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Old Jun 15, 2014 | 10:55 AM
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Default Anyway to remove rust on exaust?
I am guessing that the only way to get the rust off of this is to change the exhaust? It is the cross over, y yipe on the exuast.

 
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Old Jun 15, 2014 | 11:59 AM
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Take a sheet of aluminum foil and a bowl of water. Wad up the aluminum foil, wet it with the water, and use it to scrub off the rust.

Not only will this remove the rust, but the aluminum will tend to fill the pits in the steel, which might help delay the rust from returning.
 
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Old Jun 15, 2014 | 12:08 PM
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Or, SOS pads soaked with water. After you rinse it off and dry it up real good. Finish it up with a coat of "good" chrome/metal polish.
 
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Turtle Wax chrome cleaner and polish, used with a good scrub pad, will, believe it or not, get that rust off, and then leave a protective layer to help delay re-rusting.

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4 zero (0000) steel wool with simechrome. I use it everywhere I see pits...
 
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4 zero (0000) steel wool with simechrome. I use it everywhere I see pits...
This and hit it with polish afterwards.
 
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I 2nd navel jelly, its seriously awsome ****, expensive, 15$ for about 6oz. BUT, it works
 
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you can remove the rust,, but that looks like its through the chrome, if so nothing will bring it back...
 
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you can remove the rust,, but that looks like its through the chrome, if so nothing will bring it back...
This is what I was thinking.
 
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