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Don Ripley (171.75.0.130)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 12:51 am: | |
The rims that came on my bus are in bad shape. Before I go to the expense of replacing them,is there a way to refinish the rims myself. Has anyone tried the kit that Por 15 sells? The kit is a bit pricy,but if it works it would be worth it. |
DonTX/KS (66.82.9.36)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 7:48 am: | |
Sure, I bought a set from a dump truck, you could not find a worse looking set. You need an angle type buffer, some polishing compound, and a little work is all. I actually sanded mine with a jitterbug and 320 paper to get out the bad stuff first, but the final product was far better than the factory shine. My son polishes stuff in a factory for a living, so I had some good guidance before I started
If you don't enjoy getting dirty and spending some hours on them, better get some new ones. |
Bill 340 (166.145.108.133)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 7:56 am: | |
Don Try this article.I found this on the Prevost-Stuff.com page and thought this might be of help to you or to anyone else on this board. I copied the page entirely as to give credit to the two gentlemen who did all the work. Hope this helps.
Bill 340
TRY THIS.....--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
My son bought a 67 Mid Engine 35 ft Gilig Bus from Aaron on the Diesel Group and is now making it into a race car hauler camper. He drove the bus home from LA to Chicago with no problems but a single blow out. The tires were maybe 15 years old. This week he replaced the tires with new radials. To make the bus look better he got used truck aluminum wheels. These wheels were never polished and had all the tooling marks and many other issues. The rear dual were just front wheels reversed, and they were rough. They looked hopeless, but we decided to see what we could do with them anyway. We tried many sanders and polishing methods, but what worked and was really not hard, was sanding with 320 grit on a 4 inch orbital electric palm sander. On several very rough spots we used 120, 240, 320, but on most the 320 was all we needed. With 320 followed by a good buffing compound the wheels looked good amazingly good. Because of all of our trial and error my son and myself took 5 hours each to do the 4 wheels, but now with what we learned I think we could do it in 3 hours each or 6 hours total. If you had seen these wheels prior to the start of this project you would not beleive there was any way they would ever look good, but they do and it is not hard to get them looking good. We used Diamond Brite wheel polish as the final polish, which I think it and the palm sander is the key to our results. My son traded for the wheels, but i would think they could be had for a few dollars each due to the poor condition. If you need info on this project please feel free to ask.
John D. 02 Royale son Todd 67 Gilig |
pete (205.188.209.8)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 8:11 am: | |
Thanks Bill..I'm in the process of finding some for my bus. I have access to 4 aluminum rims off a huge wrecker and they want 300 for all of them...im on my way to get them now..lol
pete |
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