How To Clean And Polish Stainless Steel Exhaust

Cleaning Stainless Steel Exhaust.

How to clean and polish stainless steel exhaust. Mix 2 parts water to 1 part Muriatic Acid. Letting the headers go back to ambient temperature. FAST - EASY- CHEAP.

Provided you use a good product Bar Keepers friend is popular and very effective and youre willing to do the hard work you can. Carefully rubbing the headers with some water and emery paper to retain the brushed finish. Rinse the exhaust using a water hose.

Scotchbright and 3M make hand pads for polishing. Clean the exhaust pipe -Use a wheel brush and a degreaser to get inside of the exhaust pipe. Load your brass wire wheel onto your angle grinder die grinder and go to town.

Follow all safety instructions provided with cleaning or polishing agents. After removing the oxidation and staining it will leave you with a nice satin finish. Clean the stainless steel exhaust with a trisodium phosphate cleanser using steel wool.

On Tour On 2 Wheels we have a good article on Cleaning stainless steel exhaust pipes which gives background on why they go from nice shiny to yellow blue as well as tips on how to best polish and with what materials. You may want to consider putting a polished sleeve around the pipes so that the heat wont transfer so easily and you wont have to polish every time you drive around. I had a plastic bag cook on my exhaust pipe from the cylinder almost back to the cat.

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 the oxidized layer. Use steel wool for very dirty exhaust tips. How To Remove Blueing.