WHat has been tried to refinish stock alcoa wheels? I picked up a set that has the clear turning white and bubbling up in places? Can these be blasted and recleared or polished???
If the old rims have a clearcoat on them, go to napa and
get a can of their paint stripper and remove the clearcoat.
After u get the clearcoat off take some good alum polish
and start rubbing. I used http://www.englishcustompolishing.com/index.html
I had some old american racing rims that were in pretty bad
shape and was able to get them looking pretty nice.
Took about a day per rim.
The web page has some good advice on how to do the restoration as well. Hope this helps!!!!!!!!
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97 F-250 EC HOME MADE TYMAR
20 YEAR OLD AMERICAN RACING 16.5" ALUM WHEELS
3" DOWNPIPE, WILDMAN CHIP, C2 GAUGES, SOUTH BEND CON-E CLUTCH
I have heard the factory rims are less like a clearcoat and more like a plastic coating? ANybody confirm or deny that? I would love to refinish my wheels as well.
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my coating was almost gone. We have a Aluminum wheel cleaner in the detail shop. It shines them up in no time flat.
You'd recognize the smell and the sting. It's a Hydrochloric Acid dilution.
spray it on, let sit until you can grab the pressure washer and blast it off.
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'97 CC F350 PSD. 4x4. Auto. Black. Wildman 6pos Chip! BB in FPR. KCM HPX from ITP. 3"DP. AFE intake. 3.55's. BFG MT KM2 315/75/16's. Reunel Front and Rear Bumpers. Ford AIC module. Warn HD manual hubs. AutoMeter Z-series gauges on the pilar. <span style="color: red">((Sky RSK w/SD springs and bilsteins waiting in the living room))</span> MY TRUCK PICS!
The coating on mine is no where near gone, but just bubbled in places. For the record mine are the dished style wheels, they have more of a gray'ish tent to them verses the flat version that is more polished looking.
The clear coating is a clear powder coating. That is why it has the plastic look. You can remove it with a good SOLVENT based paint stripper or one of my buddies used a can of GASKET Remover from NAPA. After that he cleaned them with a acid aluminum cleaner and then buffed and polished them up. Looked like mirrors. The only problem is with out the clear coating, they will loose there shine fairly quick.
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2008 F-350 SRW CC, Auto. Love It.
97 F-350 CC SRW4x4 5 speed manual South Bend Clutch. Tymar Intake, 3" Down Pipe and a Custom 4 inch Exaust. Soon to start a few other minor mods for a few more ponies.
ADDED: 95 F-450 reg. cab. 183" wheelbase, 5 speed manual, 5:13 gears. Bone Stock for now. Bought it with 67,500 miles, for $8,500.00. Has a 13ft. flat bed, with a Ramsy 9ton dump.
Do a google search for wheel reconditioning, or contact your local bodyshop. In CA WheelsAmerica does it for like $120/wheel. Might be cheaper if all you want is refinish.
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95 CCLB 4X4, DP, TYMAR, 5POS CHIP, 4",3 GUAGE POD, 115k, 265/75/16 bfg E, E4OD,4.10s,Putnams hitches front and rear,Air bags rear.
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