Painting rocker boxes?
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Painting rocker boxes?
Has anyone ever used engine paint on their rocker boxes? I have a FXDF with the "raw" aluminum color and can't keep them clean under the tank. Thinking a high temp (paint says OK to 500 degrees) gloss black would look good and be easier to keep clean. It's either that or wait until I can afford to get the powder coated. Or maybe i do this until I can get them powdered. Thoughts?
we do a rocker box exchange. after you buy paint, primer, masking, cleaning wipe, tack cloths, and sanding paper you will be close to our price anyway. We can coat them and send them to you, you can sit down remove the stock and then install the freshly coated rockers, ship us back your stock ones. easy process and this way you have nicely coated rockers. do it right do it once. plus with powder it is much more resistant to chemicals and heat, so you will not have to worry about it chipping off our staining
Last edited by JRK5892; Jan 6, 2014 at 10:25 AM.
Painting works pretty good. I blacked out the grey engine on my 883. Didn't want to change the bottom rocker box cover so I just painted it along with the rest of the motor with Harley wrinkle black.
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Joe powdered my upper rocker boxes also. They came out fantastic. I've done bike engines in the past with dupli-color engine block paint. They came out well too. But if you want them to come out well, you need to do a lot of prep work to do it right. That takes time and money for supplies, and believe me, you'll be unhappy with the whole process if you half-*** it and it comes out like crap.
Either way you do it, good luck with it
Either way you do it, good luck with it
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we do a rocker box exchange. after you buy paint, primer, masking, cleaning wipe, tack cloths, and sanding paper you will be close to our price anyway. We can coat them and send them to you, you can sit down remove the stock and then install the freshly coated rockers, ship us back your stock ones. easy process and this way you have nicely coated rockers. do it right do it once. plus with powder it is much more resistant to chemicals and heat, so you will not have to worry about it chipping off our staining
Can you PM me the info on rocker covers exchange? I wanted wrinkle black ones for my switchback, but don't feel like doing the whole swap. When I read, 'find top dead center...' I said, not worth it. Never thought of doing just the top covers until I saw that pic. I like it
Thanks,
JB