Sawblade wheels
 

I'd like to refurbish the sawblade wheels on my 90 Turbo. Any tips? What paint to use? Should I strip the wheels of the existing paint or just sand?

Thanks in advance.

The best coarse of action would be to remove the tires, and have them sandblasted and finally powercoated.

But if you don't feel like doing all that, I would just sand it and strip the existing paint off. Primer, paint, then clear coat.

As for paint, I would look into high temp primer, high temp paint, and high temp clear coat.

Hope this helps, good luck.

There is a very tough laquer type clear coat on them. I tried paint stripper on a wheel. LOTS & LOTS of work.

You could of had mine (the really nice set) for free........a month ago. The metal man hauled them away, as I was moving, and had no place to continue to store them.

I recommend leaving them alone until you can afford a nice set of wheels, even at $160 ea. (what I paid for mine), its worth NOT sittng for hours working on a set of wheels that I could not even give away.

Those wheels aren't really worth doing much to. What I did was buy several cans of gunmetal Duplicolor, made a circular shroud out of newspaper and masking tape for the tires, sanded and scuffed them and put 3 coats on each wheel. It looked perfectly fine and with the stock bumper it looked just like a Turbo-A.
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