How to Remove Rust from a Drive Shaft

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. When we got our drive shaft from the drive shaft shop, we asked them to leave it out for us, we have a little place pick up parts from them after hours, and they left out per our instructions and it got rained on. So this surface here that Mark is cleaning the rust off of is the, that yolk goes in to the transmission and it has to be absolutely clean or it's going to wipe out that seal at the back of the tranny. If we just harpoon that in the back of the transmission we'd have seal problems for sure. We took the original Ford drive shaft, marked it up, measured it, sent it to the drive shaft guys, and they built us a brand new drive shaft that's exactly the right length for us. They're a great drive shaft shop; we've used them for years. We just need to get this all cleaned up so there's no problems."