I just put a new Gibson Swept Side Exhaust on about a month ago, and within two weeks, they started chip sealing all the roads in town. Now my beautiful tip is splotched with globs of road tar. Anybody found a good way to get that crap off?

Second question is: I'm assuming "Acetoned Emblems" means you've used acetone to remove the black paint from your emblems? How does one go about doing this? I think it'd look real nice on my truck.

 

well the road tar can be taken off with "bug and Tar Remover" or get some diesel fuel and rub that on there with a cloth. The acetone emblems only works with 98+ year trucks (i think) but all you do is maks off your area and take some of that acetone on a cue tip and rub the black paint off. Just be careful not to get any of it on your truck.

 

Now my beautiful tip is splotched with globs of road tar. Anybody found a good way to get that crap off?

WD40

 

acetone or eagle one never dull for the tar.......for your emblems http://www.fordtruckworld.com/acetone.asp ..if you have an older truck you can get new emblems at the dealer for about $13 a piece which is easier to do any way..since they aren't on your truck... to take the old one's off use a heat gun ,hairdrier,hot day,and some heavy fishing line and saw behind the emblem...

 

The tar remover is available at places like wally-hell (wal-mart) and works fine. Just remember, when you use it, you're removing the wax on that area that you just removed the tar from. Always go back over it with a couple coats of wax once you're finished removing that pesky tar.

Good luck

RP

 

Any type of solvent will remove tar. You'll need something safe for your paint if you got any on there. I like Pro's Pro-Sol or Power-Sol. Both of them just melt tar off right infront of your eyes. You'll apply it and see dark lines running down the paint where you sprayed it on. Let it sit for a minute and the tar just wipes off. You'll have to rewax the area.

Acetoning the emblems is easy. Took me maybe 40mins to do the first one and around 30mins for the other two. Pretty simple!

If you have the XLT stickers, then just make sure you don't rub on them hard. Just lightly go over them. If they get too wet just back off for a second and the acetone will evaporate.

First use que tips to remove 90% of the paint on the bad. Then use some clean ones dipped in acetone to carefully remove the last of the paint and polish it up. IT is a really easy thing to do!

 

is he posting about his exhaust tip or truck paint???

 

I use 3M "General Purpose Adhesive Cleaner" to get tar off of my truck. Once you spray it on the tar just falls right off.

 

I think the tar was really set hard, I picked it up on the way to Reno, so it got baked on really hard. I bought several types of tar and bug remover at the local automotive store. None took the tar off the exhaust tip, though they did get it off the paint. I think the wax on the paint helped. My neighbor has a nice harley davidson fatboy and is always out polishing it. He heard me cussing and came over to see what was the prob. He had the solution for baked on road tar on polished stainless or chrome. Oven Cleaner. Worked like a charm. took the truck for a ride to get the tip nice and hot, took the tip off the pipe, sprayed it on and with a little bit of elbow grease the tar came right off. There were some very minor nicks in the bottom leading edge, as per his advice, I used #0000 steel wool to buff them out. Then I went to the grocery store and picked up a small can of Brasso metal polisher and viola! Bright shiny as new exhaust tip. I don't think I'd try the steel wool/metal polisher on chrome though. This time I waxed the heck out of the tip, hopefully it'll help keep stuff from sticking so hard. Thanks to all for the suggestions.

 

oven cleaner is a good idea I would have never thought of that one. I have always used greesed lightning or Blue Magic