Cleaning inside of wheel

[Blackened300a]

Scotch bright pad and simple green or any wheel cleaner except the acid type will work well

^^^ This or I used a heavy truck degreaser^^^

Just have a hose handy to remove the simple green and wash the inside with car wash soap when completed.

[JBeezy]

I used a Scotch Brite pad and some Super Clean

[MERCULES]

Dawn dish soap is a surprisingly good degreaser useful for many cleanups and mild enough that it is always safe to try first on almost anything. Oh yeah and cheap.

[xopher]

My idea of chopping toilet brushes and chucking in my drill worked ok, but the bristles were really not firm enough to do what I could do with elbow grease and a green scrub pad. Also, the longer I left the handle, the more wobbly it got. I will continue my R&D with stiffer, shorter brushes. I did have to take a wire wheel to the center back of the wheel to clean off the rust from the rotors.

As for removing the wheel weights and adhesive, I used a dull paint scraper to get off most of the gunk, then quick squirts of Zippo fluid then more green scrub pad. At this point, the cleanest part of the inside of the wheel is the spots where the old wheel weights used to be.

Thanks all for the advice!

[RubberCtyRauder]

If you want to make them really nice , then get some wet/dry sandpaper in varying coarseness from like 320 grit up to 600 or 800 grit and wet sand them with rougher then finer grits and then use aluminum polish..it'll be a dirty process but they would shine up.

Might be able to try some auto polishing compound as well, it has grit in it to cut thru very oxidized paint so might work on inside of wheels, don't use it on the clearcoat side.