How To Remove Melted Rubber From Exhaust Pipes

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How to remove melted rubber from exhaust pipes. I need to know if anyone has had success removing their wifes boot rubber from a BLACK exhaust. I recently took my daughter for a ride on my Harley Davidson. I recommend using gloves as you scrub as the steel can really get under your skin.

It is a mild abrasive that was hard enough to remove the mess but without damaging the finish or reacting with the metal albeit with a LOT of scrubbing. Im very familiar with removal from a CHROME exhaust so please dont list those. Keep cutting and removing until you reach the adhesive layer.

Restored back to better than factory new using scrub pad and stainless steel wool of varying grades with finest finishing using fine stainless wool with Mothers Metal polish. If this is a grocery store type of bag its typically polyethylene so youd need a solvent to melt it off. Cut the rubber -- or the remainder of the rubber -- away from the metal with a sharp serrated knife.

Soft Scrub bath cleaner. If you cannot then cut until you can cut no more. Trying to remove melted plastic from a chrome exhaust pipe needs to be done carefully so as not to mar the chrome finish.

Leave the saturated cloth on the mark for a few hours to soften then rub off. Just dont get it on paint like mentioned earlier and be careful because it spatters on the hot pipes. I dont think this would work real well if there is much rubber built up.

Ive heard that Easy-Off oven cleaner works for thisjust make sure you do it outsidewhen I had a plastic bag fall and hit my pipes I took a short ride then used a damp cloth to clean off the residue. Works great on removing bugs from exhaust pipes and you dont have to rub hard or long. Continue rubbing and picking until the fragments are removed from the exhaust pipe.