sock. Lay a line of Autosol down the header, and spread it around with the sock. Then wrap the sock around the header twice, and pull it back and forth. This is something I have used on headers since the 60s. It's as mean as it smells, so nitrile gloves are a good idea.
Walmart sell these gloves at a reasonable price. Pick up some baby powder while you are there. Dusting your hands with it makes it easy to get the gloves on and off.