Minging header pipe
 

On my first bike which was an SV650s, my next bike which was a DL1000 and my current bike which is an SV1000s, the front exhaust header pipe always ended up being a rusty red, brown mess. WD40 merely produces an exciting cloud of smoke before the next ride. What is the advice of the forum please?

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barkeeps friend?
think that's what they use.....not my cup of tea

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I used autosol and a scouring pad, but it quickly goes brown again.

You don't notice so much if the rest of your bike is a brown mess too :p

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Autosol and a lot of this:- :toss:

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Barkeepers friend (it's a cleaning powder you mix with water to form a paste, asda have it), very fine wet and dry or wire wool, then autosol to polish.

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fender extender to prevent water spray.... and lots of polishing.....

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Leave it brown and manky and spend your time riding not polishing.

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spent 5 minutes on mine this afternoon with some autoglym metal polish.....came up nice and shiny again.

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just look at my signature ;-)


My first tip was barkeepers friend, then last week I found tip number two!

I also have a fetish for shiny downpipes..oo er :-)

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Well, if the video on the JML website is to be believed then it should do the job - thanks for the advice one and all!

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For really gammy downpipes. Do the Barkeepers friend first, mix into a paste and slap it on..leave it for the time it takes to have a brew. Then get a wet green scourer and scrub. You'll find a load of brown poo stuff will come off with this, and leave the pipe quite smooth.
Then try Doktor Power. These two only get rid of the brown crap welded onto your pipe.

You should start to get a shine and reallly bad parts will go a kind of black colour(don't worry its fine)


After that its wet n dry 800, 1200 and autosol with fine wire wool.

I'm halfway through this process on the third bike in the shed. Its tried and tested method, both my SVs have mirror pipes:-)

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I'm a bit of a lazy ar$e, (hence the name) so the less elbow grease required the better - has anyone tried any polishing powertools? Maybe a dremel with some adapter kit?

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You have to be careful with a dremel. I nearly put a hole in Suzys pipe. I did devise a way of sticking wet n dry discs on one of the attachements, to try sanding some of the really bad bits off. Only thing was, with that was I still had to go and do it again by hand, as it did it in stripes!

If I had a garage I'd do what Lissa does and get a bench grinder or polishing wheel. Rip the whole system off and do it properly. I did have Suzys off when I did hers, but it was all by hand or experimenting with the dremel, before I cheated with the cheap stuff from Asda 8)

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You can quite clearly see surface scratches on that badboy, B- ;)

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:smt007Kwak.....stop it.....must resist.......to show off pipes:p

Are your current downpipes like that eh?:smt047

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i only show the 1000 pipe cus i cant be ar$ed to clean the 4 coming out of the gixer :)

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she was a k3 = 5 years old

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you have way to much time on your hands m8tty

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shame on you...poor gixer! 4 shiny pipes is better than one:p

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hehe, was only teasing, I've got a k3 650 and it's a damn sight uglier than that shiny contraption :)

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If you ever have a desperate need to get rid of a backlog of OCD, feel free to pick on my bike, i'll save you nightmares for the rest of your life tho by NOT posting pics of it :)

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4 shiny pipes coming out of a gixxer motor a good thing you say?

Well volunteered, I will bring my GSXRs exhaust up for you to scrub during the week :-P

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haha well played, well played

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Pi$$ off the Raptor got there first:D

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So do raptor, then do gixxer :-P

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in a word


NO!!!!! :-) One bike this week then back to work. You have no chance!

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I will bring them up anyway, you will not be able to resist the urge to put a shine on them...

Or I'll just PJ1 em...

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You PJ! them, ruin them see if I care ;-)

You don't PJ1 as system like that, you'll be frowned at. Besides they're better grade stainless than the SV so even a half hearted attmept by you should see them right

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http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/2272/1001058.jpg
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/373/1001057i.jpg

Cleeeeeannnn meeee....

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ya lazy git, you could do them yourself:D. They're just slightly tarnished!
Seriously I really don't have the time at the mo. Ask me in a week or two. Not as if its going anywhere:p

maybe, and only maybe You may be able to twist my arm;)

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I don't need doin :confused: ,my pipes are shiny enough thanks.:-D :-D :-D

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http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k1...9122008018.jpg
:smt022:smt022:smt022

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I just avoid looking at mine. There's a clean spot on the tank where my knees have rubbed the dirt off, I look there.

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My brake discs and fork sliders are shiny