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Pikeben08
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 - 09:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
I had oil leak out of my forcewinder since the breather is located there. It landed on the header and now I have burned on oil streaks. Any suggestions on how to get rid of them?
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Prior
Posted on Wednesday, August 08, 2012 - 11:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
I had a lady stick a blue walmart bag on the hot D&D headers on my M2, and polished out that area with some fine emery cloth until the plastic and stains were gone. It took a bit for those areas to loose the luster from the emery cloth, but eventually returned to the same color as the rest of the headers after enough heat cycles.
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Pikeben08
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 10:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Alex? It's Wilcox. I have the stock header so it's painted or coated. Is the D&D bare metal? That would make life a lot easier.
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Prior
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 11:38 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
I really should have read that name better. It is Prior.

Having the coated headers is definitely a game changer- can't say I have a solution for that one...
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Pikeben08
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 12:19 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
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Buell_bert
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 03:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Is it the white or blue pipes? If so I would try some fine polishing compound or scratch remover and be very gentle of course. This is my personal opinion. I have a powdercoated gas tank and had the breather plug up and gas spilled all over the new paint which stained it. The Guy that did the job told me to do this. I ended up using Wizards Scratch Remover that I bought at O'Reillys.
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Froggy
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 03:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
I'm not sure about your tuber headers, but on my XB I had the plastic chin fairing come loose and melt to the header, after removing it I just ignored it and the color differences went away after a few thousand miles.
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Pikeben08
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 04:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
It's the grey pipes. Good idea on some polishing compound. I'll probably give that a try.

Froggy - it's dark brown/black. I don't think it's going anywhere.
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Froggy
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 05:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Mine was black too

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Pikeben08
Posted on Thursday, August 09, 2012 - 09:18 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Froggy - OUCH!

Fixed! Ended up using a plastic SOS pad thing and minimal elbow grease. Crisis averted.
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Buell_bert
Posted on Friday, August 10, 2012 - 07:45 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Must have been like a Scotch Brite pad?
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Pikeben08
Posted on Friday, August 10, 2012 - 08:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)
Basically yeah. But aren't scotch brite pads more like a rectangular shape, almost like a sponge?

This was basically an SOS pad but made of plastic instead of steel wool.

I'm sure they would both work equally well.
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