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Old 06-11-09, 09:09 PM
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Default Polishing the 350 Calipers?

Mine are pretty nasty due to the brake dust, I recall seeing a thread here where a member polished his brakes with a brush. Has any other member done this? Any certain steps or procedure? ie, removal of the calipers/lines? Thanks.
Old 06-11-09, 09:17 PM
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You won't need to remove anything. Just buy some Brake cleaning and a wheel brush. If you want thorough cleaning, you can take your wheels off and put in some elbow grease.
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I did it a long time ago! GL doing it cause it's over 6hrs per caliper!
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its.... sanded down no?
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How do I go about in doing that? What do I need?
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you're gonna need to strip the caliper of that paint, and start sanding from like 300 grit up to around 1000-1500 and use some mothers polish at the end....i use to polish valve covers and stuff on my civic
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