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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:51 am

wheres the best place to get it from today??

need to do the manifold and cover for a 318Is

any ideas people??

i heard harley davidson do a good one but when i phoned them they dnt seem to know what im on about :cry:
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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:00 am

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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:06 am

cheers buster but link no worky

other thing is i need somewhere i can get it today as doing it today and tmoro

cheers

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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:06 am

i've seen it in halfords... might be their usual crap though

maybe if you hold a furry animal over your mouth and call Harley Davidson again they'll understand you!!! :cool:
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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:35 am

links work now.
This stuffs mail order but its worth it as its really good stuff.
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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:39 am

buster wrote:links work now.
This stuffs mail order but its worth it as its really good stuff.
cheers fella

thats exactly what im after

gonna try find it local today if i fail then will order from then

but vht brand is pretty common so hopefully one of the factors will have it

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Post Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:27 pm

walk into your local auto discount shop and ask for some! even if they dont have any in stock they can usually phone someone to order more.

and hey presto "it's 4.99 a can mate. you can collect it this afternoon"
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:40 am

Hi, daz u got any pics of the painted items? am cleaning mine down to day with the idea of doing them ASAP. What prep did you do?
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:30 pm

i used nitromors...it got all the grease...and everything else .. off...except the powder coating over which you can spray direct with no primer ..its not showing any sign of peeling after3k miles
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:01 pm

just wired brushed everything to get it clean
then washed inside rocker cover etc with parafin to get all the dried clumps of oil out thort i may as well get the inside flowing well while off

have only given the inlet a first couple of coats so far as the rain came :cry:

should have em finished in a couple of days hopefully

couldnt find any crinkle paint yesterday so ended up with just normal vht :roll: oh well its not for my car
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:48 pm

appletree wrote:u got any pics of the painted items?
This is the VHT wrinkle paint

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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:04 pm

What did you use to clean up the lettering Andy?

I did my old M20 rocker cover ages ago but the lettering and 'lines' were all pitted and marked - the same as my S50 cover, so thats just all black at the moment.
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:10 pm

Just sand paper, it's not super shiney and smooth, it's just how the picture came out
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Post Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:20 pm

Andy335Touring wrote:it's not super shiney and smooth, it's just how the picture came out
Cheat :lol:

Best have another go at mine then :x
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