Just got back from a 3600mi loop from CA up through Whitefish MT and back home and trying to get this machine looking respectable again, and not looking like its owned by a homeless vagabond.

Around Seeley Lake in MT, off of the 83, I hit just about the worst section of road repair ever. It was not your normal road grind and resurface, but straight up DIRT and MUD since it was raining. The road was full of these craters and mud sink holes, and I ended up fighting it for 9 miles, honestly it was **** I would not have taken my dirt bike down.

Long story short, I now have a spots where mud has splashed onto the engine and inner primary. I did my best to scrub them with a nylon brush, but there still seems to be some heavy staining. Does anyone have any creative tips before I start getting aggressive with it and end up having to rebuild the engine to repaint it.

 

Maybe try some S100 total cycle cleaner with your nylon brush. When your done, use some engine brightener ( pig spit, Harley Davidson, s100, etc…). Read instructions before applying.

 

thats actually exactly what i've tried so far. I was going to try a slightly more aggressive nylon brush and the s100 again

 

Don't get too vigorous with the brushes

 

Pig Spit is what you need to use.

 

I have some for after clean up, but was thinking I should try to remove the stains first?

 

***UPDATE***

So got some more time today to work on some detailing and found that using S100 with a sponge was far superior to a nylon brush for this type of cleaning. Just a couple of swipes with the sponge and it removed everything (as far as I can tell). Getting a sponge in between the fins on the jugs is a giant pain in the ***, but I'll grab some grout sponges from Lowes and cut them to shape tomorrow to get that all cleaned up. I did wash off the s100 and heat cycled the engine and it looks MUCH better, but i missed a few spots so I'll get them tomorrow.

Thanks guys!

 

Just a suggestion for the future. Get yourself some of those foam tipped qtips on Amazon if you ever need to get in between the fins. They work really good. Glad to hear everything worked out ok. 👍🏻

 

that would have worked very well also. I'll pick some up to keep on hand

 

Cheap foam paint brushes from any hardware store work great at getting between the fins.