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Baked on car cover.....
Well I made the mistake of covering the car before the pipes were cool enough and now I have a nice dark brown baked on layer of car cover on the collector portion of my exhaust.....
Are there any recommended approaches to dissolving this gunk? Thanks! Regards, Dirk |
Dirk, My suggesstion would be to get a good hhot air gun (Unger) and heat a small section up and then carefuly wioe with OOO steel wool. Not so hard as to scratch your pipes but to absorb and pull of soft plastic. Your cover is a polyester which I used in a medical business I used to own. We would at times have to clean dryers due to excessive heat and had to get this melted plastic from inside the tumbler. Of course we didn't have to worry about micro scratches like you will have to avoid so go easy and lite. You won't get it off easily but when the plastic is hot your can get it off. Do not try a flame type torch since that will tend to burn top of platic rather than melting. Harbor freight has a cheap heat gun but my experience tells me to use a good commercial grade (available from electronic supply house etc) Good Luck!
Dane |
Maybe even #0000 steel wool or better yet- Bronze wool
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Start the car and run it for twenty seconds.
Take a razor blade and swipe one side of it against a piece of glass several times to knock off the burrs. Keep this side against the pipe only and work it off. Steel wool then polish. |
I've used aluminum wheel cleaner paste to take burnt stuff off my side pipes
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Warm pipes, Easy Off oven cleaner, and a plastic ice scraper.
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Thanks!
Thanks for your great ideas! I'll be working on it this week and hope to leave a progress report here after I'm done.
Regards! Dirk |
dirk if they're the factory chrome pipes, just a little lighter fluid will get the plastic off..
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Interesting idea, the oven cleaner...
While I haven't had the car cover thing happen I did get a wayward plastic shopping bag stuck to one of the pipes on my 'vette. Since they were stainless I didn't have to worry about any permenant marks. It was a pain to remove though. The coated exhaust pipes may be a whole other matter though... |
I just went through this with stainless pipes, and it was actually pretty easy. Just let the pipes and baked on cover cool completely, then use a credit card or gift card to scrape off the cover. It flakes off without leaving a mark on the steel.
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