I am running out of stuff to do in the evenings and I am apparently stupid enough to even think about doing this.

Polishing tunnel on 07 IQ LX 600 and 06 FST Classic...

I know most guys use Mothers but what is the best approach other than rags. Will this stuff work with buffers or any thing else. I did the back bumper and the plate in front of the snow flap and that took like 1/2 an hour per sled. The whole tunnel would take days.

Any info would be appriciated...

FST

Don't waste your time with Mothers. Use Hoosiers or Alu-Buff. People will say there is no easy way but there is. These products are freakin easy. I use a terry cloth and rub entire sled tunnel down in less than 10 mins. Wait 15 then remove. Not shiney and clean-but mirror chrome polish and no sweat. I have jewlers rouge and proffessional polishers- tried it all-but this stuff works like no other. A common product to seal polished aluminum is Royal Purple.

put the polish on 0000 steel wool and do the whole tunnel with that first. it takes the glaze off and makes it go a lot faster. it should still take 2-3 hours to get a good reflection out of it.

Does anyone have any pics of polished tunnels? I wonder how they look? Also do you have to keep them polished or do they last after you put that royal purple sealer on it? Pics Would be great.
Thanks,
Sledandsnow

Here's some pics of mine. Took me about 1-2hrs and still could have spent a little more time on it. I used a Matco mini air buffer, worked GREAT! Terry cloths with a little flour worked the best for me taking the resido off. The polish I used was some industrial stuff from work called "SPEEDY". I think its around $25 a quart. To get the mirror shine you need to use an air buffer, otherwise by hand you will be doing it for hrs and hrs and might bleed to death. :beerchug:

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I wet sanded my tunnel first with 600 grit, then 1000 and then 2000. This takes all the rough stuff off first and then polish with mothers. I used to do it only with mothers and it would take me all day and still not look as good. I actually read that somewhere on hcs, so much easier :div20:

Less then an hour. I quick sanded down some scratches then went at it with a high speed polisher. Don't do it by hand. At least use one of those mothers polishing balls in a drill. I used an aircraft polish, worked great.

That looks SWEET. How often do you have to polish it to keep it looking that good? I think i might have to polish the dragon when I pick it up this week.

No idea how long it keeps since this is the first time I have done it. I put a coat of wax on it after, so hopefully that will help it last some.

some hand rubbed White Diamonds and a Foose Powerball worked good with my nasty tunnel from my 02 xc..

do it in sections..

about and hour maybe a bit longer.. but it really depends on how much time you want to spend..

there are some pix on my link in my signature

Once you get it looking good, you go over it ever other ride, and it only takes 1/2 an hour or so because it is just to take the water marks off more then anything.

DUPPYPOG

Bleeding to death? Good god, Who does that?

i found a product that works real good. metal armor. www.metalarmor.net. the first time on a dirty tunnel it took like 15-20 minutes and to touch it up u can do it in like 10 min . works better the more times use it. kinda spendy but worth it. i would reccomend getting the whole by hand polishing kit.

I say go for it. I do the cotton rags and Mothers method. You can polish the tunnel in "stages". Polish the whole tunnel, taking , say an hour. Then, on another day, go over the whole thing again. That's the way I do it, and that way, I don't have part of the tunnel super shiny, then give up and have the rest look more dull.

FIND A LOCAL SNAP ON DEALER AN ASK HIM FOR SOME ALUMINUM POLISH IT COMES IN A CAN THAT LOOKS LIKE AN OLD BAND AID CAN JUST SWIRL IT ON AND RUB IT OFF WE USE PLENT OF IT .ABOUT $17.OO, SAVE ALL YOU PINCH OFF IT IS GOOD TO USE AFTER A DAY OF RIDING . GOOD LUC