stained exhaust

[Kevin]

If your mufflers have rubber melted to them from passenger's boots, you can spray easy off oven cleaner on the chrome. Let it set for a couple of hours and wipe everything off.       

[h2olawyer]

Excellent tip!  I had some of the nylon from my riding pants melt to my exhaust a few years ago.  Happened while I was filling the tank in Kernville, CA.  I tried everything I could think of that would remove the stuff.  Still have some staining on the chrome.  Will give it a try!

H₂O

[YellowJacket!]

Kevin, was that on the set I sent you?  I actually think that was some of the skinn off Lucky's shins on them.  LOL!
Back when they were on my bike and Lucky and I were doing some tuning, he leaned against my pipes and .....Ouch!  Got scalded.

David

[kwells]

super fine steel wool will as well.

[h2olawyer]

Better be real fine steel wool so you don't scratch the chrome.  I didn't want to trust that option.  I did try bug & tar remover, carb cleaner, brake cleaner, softer plastic scrubbing pads, Goo-Gone, Simple Green and I don't remember what else.  Got most of it with the bug & tar remover, combined with a soft plastic pot scrubber.  I have a self cleaning oven, so I don't have any oven cleaner on hand at the moment.  Will give it a try this week, though.

H₂O

[kwells]

yah as long as you get the XXXX fine wool it will be ok.  Done a few exhausts now using that stuff.

[h2olawyer]

One thing I've always wondered about steel wool -- why don't the sheep rust?   ;D

H₂O

[Rick G]

I've used 4 ought steel wool , many times to remove a wide range of stuff from chrome exhaust systems , very effective and doesn't  deterorate the chrome at all.

[Brian Moffet]

One thing I've always wondered about steel wool -- why don't the sheep rust? 

Ever smell a sheep?  They have so much oil coming off the skin, they couldn't rust!

[h2olawyer]

When they're still wooly, it's called lanolin.  After they're butchered & roasting over a spit, it's called tallow.   ;D

Actually, sheep shearers tend to have very soft hands - an oddity in the ag arena.  All the lanolin from the wool really keeps their hands from getting rough and calloused like happens to so many ag folks.

(insert favorite sheep joke here   :D )

I'm not a fan of working around sheep.  I know we've bred them to be stupid, but WOW!  Less likely to injure you than cattle, but much more difficult to herd around unless you have a good dog or two.

There is a wide swath of land that crosses the Continental Divide in the Mt. Zirkel Wilderness.  It used to be (and is still) called the 'sheep driveway'.  The early ranchers in the area would move sheep from the Elk River Valley and ranches farther west, into Moffat County and even on into Utah - over the sheep driveway, into North Park and back.  (The grass hay in North Park is some of the most nutritious in the nation.)  The swath is still mostly devoid of vegitation because those damn creatures (meadow maggots or range lice) stripped the ground bare (elevations exceed 11,000ft. at the divide).  This is true even though they stopped moving sheep over that route at least 60 years ago.

H₂O

[Lucky]

oven cleaner always says on the can not to use on chrome racks...