Polishing

The 22s that came w/ my dually are in horrible shape. The truck had defiantly seen some road time and sat for a long while outside. I have spent hours and hours working on these damn things and they still look ok at best. I need to know how to go about sanding these things. What grit should I start and end with? Wet/dry? Should I use a block or just paper? What polish after that? I want my semis to bling but I don

Post a pic then you'll get a more defintaive answer, if they aren't too bad you can start off with a 2000grit WET never use dry unless you like that curb rash look. After you get the sheen, move to a finer grit. I use a mild rubbing compound made by 3M followed by a Meguires High sheen polish with the buffer and they come out perfect every time I do them. With the holes, I sanded them by hand then used a buffing ball/FLITZ with same materials. Good luck, dont be scared with sand paper as long as you have lots of
BTW doing them by hand sucks, your arms are gonna hurt. In effect it is much more efficient to have them polished by a shop, probably get them done for 50-75 a wheel, its worth it!!!!!These are what mine look like now.

Once you get to the stage that they don't feel like dirt anymore and you're ready for a high polish, WENOL is freaking bad-ass. It's like solvent-filled toothpaste or something. It's the kind of stuff you wipe it on and rub it, it starts turning black, and the metal starts shining like a damn mirror.

I started using it years ago after some dipshit at a tire shop sprayed undiluted castrol super clean onto a Centerline billet wheel trying to find a leak in my tire. The wheel instantly turned white and nothing would polish it out. I rubbed the Wenol on there and it took that crap off instantly.

Richard

every ones got their way off polishing and its all about the same cause you end up with the same resualts shinny wheels and sore ass arms and fingers
so here's a little something to do after you get your wheels all polished up.
to help keep them shinny because once your done you dont want to do it agine next weekend
take a spray on glass cleaner like windex and wash your wheels it will help clean all the oils out of the aluinum that you've rubbed in . thus not atracting dirt as quickly

I use sprayaway glass cleaner and I use it after every time I wash my truck and I dry them off also

I have used regular mothers aluminum polish and a cloth, their power ball and aluminum polish, and still have some nasty spots. After 4 hours per wheel they should be blingin. Ill try the 2000 grit and go from there.

that power ball is a hunk of shit and polishing by hand will make a man out of ya

I use blue magic wheel polish... First I wash then I dry. Then I get a piece of a towel and go to town. After the wheel turns nice and black a don't buff it out, instead I wash the wheel again with dish soap and dry off. This will cut the time in half.

I agree, i think the power ball might be ok if the wheels were allready in good shape but it doesn't do shit for the rough stuff.

I agree with the 2000 grit to start with always wet and progress to a finer paper until you have removed all the defects, I have tried every polishing product on the market Mothers, Meguiers, Eagle One, custom mixes I have picked up at swap meets, Wenol you name it I have tried it and still have it on my shelf. In all my attempts there are two that worked best hands down the difference was black and white. The first you can pick up at your local truck stop and it is called Bushes polish with this polish you will have to do the least amount of work you wipe it on spread it around and wipe it back off it is that easy you will go through a few rags thought. The second comes direct from Alcoa you can but it on line this stuff will make you semi wheels look like chrome and they will shed water like a freshly buffed paint job the Alcoa polish will require a little more work than the Bushes but both will give awesome results. I was bored on night so I took the Bushes polish and sat down with a full unopened can of Pepsi and in about 10 minutes polished all the paint off of the can and it looked like chrome when I was done. Huge waste of time but looked cool none the less. I beleive both products can be bought for around $20.00 a bottle.

ive used zephyr for a while its ok..polishin still uscks