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Old Nov 12, 2009 | 10:41 PM
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Default Rusty Sidepipe Headers..

Any opinoins on how best to remove rust from the sidepipe headers?

Tubes are chrome and in decent enough shape, but the headers were raw, so they're pretty rusty...

TIA..
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Old Nov 12, 2009 | 10:56 PM
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leave it and coat them with POR-20. bonds great to rusty surfaces, good to 1400*
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Old Nov 13, 2009 | 03:56 AM
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have them sandblasted like i did
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