hi-temp silver cylinder paint

[Matthew N. Olse]

I could not disagree more with this post. I have had nothing but great results from this H-D paint. I have found it to be very resistant to heat and gasoline. You must be mistaking this for something else.

I am not mistaking it for something else. I have never had good luck wih this paint, maybe we were applying it incorrectly. The last bike that we used this paint on was my dad's 48, and the cylinders are the worst part of the bike, I have to touch them up every riding season.

[panz4ever]

Buy a spray can of it from your Harley dealer.

K...need to keep this discussion please. Called my local dealer here in Santa Klaus county and they said they can only sell touch up cylinder paint and are not permitted to sell the stuff in spray paint cans. And since we also cannot get the paint that Matt recommends, what is another alternative/ best of worst case solution?

My machinist will be done honing my cylinders next week so I would like to be able to use the silver to paint them and the pump body.

God I hate these kommies here and all their global warming ****!

[Rooster]

Panz, your solution is to have someone ship you the paint from a State that still allows it. I'd be happy to do that for you, if possible.

[Paps]

It is possible. UPS it it as flamable. Costs are higher but he will get it. Paps

[T. Cotten]

Although aerosols aren't the best thing for the environment, the restrictions on rattlecans are most often an attempt to legislate against graffiti and "huffing".

Legislating better education would make too much sense.

Personally, I appreciate good graffiti, more than custom motorcycle paint jobs, anyway.

....Cotten

[panz4ever]

Got hold of my niece in Florida. Flying out week after next to drive her back to Kali. She called up the local HD and ordered some for me. Got them "Smugglers Blues"!

[rbenash]

I was able to use a can of the original HD hi temp silver. You know the brush on stuff that came in those little 1/4 pint cans. Enough to do both cylinders, the blocks and the pump body. If you can still find some. The fellow doing my rebuild work (Paul Friebus) was happy to use it. Says it holds up well and works better than the spray finishes and looks right.

It's getting hard to find though.

[maxglass]

Time to resurrect a dead subject. It was mentioned to use a -78 silver paint for a panhead cylinder, is this the same silver that I could use on a 38 EL oil pump, tappet block? If not what would the pint number be? And as a matter of info Adventure HD in Ohio has this paint in stock.
Max

[bmh]

While anything with a -78 would not be the same as what was originally used, it may be close enough. As far as I know they used the same silver paint for eveything on the motor. Panhead cylinders, oil pumps, and such. So as long as the collars and cuffs match, who is to say just how shiney or exactly what shade that paint should be. All anyone can say is it appears brighter than the cast aluminum in B&W photos.

[mark]

Just went down to the Harley shop to get some paint for the heads and cylinders for my sportster.what they had was hi-temp silver part#98606el.is this the right paint with a new part #. Has anyone used this paint on there motor.

Mark amca#8993