Exhaust Heat Sheild Polishing

[Tboz65]

Ok, so today I got a little bored, busted out the Polishing kit and started to polish the valve covers on my beloved Mustang (due to a recent antifreeze leak, they looked really, really bad). Anyway, after getting the valve covers done I looked over at my beloved B/W tiller, and decided aw.......screw it.

1 1/2 hrs later, heres the progress, more pics to follow.

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another

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second step in polishing compound

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still step 2 after 5 more min.

[Stabber]

what all does your polishing kit have in it?

[SDTLR]

Looks good

I'll give you an E for effort I know I don't have the patience.

[Tboz65]

Looks good I'll give you an E for effort I know I don't have the patience.

I give myself a CS for Covered in Sh*t

what all does your polishing kit have in it?

Believe it or not, I bought the Sears Craftsman kit you can buy at any sears, its got 4 different polishing compounds and 3 different polishing pads. I think it was like 14$. I've been using the Black compound, and the Red, haven't made it to the white compound yet.

My heat sheilds were really nastly looking, just look at the unpolished one, I will have some pics up, on what they look like on the bike shortly.

[kevh]

Originally posted by Stabber
what all does your polishing kit have in it?

try a tight buffing wheel, polishing roughe, and polishing tripoli. all available at home depot

you will need a fine sandpaper to remove anodizing too (i usually go down to about 1000 or 1500 grit)

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Finished

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another

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Last one...........

[twinzilla]

Nice.....real nice!

[bobpeckham]

Looks nice. Polishing looks great when done right but it is a pain I polished my last bike and ti took forever. The rewards were great and resale value was good but it was a pain.

[freakinheat]

That looks good! THat is from a Sears kit.

[kevh]

tboz, looks sweet

hit those with a tighter wheel (more threads/seams on the side) and the tripoli (white stuff) they will polish up even more!