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Help!
How can I clean my motorcycle's muffler with a chemical or solvent at home. It should be easily available in the market. Can you give me the name and method how to clean the muffler or silencer.
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There is a post about this subject under tech tips, try two years ago. There is some very good suggestion and comments. If memory serves me “Cold Oven Cleaner” but be careful, it will mare the paint very easily. I think the suggestion was spray oven cleaner into container and then brush it on with natural bristle paint brush. Cover everything that you do not want marred by the cleaner.
Gfurlo
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Oven cleaner will indeed remove built up grease from auto and bike parts. But as has been said, you need to be very careful with what else it gets on, and sprays can be hard to control. And then you have to polish it when you are done.
My Sportster gets oil on the mufflers from the various leaks (it is a Harley after all) and the oil gets cooked on real good. I use Auto Wenol, in the orange tube. It is a diminishing grit polish with some solvents and ammonia in the mix. it comes in a tube like tooth paste, and you put it on with a rag and wipe it off after it dries. That way you have total control over where it goes. And it cleans and polishes in one step. I buy it when I go to custom car and bike shows.
my shifter is on the RIGHT side
1970 Sportster (Bronson Replica)
1999 1500 Vulcan Nomad
Iron Head
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| The Easy Off oven cleaner method does work. I just bought my wife an old Honda CM400T and used it to clean some black, rock-hard material from the head pipes. I sprayed the oven cleaner into a small plastic container and then used a Q-Tip to dab it onto the carbonized material. Allow to soak for at least 15 minutes and preferably longer. Repeat if necessary for larger and thicker spots and apply extra coats as well. Use a hard plastic putty knife to help scrape it off. Rinse the area thoroughly with water afterwards. I'm glad we decided on an old and rather beat up bike instead of a new one. She's already dropped it twice!! Last night I had to heave it out of a ditch when she could not quite turn around on the road leading to our neighborhood. The first time she was able to muscle it up herself.
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