Burnt oil stains on jet coated headers

[tailwind22]

Have a set of jet hot (polished finish) coated headers. Have some burnt oil stains from an oil leak that I am fixing and was wondering if there was anyway to remove the oil stains while preserving the jet hot finish?

[chrismorse]

I'd give the manufacturer a call. Is the coating Jet Hot, or another coating service?
chris

[tailwind22]

Thanks, I did actually think of contacting Jet Hot and they offered up using mild detergent and aluminum polish to tackle it. I had already tried a citrus spray and the burnt oil is pretty tough stuff.

[DanielDudley]

Yes, why take their advice. You did try something else.

[KTL]

I had burnt oil on my "stinger" merge pipe I purchased used. The stuff would not come off the Jet Hot coating with any common cleaners like simple green, purple power, citrus, brake cleaner, carb cleaner, mineral spirits, adhesive remover (typical strong solvent 3M stuff rebranded as Eastwood PRE), and whatever else I had on hand in my home garage. It was baked on there really good. So instead of continuing to try various other cleaners, I resorted to abrasive removal with my drill. I believe it was a red 3M aluminum oxide scotchbrite wheel or a loose (not all that stiff) wire wheel.

The coating is very hard and the abrasives did not cut through it very much at all. It left a brushed finish on the coating. However, i've yet to use the stinger pipe and subject it to heat and dirt/oil. So I can't say how the abraded finish wears compared to the undisturbed finish.

[Joe Bob]

If Jet Hot's advice or help doesn't work out....a hand torch might burn off the stains.

[964TargaC2]

I used oven cleaner on a stainless steel muffler, worked great

[Bill Douglas]

I haven't heard of Jet Hot finishes before. Looks like awesome stuff.

If you can't remove the stains could you do a touch up with Jet Hot paint.

[tailwind22]

So thought I would circle back and report on what worked and didn't work. I started with Jet Hot's recommendation of mild detergent and aluminum polish. Did not cut through the baked on oil. My solution was a combination of suggestions from members. First, burnt off the worst of the baked oil with a blow torch. The took steel wool and removed the oil, finishing with 000 fine. Then took Eagle One metal polish to it and buffed. Just like brand new. As one suggested the Jet Coating is tough stuff.

[chrismorse]

IIRC, JetHot is a baked ceramic coating, not a paint application.
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