Muffler tar
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Joined: Jul 2007
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From: SW Minnesota
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.
Warning: Kerosene is a solvent easily absorbed through your skin, so wear rubber gloves.
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Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Baton Rouge, LA
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.
Warning: Kerosene is a solvent easily absorbed through your skin, so wear rubber gloves.
Road Master
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: sarasota, fl
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
works real well
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From: SW Minnesota
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.
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.
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Cruiser
Joined: Mar 2008
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From: The Frozen North - Hastings Michigan
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.
Road Master
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: NWFL
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.
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