Does any one know how to get burned on road tar from your mufflers ? I tried many ways and polishes to no avail.

 

0000 steel wool works great.

 

Ditto on the steel wool, but dip it in kerosene first. Best cleaner/solvent there is, period. Wash afterwards with soapy water to remove the kerosene, and your chrome will shine like never before.

Warning: Kerosene is a solvent easily absorbed through your skin, so wear rubber gloves.

 

WD-40 or carb cleaner.

 

+1 on kerosene, but steel wool on chrome mufflers doesn't sound good to me, even if the texture is very fine.

 

I've always use 0000 steel wool and easy off oven cleaner, just spray the easy off on a rag AWAY from the bike.

 

Easy-Off "cold"- not the product for a warm oven. Let it sit and use a hard piece of plastic to scrape it off then a good chrome polish (Meguiar's has a good one)
works real well

 

Man, don't make it so hard! Just use ultra fine steel wool and kerosene, and throw the scrapers away !

Run your hands up and down your pipes...especially on the down side facing the road, and feel the "roughness" of road grime. Rubbing with steel wool and kerosene will leave them feeling like they just came from the chromers.

A couple of teaspoons full in a gallon of wash water will also do wonders when washing a car, and it also makes an excellent engine degreaser when used full strength. It does not harm paint, but dissolves (and helps prevent) rust as well.

 

A+ with the ultra fine steel wool, have been using that, dabbed in Semichrome polish, on my pipes for years to get rid of tar, and burned on boot rubber. Works great, and doesn't harm the chrome.

 

I have done a fair amount of roofing with roofing tar. The only thing that i found that will get it off, without taking your skin with it, is MOJO hand clear with lanolin. rub it in and it will "melt" the tar off your hands. i tried it on a muffler once where a buddy's shoe had melted on the mufflers, worked well.