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Second, how the heck do i get this clean, what do i use?? Also, nothing got rid of the pitting, little white pock marks all over the engine.(check next post for pic of it) Does this have to be sanded to get rid of them? I think i know the answer, but im so not the detail/bodywork/sanding/painting guy.. Have no patience for that. But if i have to i have to.. Any thoughts?
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However, if your engine has a factory paint job, I had been told that bead blasting may not be strong enough to take off factory engine paint. I was told that there is another solution (don't know what they call it) which involves blasting it with a mixture of glass bead and water at high pressure. It was described to me as something that requires very specialized equipment to do, and not a lot of places have it. I didn't look into it any further, so that's all I know.
When I did my top end rebuild on my M2, I used a set of 1100 cyls which were painted black from the factory. They were pretty dirty/ugly. So I blasted them with a standard bead blaster to clean them up as best I could. Couldn't get most of the factory paint off. So I just gave them a fresh coat of black high-temp engine paint. I guess I could have gone with aluminum-colored paint. But decided to keep them black.
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What about paint stripper or ez off oven cleaner?
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What about paint stripper or ez off oven cleaner?
Paint stripper did nothing for me.
I tried two different kinds: Aircraft Stripper and something supposedly intended specifically for "epoxy" type paints.
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Frankly, chemicals usually suck on corrosion. Only one I've had any luck with on aluminum is CLR. (Calcium, Lime, Rust remover) Rinse the part good afterwards!
As for mechanical, there is sandpaper, (pain in the butt!) beadblasting, (my fav, but it's alot of work), or a brass bristle brush. You may find the brass brush is the simplest and easiest.
Any way you do it, it's a PITA!
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