Cleaning the forks up

[Guest]

after picture in this post, before in next post.

Material:

400 grit 3M (black) metal sandpaper
Fine 3M (red) metal finishing pad
WD-40

Optional - #0000 steel or brass wool
buffing wheel and compound

Took off front wheel, brakes and fender to expose the fork lowers. Used the 400 with WD-40 on the sandpaper and fork to sand around the cylinder...not up and down ...but around. Takes quite a bit of elbow grease. After you get the tarnish and pitting off, use the finishing pad...again with WD-40... same pattern as sanding. Spray the fork with WD-40 and wipe down, then do the same with a clean cloth. Took me an hour and a half to do both forks and put the tire/fender/brakes back on.

[Blue Falcon]

Before Pic

Before picture

[mnferwerda]

Looks great!

[Joe Garfield]

Thanks for the inspiration (and saying it could be done in 90min)!

[ExcelDominus]

Really nice looking man. How did you clean them up if I may ask?

EDIT, I'm a tard who skipped what you typed. Ignore me.

[roeme]

Woah. Thanks for sharing, I'm so going to do this.

[GS11]

Like!!!!!!

[GSXR7ED]

Great post!

I'm scheduled to do fork rebuild soon. This would tidy up the front end which you've proven in a simple manner. Thanks!!!


Ed