Polishing valve cover- Vega help me out!

[Larka]

So I got a polished valve cover from Vega a couple years back. I totally neglected it and had it in my trunk until recently. It looks a little nasty cause I didn't keep it cleaned. I know it's easy to get it all shiney again, just need a quick run down of how to do it.

Like I said, it's been polished before- so I don't need to know about the paint stripping and all that, just need to know how to clean it up.

[droptoutzx2]

wet sand it with 1000grit then 1500 then 2500 and hit it with some polish repeat until clear

[Larka]

So even though it's been polished before, I'd have to sand it again to clean it up? Sounds like fun.

[droptoutzx2]

you might be able to polish it if you got a power one but by hand would be killer but its worth a try not sure how bad yours is

[Larka]

It doesn't look that bad for the most part, like it would just need some polish. But there's a couple spots that got pretty nasty, but they're small.

[droptoutzx2]

still try polishing it first, use some mothers metal polish

[vega]

I would try polishing it with a buffer, i thing sanding would be very agressive since it was previously very shiny.

Good luck

vega