(Dish soap works well.) Wash your HANDS while you’re doing this or wear gloves for the next few steps.ħ. After you sand the ENTIRE part, wash it with soap and water. If the part is already painted DON’T sand down to the bare metal if you can avoid it.Ħ.

Let the part dry, then sand it with 220G sand paper. SPRAY THE PART DOWN WITH ENGINE DE-GREASER! This will remove the carburetor cleaner and any residual grease/dirt.ĥ. SPRAY THE PART WITH CARBURETOR CLEANER! This will remove any stickum from stickers, and will break up the hard grease and gasoline residue on the parts.Ĥ. Remove ALL STICKERS, do NOT paint over them.ģ. If the part has multiple pieces attached, make sure you remove EVERYTHING from it.Ģ. If it’s a wheel, or handlebars, or something where another part is attached to it, REMOVE the other parts, or tape them up as CLOSELY as possible.ġc. Remove the part you intend to paint from the ped.ġb. Once you've got your action plan it's time to. I recommend a good Haynes manual or one of the multiple work-shop books found at the repair page. Make sure you follow the instructions in the manual as every one is a tad different. Make sure you have a good manual!! There's nothing worse than ripping into a paint project and forgetting how to put things back together once you're done. So, obviously, a complete disassembly is needed. The main parts that are the body color are the headlight bucket, frame, front fender, and swing-arm. In the case of this photo the bike is a basic orange with a lot of little odds and ends painted a different color. Remember, this is what you want to shoot for, this will give you a goal and the start of a blueprint for the process in which you remove parts, clean parts, prep parts, paint them, and reinstall them in the end. Start drawing out what you want to shoot for (you don't need to be an artist, you just need to see where you're going before you end up in a place you don't want to be). Make some lists of color choices and get a pack of colored pencils. Go through some sketches, renderings, pictures of other bikes and try to get a sense of the direction you want your paint to take. The trick is to have an idea of what you want BEFORE you tear into your bike. On the same note, you can buy a couple $3 rattle-cans and get a top-shelf paint job (Normally my approach). You can spend 100’s of $$$ on expensive paint and it will look like crap if you don’t know what you’re doing.

10 Painting the Engine/Exhaust (Hot Stuff).

9 Caring for Your Paint and Things to Consider.7.2 Fixing Rust pitting before you paint:.

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