OK, I found a place, picked out an AWESOME color, got all excited as I went to drop the valve cover off this morning...
Then I get there and the guy who does the work comes out, flips the cover over and says he can't do it because of a baffle thats riveted/welded? to the underside. He says that when they blast it with sand to prep the surface for the powder coat, sand will get under this baffle and get into my oil when its all put back together.
Now I KNOW some of you guys have powdercoated valve covers - how did you get it done? Is it possible to get that baffle out and back in? Looks like it is NOT meant to ever come out to me...
Thanks for any help - I am very frustrated.
Steve
Ask him why hes worried about the inside when hes to coat the outside! If he gives you problems let me know theres a place right off RT32 just outside Laurel thats really good.
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Hi, Terry
Well they have to sandblast the whole thing and even if they attempt to mask off the inner part there is still a good chance the sand could get in there. And no one would ever know until I heard a terrible scraping sound in my engine
So, better safe than sorry - I have actually solved the problem by getting my paint guys to do it. They're gonna use hi-temp Candy Blue and a few coats of hi-temp clear. That valve cover is in the boiler right now!
I guess I COULD have gotten a machine shop to drill out that baffle and then powdercoated it, but then I would have had to pay for all that extra work and they probably would have scratched it getting it back in...
PM me - I wanna talk to you about these decals.
Steve
Even if they media blast they can mask off the underside. They're only blasting the outer surface so there's no direct spray to the back side, only a little blow back from the air moving around. Masking should keep that to a bare minimum.
Another solution is to paint the cover. I did mine on my LN2 just this week and I used Duplicolor engine enamel. All I did was prep the cover with a brush wheel on my bench grinder to knock some of the build up off, then hand sanded it, cleaned it with some degreaser, maked off what I didn't want painted, and went to town. I let the cover sit over night and it turned out pretty decent for a couple hour's worth of work and only cost me $10 for the paint and cleaning solvent. I did the paint Monday night while I was working on my valve lash and by Wednesday night the engine heat had baked the paint hard as a rock.
Can you post some pix of the valve cover johnny
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CustomBlueCav wrote:OK, I found a place, picked out an AWESOME color, got all excited as I went to drop the valve cover off this morning...
Then I get there and the guy who does the work comes out, flips the cover over and says he can't do it because of a baffle thats riveted/welded? to the underside. He says that when they blast it with sand to prep the surface for the powder coat, sand will get under this baffle and get into my oil when its all put back together.
Now I KNOW some of you guys have powdercoated valve covers - how did you get it done? Is it possible to get that baffle out and back in? Looks like it is NOT meant to ever come out to me...
Thanks for any help - I am very frustrated.
Steve
that right there was how QBE's motor blew.....and dont say i dont know what im talking about i helped him put it @!#$in on
My car may run 18s, but I can do your taxes in 10 seconds flat.
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anyways... I didnt get mine sand blasted, a guy in my car club powder coated it for me and he just sanded the top normaly and it came out great. If they want your business they will block it off somehow. OR tell them to do it anyways and clean the @!#$ out of it when you get it home with dawn and hot water.
