I know there was another post on this subject somewhere but I couldn't find it offhand so I will start a new one.
One of the things bothering me about my GW was the peeling clearcoat or plastic coat or whatever that stuff is on the valve covers. It seems to come off way too hard to be regular clearcoat and I don't think they had clearcoats back in 81.
But anyway, I took them off and using a small soda blaster that I got from Harbor Freight some time ago, I blasted all the plastic junk off which left a kinda nice looking brushed aluminum look which looked 1000 percent better, even if I just left them that way, but I decided to polish the sides. Using a buffing wheel with regular fine rubbing compound I polished the sides and left the fronts with the brushed aluminum look. Kind of a nice contrast, I think, but my SO doesn't agree, She thinks it looks like I was just too lazy to polish the whole thing. Of course she might be just a little right. (the polishing is the time consuming and dirty part of the job)
The whole job took about three hours. The timing belt covers will be next when I get time.
One of the things bothering me about my GW was the peeling clearcoat or plastic coat or whatever that stuff is on the valve covers. It seems to come off way too hard to be regular clearcoat and I don't think they had clearcoats back in 81.
But anyway, I took them off and using a small soda blaster that I got from Harbor Freight some time ago, I blasted all the plastic junk off which left a kinda nice looking brushed aluminum look which looked 1000 percent better, even if I just left them that way, but I decided to polish the sides. Using a buffing wheel with regular fine rubbing compound I polished the sides and left the fronts with the brushed aluminum look. Kind of a nice contrast, I think, but my SO doesn't agree, She thinks it looks like I was just too lazy to polish the whole thing. Of course she might be just a little right. (the polishing is the time consuming and dirty part of the job)
The whole job took about three hours. The timing belt covers will be next when I get time.