The Yamaha Road Star Warrior Forum

first sand the parts until the white is gone ,with say 600 grit paper wet would be best ,then go to 1200 paper grit, then polish with a good polisher not a little dremil tool it will take rouge and several types of colors or grits to get a real nice shine on the aluminum parts that have that problem you described ,but with a little work it will be better then before and use some billet polish to keep it up.  before you know it you will be sanding and polishing more parts on the bike .most all of the warrior is aluminum so polish away . btk572

 Take the parts off and send them to Cadfather.  He knows how to get the parts looking right.  Has to, since he lives in GA.   LOL

I feel your pain man...

Here in PR rust is a mayor concern... I think that all that CO2 from the global warming is also accelerating the rust process.

I could never let the bike go more than a couple of weeks without a wash and polish or something will blow up!

Which reminds me... it's about that time again...

mine runs weekly even on rainy days, to me, just only seeing the bike in my garage the blood pressure raises and everything is left behind, I need to ride it right away to lower the pressure... that is for real...

This won't help now but maybe for the future. I put a light film of WD-40 on the bike about every

week or two. When I put her away for the winter I put a heavier coat on.

Thanks for the ideas. I was hoping for a simple solution but it seems I will have to polish the pieces. At least thy will all look good when I'm done! And by the way I am just as anal about maintanence as anyone, I was deployed and unable to check on her. I washed waxed and put WD-40 on bolts before I left it just didn't fully protect her for as long as I was gone.

 Just a quick question to help those of us who may be able to stop this before it happens. Do you have the stock grips and foot controls or aftermarket? I have noticed some rust on the hardware on my Supreme Legends and took the hardware out, sanded off the rust the best I could and sprayed the heads of them with an enamel to keep it from happening again. 

brtn15:

 Just a quick question to help those of us who may be able to stop this before it happens. Do you have the stock grips and foot controls or aftermarket? I have noticed some rust on the hardware on my Supreme Legends and took the hardware out, sanded off the rust the best I could and sprayed the heads of them with an enamel to keep it from happening again. 

They are stock

Daniel,

Please check your PM's, I can help.

CAD

 I use ACF-50 Great stuff for preventing corrosion,

 http://www.acf-50.co.uk/motorcycle.htm

jammo:

 I use ACF-50 Great stuff for preventing corrosion,

 http://www.acf-50.co.uk/motorcycle.htm

 

Seems like good stuff, anyone know if they sell it here in the states?

I`m Not sure about a distributor in the U.S but here are there contact details.

Adams Aviation Supply Company Ltd
Hunter House
Biggin Hill Airport
Biggin Hill
Kent
TN16 3BN
U.K.

Tel: +44 (0)1959-579850
Fax: +44 (0)1959 576660

email: mail@acf-50.co.uk

I decided to polish all the controls and use naval jelly to remove rust. I purchased some engine enamal gloss black and ceramic-chrome to paint all the bolts before I put them back on. The bad thing is with work being hectic it will take me a few weeks to get it done.

corrosion-x is a good product you can use too.