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03-05-2020, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
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Aluminum Valve Cover Restoration
I have a set of aluminum valve covers that have been sitting in the shed for 30 plus years and now are looking really rough, I would like to restore them and use them again.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what product / procedure works best? |
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03-05-2020, 10:17 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Mt Airy, MD
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Re: Aluminum Valve Cover Restoration
Glass bead. If you want the fins polished, sand and work on down to finer and go to polishing compounds.
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03-05-2020, 10:25 AM
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Re: Aluminum Valve Cover Restoration
Special K beat me to it. Find someone with a blast cabinet with glass beads. You can then decide what you want to do from there but it will clean then up really well. Done many an aluminum motorcycle piece in my cabinet.
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03-05-2020, 01:00 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: Aluminum Valve Cover Restoration
This might not be an issue, and I'm only bringing it up because I see it come up now and then with true vintage small block Chevy covers.
Make sure the hold down holes are straight across from each other. The earlier covers have staggered holes. Would be a bummer if you had held on to these for so long and spent all the work making the all pretty and they wouldn't fit.
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