1968 F100 Grille Polishing - Using “GRILL” Cleaner?!?! 

A tip I found by accident years ago. If your truck has the aluminum trim piece on the tailgate that says Ford. An easy way to get rid of the anodizing and it polishes it at the same time to were it looks like it's been buffed out is .Get a t-shirt type rag a can of lacquer thinner and wet the shirt not soaking wet but kinda damp and start rubbing the metal. You don't have to bear down on it but use some decent pressure. It will remove the anodizing and give it the polished look at the same time. I've done this on two different Ford F-100's. The last time was about 4 years ago and it looks like I did it yesterday.

Man I’ve got this same 1970 grille , I do appreciate it , thank you from South Australia 🇦🇺

If you can find it, there is a mildly abrasive tile cleaner called Temp. It works great for going from the 4-600 grit phase to a polished finish. And it's fairly mild, not a real nasty chemical. Works great with a damp, natural sponge and elbow grease

Thanks for taking the time to post this video 👍

Hope you are having fun! Haven't been on the site much lately,been moving into new shop and been very hot down here, that doesn't do much for energy. Also go sidetracked from my trucks and been re doing some things on my Harley! Too many toys not enough hrs in a day! But all is good! Hope the same for you too! Hmmmm grills......my 70 needs a touch up, the 69 is fine grill wise, Just the rust icky! Regards L

Great video, I’ll be doing the same to my 71 along with the bump trim soon

Mother's mag and aluminum wheel polish and the mother's power ball are great polishing products...

That is a 1971 grill in the F100. 1968 F100 had floating bars without any plastic inserts.

Did you end up painting the headlight buckets black on the 71? I have a 72 I’m restoring and I just stripped the black from behind the buckets but idk if I should spray the oven cleaner on the entire grill

I need to straighten this light cover on mine, any ideas? I don’t want to replace I really want to fix it

Just an opinion to try, have had really good luck with FLITZ Polish

Why not use buffing wheel?

Would you please shine mine!

Easy off yellow can dollar general oven cleaner cheapest engine degreaser you can buy lol

As it's never a good idea to let brake fluid leak onto paint, it would make srnse to try brake fluid as a paint stripper, just have to clean all the oil off afterwards

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Dude way to much work.. I use the finest steel wool that comes with soapy residue then I use a drill to buff it up and I got irrirror result

Black it out