I have a set of Stainless headers for my dragster and they are in NEED of a GOOD cleaning,what is the BEST thing everyone is using ?? Dirty Stainless jjj

chroming

Mothers polish and a power ball. I have some cleaner polish at the shop for semi fuel tanks. I have to get the name. CRS. Most truck parts houses carry it.

Lots of folks recommend White Diamond but I had really good luck with Gord’s Metal Polish.

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Originally posted by jjj:
I have a set of Stainless headers for my dragster and they are in NEED of a GOOD cleaning,what is the BEST thing everyone is using ?? Dirty Stainless jjj

Do you know if they are made from polished SS or just SS tube?

Clean them first with “The Works” toilet bowl cleaner and then shine them up with your favorite metal polish.

Like Rodney said, use the works toilet bowl cleaner. Then I polish them with white diamonds and a air polisher.

Thanks everyone for info,(266 I dont know if polished or tube) will get some works toilet bowl cleaner and polish and go to work!!
Thanks again

Toilet bowl cleaner is the bomb, you need one with i think it's hydrochloric acid. Wipe on, rinse off. No quicker easier process ive ever tried.

I agree with the others about toilet bowl cleaner for cleaning. Harbor Freight sells a small polishing kit. I like the cone shape to chuck up in a drill and polish it out with White Diamond. They look like chrome! But the yellow coloring will always come back after a few runs.

The TB cleaner works pretty good. Just be careful not the get it on anything else while your working. Very corrosive stuff

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Originally posted by Rodney Pryor:
Clean them first with “The Works” toilet bowl cleaner and then shine them up with your favorite metal polish.

Thanks very much again everyone. jjj

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MorgretNation:
The TB cleaner works pretty good. Just be careful not the get it on anything else while your working.
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especially your concrete floor ...

I had a microfiber towel i used. I laid the towel on a piece of aluminum Diamond plate. The next day it oxidized & stained the diamond plate.

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Originally posted by Paul S/Q:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by MorgretNation:
The TB cleaner works pretty good. Just be careful not the get it on anything else while your working.
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especially your concrete floor ...

Long term exposure of stainless to chlorides can induce chloride stress corrosion cracking. However, polishing is certainly not long term exposure. We have stainless tanks at work that had some batches go through and sit there for a few days with a fairly low ph, probably from either our raw material or HCL. The tiny cracks start and those can be the eventual death of a tank.