Well 240 nuts and 240 bolts later, I finally had the wheels apart. It was nice outside so I just decided to do them by hand and no air tools. Peaceful for the first two wheels, annoying through the last four. But I had them apart! Tearing down a set of multi piece for the first time is kinda fun.
Anywho, got them all apart and started to clean them to assess the damage. To make things easier I called an old girlfriend. She is so easy. I am in love with her.
After stripping the lips I went to town on the faces and barrels with some Simple Green. I only stripped one face with the aircraft stripper, and once I went to sandblast everything I realized I should have done them all because that face took like 1/4 of the time to get down to bare "white" metal. Today was the first 80 degree day we've had in over 6 months and my dumb butt decided it would be a good day to spend 3 hours blasting my wheels in a hot shop. I did 6 faces and 4 barrels and it would've taken me like 2 hours, but since it was so hot the blasting cabinet kept jamming and I had to wait for a bit. Ended up getting it all done shortly before they closed and brought the wheels back home. They are now ready to be sent out for powder on the faces and I get to tackle the daunting task of polishing the lips. Like I said before, they are rough and I'm going to have to spend a lot of time sanding out pits and rash. Hopefully the end result is worth it.
Here they are all cleaned up.
Tomorrow I go to pick up the hardware from the plater. They were finished today but I was still blasting the wheels when they closed up shop.