cleaning/polishing tunnel

[brettg100]

Im looking to clean up my tunnel. i removed the track length and saftey stickers and you can see where they were before. im not looking to waste alot of time polishing it until it looks like a mirror, just want it to be clean and maybe a little shiny. anyone have any tips or advice on how to clean it up? products? thanks alot

 

[joe julkowski]

I just did mine, I used mothers aluminum polish and many hours but looks great.

 

[deepdiver]

Go to schucks, checcker or Pepboys or maybe even wallyworld..get Mothers Alum. Polish (Red bottle) like Joe said, then get the Mothers polishing ball. I use the Mini..it has a shaft that you can hold. This will take the hours and take it to minutes. Any alum cleaner will work. I would stay away from Never dull and brasso...I tried them and never dull leaves fine scratches and brasso smells like the south end of a large steer and doesnt do that well either. I have tried Wizards and semi chrome..all good products but dont do any better than Mothers and will cost you a lot more. Save the good stuff for smaller jobs like Motorcycles.

You can take a handheld grinder to the front spindles then put a course sanding flapper disk on and bring it smoother and then can get the spindles to look like chrome.

I you want to get anal and have extra time ..you can get a real buffing wheel with a drill adapter and use polishing roughe(spelling??)

Personally I wouldnt spend a boatload of time on it..its Alum. and it just doesnt stay polished for long out in the elements. I just do it at the beggining of the season.

 

[r.a.]

You wont go wrong with Mothers I would get a power ball also. Saves time
and wear and tear on the hands, have plenty of cloth. Mine looks great Im not sure for how long thou Have fun.

 

[ne1cadrgn]

There is another thread that might help you in Deep powder...or fouled plug ...not sure which one called polishing tunnel.

 

[Mandic]

I just did mine last night. Cleaned it with a concentrated aluminum cleaner. Sanded major scratches with 1000 and 2000 grit sand paper(dumb me scratched it scraping stickers). Then I cleaned it again, followed by a buffing with buffing compound to even out the finish from sanding. Then cleaned again. Then polished with Mothers polish. Didn't turn out great but it was about midnight when I was finishing up, so drive and effort were on the downturn. Looks a lot better then it did and better than any of the sleds I ride with, so that is all that matters. I am going to use a decent metal wax and wax it too. Try and keep it looking decent as long as possible.

 

[cowboymann02]

I use those Mr. Eraser the you buy at walmart. just get them wet and buff. they do a good job of removing the black off the tunnel, but you will go though a lot, at least they are cheap. i found this method after buffing my tunnel 2 years ago by hand. just keep clean water on hand to rinse out Eraser. hope this helps....

 

[mitchellkemppainen]

i use never dull eagles one and it works really good and it holds a good shin for a long time