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Painting Cam Covers With Caliper Paint

jjman

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Hey peeps. Taking off the cam coverages tomorrow to so the gasket seals n thought I might throw a layer of silver caliper paint on them. Has anybody tried this n will it stick properly?

Or is the surface texture and/or the current factory paint going to mess up the new paint?

Sorry if this has been covered before but I'm on my mobi n it can't so thread searches...

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Hey peeps. Taking off the cam coverages tomorrow to so the gasket seals n thought I might throw a layer of silver caliper paint on them. Has anybody tried this n will it stick properly?

Or is the surface texture and/or the current factory paint going to mess up the new paint?

Sorry if this has been covered before but I'm on my mobi n it can't so thread searches...

My personal thoughts are that it is more than likely to work. But to be sure and get that better finish a little prep would probably go a long way. Some light sanding, primer etc....

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Might pay to get a wire brush attachment that fits on a drill. Sand it back and give it a good clean, primer and paint. Be sure to get high temperature paint otherwise the whole thing will be an exercise in futility. Might also pay to get a heat gun from bunnings and go over it so the paint cures properly. I actually want to paint mine but CBF. seems too much work to get everything out and do the whole exercise. Maybe a project for summer.

good luck. Hope I helped

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actually i endned up bailing the respray job :happy:

after the time it took to get all of the intake shit off the motor to get at em properly and the exhaust shit too so i could clean up the oil weepage properly i was over it.

Also after a good degreasing and clean the covers actually came up pretty good so was content to put em back in...

I also didnt want to risk the job not turning out well n having anus looking covers in there. And i wouldnt have taken them back out after spending nigh on $200 for all of the seals, moons grommets...

no thanks, not going to f*k that job up and end up back at square 1.

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