removing stains on secondary drive cover

[Anonymous]

1981 gs850g
picture available upon request

there is a stain on my secondary drive cover. i'm not quite sure if it is a stain or if something spilled on it and ate away the outer layer. (looks like drips from the top down). is there a way to remove the stain or restore the outer layer? any suggestions would be welcome.

thx

[Anonymous]

metal polish and lots of elbow grease. Most any kind of polish will work, I hear mothers is good stuff, but you really have to rub the %$# out of it, and when you have no fingerprints left, your about half way there. In the end, all my stains came out, and my fingerprints grew back.

[Anonymous]

It is the clear-coat that is stained. Use a paint stripper (make sure its safe for aluminum). I did this to my cases and it took the clear coat right off and left the aluminum shiny. I wet sanded the cases (to polish off the corrosion where the clear-coat had failed) with 1000# emory paper and polished with Mother's. The cases looked very good. Initially, I did not remove the cases from the engine. I later had the iginition cover off and used a buffing wheel with a tripoli compound. I can't see much difference.

Just use the paint remover carefully and don't splatter it on any painted surface you don't want the paint removed from.