60 Air Cleaner - Oil Cap Restoration

I just spent the weekend stripping down the breather assembly and Oil cap from my 1960 bird. I tried a few strippong techniques but eventually bought some fine wire brushes for my dremel and that seemed to get into all of the nooks and crannies. Anyway, my son talked me into taking the extra time into stripping it al down to bare metal. I would like to thank him as it really did make a dirfference as to how it came out. My next task will be to remove the valve covers and restore them.

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[RichTXN]

I just did this on my '64! It turned out terrific.

I used a chemical stripper on the valve covers, aircleaner, oil cap, coolant reservoir, radiator plate-cover and the stabilizer bars (which I did NOT try to remove). Then I sanded it down to bare metal and finished with heat-resistant filler primer and paint. Boy, what a difference!

I used to be ashamed to open up the hood but now it's my pride-and-joy.