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Message started by Mattdw on 08/24/08 at 20:51:33

Title: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by Mattdw on 08/24/08 at 20:51:33

is it possible ? I've heard of products that claim success
any truth to the claims? If so, recommendations?

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by aysrav on 08/25/08 at 03:32:58

I have used Blue Buster, Blue Job and Flitz. All claim to remove blueing. All should be pretty easily found on ebay. I probably like Flitz best just because of its consistency. No flaking or clumping up, just nice and creamy. There is no magic formula, but I have alternated these three and kept my blueing to a minimum.
aysrav

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by mick on 08/25/08 at 15:37:01

Blue job did not work for me.
try a gun blueing kit,there is some stuff in the kit for removing the old blueing,it worked for me.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by Sandy Koocanusa on 08/25/08 at 18:33:25

It seems like I'm the only one it works for, but Nevr-Dull wipes the color right off my pipe with one swipe. I quit doing it though, because the color matched my paint so well that I got to liking it.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by skrapiron on 08/26/08 at 05:44:55

The gun blue remover worked for me as well, but the underlying chrome was never as bright as it was new.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by sjaskow on 08/26/08 at 11:12:35

Maybe I'm weird ;D but I actually like the blueing on my pipes. To me, it makes the bike seem like it's doing what it was designed for: being ridden every day. Really really chrome pipes remind me of the HD people who ride the bike to the QSL bike night one a month and that's it.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by GrateFuLDad on 08/27/08 at 03:43:16

you do realize that the blue means youre running lean? best to rejet that carb and then blue away the muffler or so i am told...

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by Mattdw on 08/27/08 at 14:39:12

487D6E7B6A497A434B6E6B0F0 wrote:

you do realize that the blue means youre running lean? best to rejet that carb and then blue away the muffler or so i am told...

Yep, I bought the Lancer kit, and doing some other work. After it is all rejetted, tuned...gonna clean it up, and see if it does the magic color change again.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by serowbot on 08/27/08 at 15:02:57

Blue pipes do not mean you're running lean!!!...........

They simply mean that your engine is running hot enough to blue chrome pipes..
This can be from lean running, also rich, or just bad....or it can be a perfectly tuned and running engine that is working hard. Stop and go traffic, long rides through elevation or temperature changes.
The Savage has a very thin double wall pipe. If it had a single wall pipe it would be blue no matter what...if it had a very thick inner wall you couldn't blue the outer pipe without using a blowtorch.
Tuning a carb based on pipe color is not a good way to go.

If you don't like the color, by all means remove it. But it indicates virtually nothing other than the nature of the beast.

I like the blue...makes it less of a girls bike,...know what I mean? No offense to the girls,...most of them don't want it to be a girls bike either.

Title: Re: Removing Blue and Gold on the muffler.
Post by KwakNut on 08/28/08 at 07:32:46

Have to agree with serowbot on his comments above - I've had plenty of bikes set up to perfection on dynos which still turn the pipes blue - only really thick twinwalls tend to stay fresh chrome.

My new Raask pipe started to go blue when my newly rebuilt Savage engine was idling so rich it sooted up the spark plug.