stripping and painting a rusty exhaust pipe.

68b_body

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Jan 24, 2008
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i went out and bought some Klean Strip rust remover to remove the surface rust of my FMF pipe.
rustypipe.jpg

it was a bare metal finish not chrome or painted. i used a scotch brite pad and a lil brass brush to remove all the surface rust. then i applied the kleen strip and let set for 10 minutes.
kleenstrip.jpg

this stuff worked great. took it back to the natural steel finish. i preped the surface then painted it with dupli-Color high heat ceramic engine paint http://www.duplicolor.com/products/engine.html
now i never used engine/header paint before so i dont know how well it will hold up.
paintedpipe.jpg
 

City Hunter

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Feb 8, 2008
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I just did the same thing on my ct1 dt175, but I used a wirewheel instead, but the same paint, seems to be holding up nicely so far, but I havent ridsden the bike due to bad seals.
 

68b_body

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Jan 24, 2008
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that kleen strip rust remover is some pretty good stuff. there wasnt any rust left on the pipe after i was done.

City Hunter, so the paint hasen't been flaking off when the pipe gets hot?
 

stumanarama

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Aug 29, 2007
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i wire brushed mine and painted it a while back, turned out good and has held up nicely, except for when my supposed friend laid it down the first day out
 
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