wheels polishing.. progress ( need some tips )

[F 150Cobra]

im polishing the wheels..
its going well by hand but hell its allot of work.. any custom tools i can make and use??

before

i started with the lip
half way

 

[TexasNomad]

Well are your wheels coated? if they are coated its going to be a real nightmare to get them to shine ether way this is a hell of a good kit.
http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=953&itemType=PRODUCT&iProductID=953

and if you have the extra coin look in to this..
http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/...temID=10377&itemType=PRODUCT&iProductID=10377

 

[F 150Cobra]

hmm no i dont think they are coated.. im using this

it works good.. if only i had proper tools.. im just using 100% cotton cloth right now.

 

[lil_dq]

I like the mothers polishing ball for the end of a drill. I use it on mine all the time! get the one with the extension so you can reach down in those wheels.

 

[Brian_B]

I picked up one of the smaller mothers polshing balls last month for m,y truck. They are around $20 and you can use them in a drill. I have a battery drill that I will use.

No...I have not used the ball yet.

I also picked up a couple of the shot gun cleaning buffs (or whatever they are called) to use for smaller areas. They are about 2.5" long. I think I paid less than $5 for 3 of them.

More power! RRRR RRRR RRRR (maybe you did not get that show down there). If you didn't, the joke is lost on you. Sorry.

 

[kustomizingkid]

The polishing ball is the best!!!

 

[UNRULEE]

I used Flitz and their own polishing ball. 20x better than the mothers polishing ball. You'll need Flitz (or something more coarse) to cut through that crud. After 2 years of ND winters the wheels on my 79 where looking worse than the ones pictured. An afternoon of polishin with Flitz and a corded electric drill brought back the shine.

 

[LEB Ben]

Hey Lee...I've been meaning to ask you, where did you pick up your flitz? I can't find them in stores anywhere. And yours is the yellow one (iirc from a thread), and the only ones I can find online are the blue ones...you know if they're any different? The reason I wanna get the flitz is because it's cloth and doesn't deteriorate or tear like the foam mothers balls.

 

[UNRULEE]

I got it from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=Flitz

I also got the 2lb can. I use that stuff for a lot of things.

 

[1985 Ford F-150]

If I had more chrome I would get em but it rusts out so bad here we dont have much shiny stuff.

 

[platinum01]

on the flitz link you can get the stuff used? no thank you :flipoff: i'll take a new one. i use mothers mag and wheel polish. it still takes some elbow greese but the finished product is great.

 

[lil_dq]

Nice to see your light lit again bud!

 

[platinum01]

yeah i decided not to heed the warnings about getting married and having kids. so there is not alot of time for this stuff.

 

[lil_dq]

I hear ya! try being outta town for four days at a time with no internet!

 

[Travis]

I just finished a set of Scorpio Welds a few months ago. The looked pretty rough when I bought them but with a lot of work they looked new again.

This is what a started with

I took some 800 grit wet sand paper and worked all they way up to ultra fine. I have a 8in wheel buffer that I used white rouge to polish with. A drill with a firm buffing pad will work just as good but might take a little longer. And for the back I took a soft bristle wire wheel on a 4in grinder to remove all the crud
After sanding

Here you can see the difference.

The finished project. It took me about 3-4 hours to finish

I did the stainless caps the same way

Backside

 

[dixie_boysles]

check this thread out and you can make them look like new again:

http://www.fordrangerforum.com/exte...-heavily-oxidized-pitted-aluminum-wheels.html

 

[dixie_boysles]

you just need to sand on them with fine grit sandpaper and polish with a Powerball Cone ($20 at walmart)