The Powdercoating on the Wheels is pretty low grade stuff.





Powdercoating and stripper mess

 

Eww looks like your wheels have a yeast infection hehe .

But for real i cant wait to see the finished product. Polished wheels are bitch to keep clean but well worth it. I love my Boyds

 

were those wheels stock or did you have them powdercoated???reason i ask is because they are only painted from the factory,also what are you using to strip them???i was thinking of doing this myself even if it takes a year to get done.

 

I have been scuffing my 20" reps down to be repainted. All I been using is some 320 grit. That's all, but I am repainting them, not polishing them. If someone wants to repaint there wheels, just scuff them down a little for the paint to stick. It has been taking me about an 1 1/2 hours per 20" wheel.

 

I am guessing that Vin's guess of yeast infection prolly isn't that far off then

--Joe

 

I thought it was the same stuff on our blowers, which cam off pretty easily with stripper. I used Strippez Industrial strenght from Lowes. Works good just need multiple coats.

 

My wheels look like that now, without that stripper mess

 

ewwwww thats nasty!

 

Next time TampaBlack99 or anyone else thinking about doing this go to a body shop supply store and get some Aircraft paint stripper ($30.00 gallon). I just used it on my 93 L wheels and I don't think you can buy a more potent stripper. I also used a pressure washer between coats and although I got a shower each time it worked good. Here are my 93 wheels I just got back from the powder coater.

 

Darin is definitely right. Aircraft stripper is excellent. Use above 65 degrees for best results.

Tim

 

Definately above 65 deg. or it doesn't work well, I found out the hard way. Also if you put a sheet of plastic (I used barbage bags) over the part while the stripper is working it helps the stripper by not letting the stuff evaporate.

 

Awesome, but where can I find barbage bags???

Seriously, though - I may powdercoat my rims now! After seeing how Darin's came out... MAN, they look GREAT.

Does anyone think a black center with red outer ring would look crappy? Or, ricey?

 

BlkBanshee,
I got the idea after seeing a GEN 2 truck on this site that someone did the same way. I don't know how a red outer ring would look and I don't know if you can powder coat it like that. I do know that I had a hard time finding a place that would leave the lip polished, most places would only do the whole wheel or nothing.

 

So geting the paint off looks easy enough-- but how hard is it to get a shine to them?

/tg

 

This is only 1.5 hrs after using a air grinder with 120 grit abrasive pad. Going to wetsand the spokes so they are perfectly even.