I ended up using Duplicolor semi gloss black paint and turned out great. I took a small paintbrush and used vaseline on everything I wanted left to be chrome (took about 15 minutes per cover) and painted the whole thing black. Then I just rubbed the black paint off of all the chrome parts and came off very easily. To get the covers out be sure to unhook the spring as lessens the tension on the inboard bolts.
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