How To Polish Stainless Steel Exhaust Pipes

Never do it on hot pipes always cold He says it can be used to clean all oxidation on stainless steel and chrome.

How to polish stainless steel exhaust pipes. 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. Or maybe your like me and found an 800 HKS Super-Header stuck in the mud out on some country bumpkins farm and snatched it up for 40 because it looked like hell. You wont need too much of the product to get a good finish so dont go overboard with it.

Wed Jun 24 2009 728 am. After the degreaser has been applied simply rinse with water and dry with a towel to. Apply polishing compound to the stainless steel pipe and buff the fine lines out with a buffer grinding disc.

Wait 2 to 4 hours for the exhaust to dry. I had a plastic bag cook on my exhaust pipe from the cylinder almost back to the cat. KTM 890 Adventure R 2021.

Im doing this write-up to help all of us out there that has an old header that used be good looking and now its just a couple of pipes. The degreaser will act to break up interior carbon deposits and rust. This blue color can be uniform in appearance but more frequently its uneven and sometimes its even spotty.

Very common on motorbikes with stainless steel chrome or aluminium exhaust pipes it looks like liquid rust. This is the last sign you want to see why rust occurs when a metal is neglected for months it first shows up as corrosion then it becomes rust when it goes into the surface. I have been trying to polish my FMF pipe using steel wool and chrome mothers polish.

Could somebody explain how you can polish stainless or point me to a link. Clean the stainless steel exhaust with a trisodium phosphate cleanser using steel wool. What follows is an explanation of the process and what you can do to stop it assuming you dont.