How To Clean Stainless Exhaust Pipes
It works best on chrome and stainless.
How to clean stainless exhaust pipes. Could somebody explain how you can polish stainless or point me to a link. I use Purple Power All Wheel Tire Cleaner on my bike exhaust. Now the stainless steel exhaust pipes on my BMW R1200RT needed polishing too after 5000 km on the odometer.
It will eat the rust but of course it cant do anything for the pitting that the rust did. Spray it on for about 20 mins then wash it off. This is probably the best way to clean the pipe since it is very difficult to clean the.
After done use a cloth to remove the polish and polish residues from the exhaust pipe. The shiny mirrored finish that stainless steel exhaust systems have when new would require many many more hours of fine sanding and polishing. Here on the right you can see the result after approx.
Buff the exhaust pipes. Use a waste cloth soft cotton or even micro fibre based on your standards. This videos shows how to clean your dirty burnt stained exhaust manifold midpipe or muffler when common products wouldnt be up to the task.
Use Rubber Gloves affil. Larry I will keep that in mind and beging to look for this acid. The solution to removing blueing on chrome as well as blueing on stainless steel is to polish the metal with a slightly abrasive chemical that will scrape off.
This is patience zone where it requires lots of rubbing cleaning and polishing. Neil says some chrome pipes are plated under solution with no oxygen which is unstable. Your Stainless will look like chrome.