Side panel exhaust stain

[Doc Harley]

Sumpbuster, Do I need to come there and show you how it's done! I will. Hey, should I bring my sled with? Hahaha.....

 

[SumpBuster]

Lol...decided to run it around for a while instead...but it's promising...can feel it bite in...just didn't want to ruin the decals.

 

[SumpBuster]

Sumpbuster, Do I need to come there and show you how it's done! I will. Hey, should I bring my sled with? Hahaha.....
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Yes! It ain't cross country, but it's riding...every one else is preoccupied with whatever....no more grass drags either....bummer. And your panels look great.

 

[SnoWarrior]

Follow up to my side panels. Too much of a pain to clean....easy to muck them up if you use the wrong cleaner.
I bought some black wrap material. Took the white decals off the bottom and stuck them on the new material (back side) and cut new ones.
Should hold up as well as original material.

 

[razor_220]

Hi, just found this thread!! My exhaust side panel just started to get stained when i switched out my silencer. I'm running a GGB trail exhaust. Says i dont need fuel modes with it but after seeing the stains i thought i shoud run a power commander on it.
Is that the right thing i should do or leave it?

 

[WinterWolf]

I find SD20 degrease works fabulous. Doesn’t hurt any of the decals, and dissolves belt dust and exhaust staining nicely. I have a 50th anniversary edition (a lot of white) and the stuff works very well.

 

[Firedawg1998]

Well that almost.sucked the big one. Had new to me 19 sxr for one week. Read this whole post and went to work to clean 7000km of residue off my.sode panels..exhaist side, lower obviously the worst... simple green diluted barely did anyrhing. Now I should have known better. I sure am old enough to have learned a few things the hard way... but, #*$&@.... do not try carb cleaner... I dabbed a dribble on a rag, one rubbed long a lower seem, appeared to remove most of the black.residue. but the first pass over a blue sticker lifted the color right off..right down to the white..... so.lucky that its just a lower slash cut looking sticker so I was able to do some fancy cutting and it looks great again
The rest of my cleaning ended with, whatever simple.green cleans, it cleans... machine looks new at 15 feet, lol

 

[Crossfire12]

I tried plastic chip guard, it comes in a roll it’s for the lower front and rear fenders of trucks. It comes clear I cut to fit lower panel, put over decal. When it gets sooty just clean with anything useing a scratch pad color gray. It will come off and not hurt decal underneath. My sled is white camo.

 

[sideshowBob]

I know...thread from the past but what has everyone been using to clean the side panels. I am starting to see a lot of staining on my exhaust side panel on the white decals that are not cleaning up very well. I have a couple sets of replacement decals but before I use them I want to see what cleans the current ones. I saw that carb cleaner seemed to work but does it not damage the decals?

 

[Carla 123]

Vim and magic eraser

 

[Doc Harley]

I use the combination of Wesley's bleach white and magic eraser, a few weeks ago. Blot on a small amount of product and let it sit for a moment. Probably won't need the magic eraser on this one.
No permanent damage that I can see, after years.

 

[jonlafon1]

I know...thread from the past but what has everyone been using to clean the side panels. I am starting to see a lot of staining on my exhaust side panel on the white decals that are not cleaning up very well. I have a couple sets of replacement decals but before I use them I want to see what cleans the current ones. I saw that carb cleaner seemed to work but does it not damage the decals?

Careful with break cleaner.. Have seen it eat up flat black decals like bleaching a black shirt.. Non chlorinated break cleaner will eat some decals. Not sur of carb but guessing it may

 

[tsiceman]

Wesley's or totally awesome will clean it up.

 

[Kenneth Rogers]

We get this stuff at work called Syncrosol. It really seems to work good on most anything. I don’t know how or where to get it. I sneak a little home now and again.

 

[shawnj]

Simple green worked quite well on the silver part of my decal. I’d say 90% removed very quickly. Only reason I tried it was it was sitting right there. My next move was to remove that decal lol.