How To Clean Stainless Exhaust Pipes

I had a plastic bag cook on my exhaust pipe from the cylinder almost back to the cat.

How to clean stainless exhaust pipes. This is patience zone where it requires lots of rubbing cleaning and polishing. Now the stainless steel exhaust pipes on my BMW R1200RT needed polishing too after 5000 km on the odometer. Apply autosol with your fingers and cover the pipes as much as you can.

Carefully rubbing the headers with some water and emery paper to retain the brushed finish. Neil says some chrome pipes are plated under solution with no oxygen which is unstable. Carefully shaving off as much plastic as I could with a brand new Stanley knife blade between forefinger and thumb.

Use a waste cloth soft cotton or even micro fibre based on your standards. 35-40 minutes of polishing as described above. Link to infoproduct on Amazon or it will chemically burn your skin.

The tubing is approximately 1mm thick and runs the entire length from the engine manifold through to the muffler. After done use a cloth to remove the polish and polish residues from the exhaust pipe. The shiny mirrored finish that stainless steel exhaust systems have when new would require many many more hours of fine sanding and polishing.

This videos shows how to clean your dirty burnt stained exhaust manifold midpipe or muffler when common products wouldnt be up to the task. Here on the right you can see the result after approx. Use steel wool for very dirty exhaust tips.

Buff the exhaust pipes. I use Purple Power All Wheel Tire Cleaner on my bike exhaust. Things To Bear In Mind About Bluing.