My pipe's dirty, no not because your mum's been over generous with the tips for your milkman, everything down below is fine, its my dep exhaust pipe, its dirty and rusty, anyone have any recomondations for cleaning it up ?
Cheers, frogboy
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Crazy !? is that going to work on a DEP cause its all metal just wanted to clean it not paint it, but if you tell me thats the stuff then i'll get some, you the man !
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its kept in a garage and i do clean the wheels and big one pipe pretty often.
the garage is on a slope and gets flooded evrytime it rains, so annoying, as a results its really moist in there .. rust is a devil lucky i dont have a dep pipe
Trouble is that the coating is so thin and cheap that the more you polish it the more its likely to rust I'm afraid.
Personally I'd give it a good clean and a wipe over with some solvent and then spray it with Wilko's BBQ paint.
(frogboy's best snopp doggy dog voise over) Fo real player, then when i'm in a rush in the morning i can put some sausage on the front pipe and while i'm on my way to work it will griddle my shizzel...
ok i know that was a bad joke
will proberly spray my pipe up soon just going to miss the nice shinny looks it gives my bike
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Well i'm trying to change my rear fender today and thought it would be a good idear to do the pipe at the same time, i bought some plasti-cote BBQ spray from wilko's on the way back from the gym, wilko's got some cool **** , so got it off and sprayed a load of wd40 all over it, will wipe it down in abit then, fak nahs, proberly sand it down ??? anyways have a look at my photos(just waiting on them to upload to photofuket), my bike is well rusty
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they will fall apart lol they're two seperate pipes, im not 100% sure but dep pipes are designed to seal themselves there. and as far as i can tell it all looks godd up your dirty hole lol
cheers mate ! i was abit worried as i've just been ragging her and not cleaning her after, poor girl, wish i had the know how to completely stip her and respray the frame, clean up the engine etc same time....
p.s. slightly off topic but how do i get the tank off ??
-- Edited by frogboy on Friday 5th of March 2010 08:43:33 PM
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it goes just inside your dirty hole filling the lip, by the looks of it yours is still in there. Its the black ring you can see on the pic? if you give it poke it will fall out.
put the new one in its place, dont worry if it keeps falling out, when you attach the exhaust as you turn the studs on the exhaust flange it crushes the gasket and makes it wider sealing the exhaust ;)
Anyway i'm almost done cleaning the pipe now, using a load of differant things, started off with sand paper, but quickly got bored (i'm not getting any younger) so got the grinder out with a wire attachment, remember kids PPE ! (where goggles and gloves) i ripped a hole in the gloves i was using and got a peice of the steel wire imbeded into my face , went and got some wire wool which i found useless as i want to ride my bike some time this year, i also got some small brass wire brushes from my nan's shotgun cleaning kit which are great for getting into the little nooks and cranny's. So i just stopped for a cup of tea and got the missuis to take a photo....
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Yea, painting the whole lot, just put the first coat on, don't no how many i will have to do ?? but it takes 20-30 minutes untill touch dry, then i guess i can put another on on ? Not too sure really :)
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