anyone know of a good polish or acid that would clean up my lower forks? i rescued my bike from being in a shed for 7 years and time really took its toll on them i tried mothers and it didn't do much for them or maybe someone's got a nice used pair of lower forks for an 01 super glide? thanks

 

do a search about painting the lowers with epoxy paint. jrk5892 did a great write up of the process and they come out great. you can look at my winter project album and there are some pix of mine.

 

Check out this thread by tomt:

Polished Lowers Project

and these from the *HOW TO * under fifty bux* thread by mud:

post# 1167 …… fork service (part 1) ................................... mud
post# 1168 …… fork service (part 2) ................................... mud
post# 1169 …… fork service (part 3) ................................... mud
post# 1191 ..... fork service (part 4) .................................. mud

 

You need to strip the clearcoat off before you can polish them. Aircraft stripper will take it right off. After that, polish them with what ever method suits you. I prefer to take 'em off the bike and polish them on my bench buffer.

All of you aluminum can polished the same way....I certainly like my polished aluminum.

 

once again great info thanks that link you posted fxd2003 is the way i think i'mj gonna go cause i gotta tell ya my lowers are just like that and they came out SWEET nicely done tomt! i'm gonna get right at it this week i also just got my wild ones drag bars i'm gonna take some pictures of before and after hopefully i'll be able to share this stuff with other newbies like me thanks again

 

My pleasure, anxious to see those images!

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