• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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Painting Wheels

JeffCollinsart

JeffCollinsart

Husqvarna
C Class
I recently painted my TE511 wheels black. They turned out well so I thought I would pass on the process.
1. Clean and degrease wheels
2. Take off wheels and scuff with red scotch bright pad
3. Wipe down with mineral spirits
4.deflate tires and loosen nuts on rim lock and valve steam
5. Tape around base of spokes. Then tape up the spokes You only need to mask to where the spokes cross.
6.then tuck note cards between rim and tire to mask off tire
7.I put a pipe in the vise and put the tire on it to spin while I painted

PAINT AND PRIME
Use an etching primer, I used an automotive primer that was black. The paint I used was VHT wheel paint satin.
Now just follow the directions on primer and paint
 
Her are some pictures of the process. Sorry I can't get the bike picture to not show up up-side-down
 

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Great Job Jeff. I have black rims that need a tart up. This will work for mee too.
Cheers Mate.
 
Powder coating would be more durable, I just didn't want to spend the money. I'll see how these will hold up and maybe powder coat down the road.
 
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Sorry to say my paint failed. I rode 40 miles of single track and gravel roads in Easter Washington and they stared to chip. It was very rocky and dusty. When I got home and pressure washed the bike it started to flake off. After an hour+ of pressure washing all the paint was off. I think the failure was do to the expansion of the aluminum caused by temperature change. It may also be that they needed a rougher surface prep before priming, like sand blasting. I wanted to save others from wasting your time. I will be powder coating mine.
 
JeffCollinsart said:
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Sorry to say my paint failed. I rode 40 miles of single track and gravel roads in Easter Washington and they stared to chip. It was very rocky and dusty. When I got home and pressure washed the bike it started to flake off. After an hour+ of pressure washing all the paint was off. I think the failure was do to the expansion of the aluminum caused by temperature change. It may also be that they needed a rougher surface prep before priming, like sand blasting. I wanted to save others from wasting your time. I will be powder coating mine.
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If you are going through the trouble to break the wheels down the best way is to hard anodize them IMO. I have one set of wheels that the PO powder coated and they are better than paint but not as good as anodized.
 
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