How to Clean Baked-on Rubber From Chrome Exhaust Pipes
When you have chrome exhaust pipes on your motorcycle, ATV, car or truck, you want to keep them looking as new as possible for as long as possible. Rubber particles from tires and the road can land on the hot chrome pipe while you are driving and dry in place. Over time the baked-on rubber begins to build up and makes your chrome unsightly. You will need to properly clean off the rubber to make the chrome pipes look new again.
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Instructions
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Allow your vehicle to cool several hours before you clean the chrome exhaust pipes. The pipes are very hot just after you shut off the engine.
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Polish the entire chrome exhaust pipe in a circular motion with a dry rag to wipe away any debris or loose rubber chunks.
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Fill a bowl with vinegar. Crumple up a piece of aluminum foil and dip it into the vinegar.
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Circularly polish the entire surface of the chrome exhaust pipes with the aluminum foil. Dip the aluminum foil into the vinegar often to keep it saturated and to prevent scratching the pipes. The aluminum foil and vinegar will loosen and polish away all the baked-on rubber.
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Thoroughly dry the chrome exhaust pipes with a dry rag once you have removed all the baked-on rubber.
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References
- Photo Credit moto & chrome image by Sébastien Maurer from Fotolia.com
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onetree
Nov 13, 2010
1/ Heat up exhaust pipe to quite hot. 2/ Use a thick wad of cotton cloth (don't use non-synthetic cloth) coat the plastic with Autosol Metal Polish. 3/ Next trick is to use a small piece of pine wood e.g. any off-cut approx 1/2" square, or dowel. The rougher the sawn off end the better. 4/ Hold the wood like a pencil and rub/scrape off the plastic. The 'bristles' at the end of the wood collect up the pastic quiet effectivly. Wood is great as it is a heat insulator (saves burning fingers on the pipe), softer than chrome so won't scratch it and hard enough to scrape off the plastic. Once the tip of the wood is clogged with plastic cut a bit off and continue. 5/ Finally polish the chrome with Autosol and cotton cloth. It worked great for me...
