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Unfortunately when I put my bike up for the winter I ended up with some serious pitting. It’s a 2018 YZ450F with about 7 hours so needless to say I’m a little upset. I’ve used aluminum mag cleaner all year to remove black marks and maybe I didn’t clean it off enough before storing? That’s my only theory. Anyone have any tips on cleaning up pit marks WITHOUT polishing the swingarm ?
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Scotch Brite pad and WD40. Mag cleaner will pit the arm if not cleaned off 100%.
Paw Paw
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Paw Paw 271 wrote:Scotch Brite pad and WD40. Mag cleaner will pit the arm if not cleaned off 100%.
Paw Paw
Thanks Paw Paw. Just normal geeen one?
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If it were me id take the swingarm off and sand it down on a bench grinder and then scotch brite it. Ive never had mag cleaner do that
