Can anyone give me some good info on where to find some tools (Prefer air tools) for polishing my cylinders and cases on my banshee. Or does anyone have any other good means of doing this. I see lots of pics of bikes that are all polished, but noboday seems to be able to give me info on how they went about doing it. Thanks all!

 

Roto-Zip.

 

hey katos, go to www.eastwoodco.com they have everything you need to polish. they have diffrent kinds of kits, tools and polishing wheels and cones.


2000 banshee
2000 warrior

 

along the same lines, i'd like to remove the paint from an engine, but it was just rebuilt & i don't want to ruin the seals or disassemble it.
any suggestions?
sand blasting & glass beading will hurt the seals, won't it? not to metion the havoc if any gets into the engine or tranny...

 

You want to polish it and not taking it apart?? Forget it. You won't be able to do that properly...you'll try everything mounted, then you'll notice numerous spots you can't reach...and will tear it apart to finish. If it's a 2 stroke...wait for the piston to be "worn" and at that moment, polish everything (that's how I'm gonna do it). If it's a 4 stroke...it don't need polishing since it doesn't go fast .
My advice: take the engine apart to polish it (no sandblasting unless you want to sandpaper everything before polishing). Whatever machine you get to do the job...I'd recommend a big stuff bolted to the ground, so you won't continually rip off (the way I did it was holding the parts and pushing on the "grinder-with-cotton(?)-rotating-stuff". It came out like a mirror.

 

thanks for that info,, they have everything i need.

Thanks again
Nate

 

Its really hard to polish. Right now I am on the process to polish the stator cover on my 250r and it takes a while. What not to do is clean the paint off with a thick wire brush, cuz you leave pits on the part, and it hard to polish. You have to use the small brushes like the one for the dremel rotor machine. To polish use that cloth wheel with that white bar they sell and have alot of patience. I dont know if you can sandblast and then polish, because when you sand blast you leave and dull look to the part and I dont think you can get any bright out of that. I want to try later on with that and I will post. Laters.
Oh cylinders are hard to polish because the metal has alot of pits. You gonna get frustrated :-)
Peace

 

yeep,

yes you can sand blast and then polish and it will bring a great shine. in my expierence sand blast paint off and then sand it with 1000 grit sand paper to get small scratches out of it sand blasting markes out of the alluminum then use a good alluminum polish. i use mothers alluminum polish. pretty easy to use and leaves a great shine.

2000 banshee
2000 warrior

 

here is a link that you can check out http://www.macdizzy.com/polishing.htm

 

Any one have pictures of a polished motor, I am thinking about doing it to my banshee while its still really cold and also over my christmas vacation from school. Do they look that much better? And is it worth it?