How To: Polish Your Dirty Old Motorcycle Engine 

Exactly, I was going to say the same... Paintstripper everytime, then polish to a mirror finish, using soft cotton cloths and Autosol. I found that running the engine, and getting the cases warm- gives a much faster reaction to the paintstipper atracking the laquer or silver finish. Always use a gel painstripper too.. that way is stays where you want it to be!

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Thunderbyrd Most excellent comment on here and exactly what I was thinking! He's young, he's learning, we're all still learning! Hats off to you 👌

Yes he's learning, so we are making comments to guide him, not to criticise.

Thank you for the helpful information

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I don't understand why people keep turning these older bikes into cafe racers and some weird stuff. I love seeing older bikes restored. I'm working on restoring my 81 Kawasaki KZ750 LTD.

I had this same bike ,and wet sanded and used neverdull

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@@GoldGuyRides Just an idea: Take off the things u want to polish, and use a column drill. Just put the bike on the side, to prevent draining the oil. Sandpaper just gives u more work, A nylon/polyester sponge is ok, just polish it wet, u can use oil, saves u time degreasing, Brasso can also be used, and of course, If u want to use ur sundays for other things than polishing: lacquer. :-)

Just curious? Do you have a video on how to do it - would greatly appreciate it

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Its only on step farther to the best method from there, wet sanding. I'd go three grits, like 500, 1000, and 1500, and then high rpm buffing to bring out the mirror look. I have those scotch brite disks but wouldn't put those to my engine, even the softest one would cause a lot of wet sanding (by hand) to remove the scratches, it's almost a guarantee somewhere in that process you WILL have an "OOPS" moment and scratch the shit out of the engine somewhere with the drill chuck or mandrel or edge of the disk while attempting to REMOVE scratches. That can be sanded out but your going backwards trying to run from wet sanding. Man up, roll up your sleeves and forget the drill and turn on some music and get the polished quality your looking for. This video is more fraudulent than informative and you didn't come along today and figure out a better and easier way everyone else never though of until you blessed us stupid Bikers with your drill knowledge. You'd save 15 mins hand work and cause 45 more hard hand work. The only powered machine that should touch a polishing job is the buffer, and that comes AFTER the sanding and goes quickly if you sanded it right. No short cuts or magic creams. If you want to know a real short cut to making a super ugly engine look like new (not polished, just clean looking) This is for engines that were black painted thats chipped away. Just clean it well with a brush and degreaser, rinse, make sure its dry and tape everything off that you need taped off and spray paint the engine with HIGH TEMP ALUMINUM PAINT. Your engine will look new and clean and it do it right it lasts and it's not obvious that it is just paint, it looks sand blasted. But I strayed, this is not polishing. You may want to High Temp Paint your main engine cases and polish the side covers if your really into it or building a hard tail Bobber out of an old Yamaha XS like I did.

I agree...Wet sanding the way to go in many cases. have done it many times

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