Driveline ??

[izzy jr]

I'm waiting for new brake lines for my 66 coupe so I decided to clean up and paint the rearend and other various stuff,

The question is, would it be safe for me to remove my driveline and sand off the rust and grit and paint it or would it cause a balance problem with the driveline?

 

[CraigMBA]

Don't powder coat it. Ask me how I know this.

 

[NasaGT]

Don't powder coat it. Ask me how I know this.

I'll bite - How do you know this?

 

[izzy jr]

I'll bite - How do you know this?

X2 I'll quess you did this and it didn't work so well.

But will painting it hurt anything?

 

[D.Hearne]

I recently bought a driveshaft on ebay that was from "Up North" (never do that again) and it had lots of rust scale. I removed all the scale and left the pitting. I had a driveshaft vibe before with the old driveshaft and still have some, but not near as bad as it was. I'd advise you to remove the rust and paint it if you want. That's what I did.

 

[izzy jr]

I recently bought a driveshaft on ebay that was from "Up North" (never do that again) and it had lots of rust scale. I removed all the scale and left the pitting. I had a driveshaft vibe before with the old driveshaft and still have some, but not near as bad as it was. I'd advise you to remove the rust and paint it if you want. That's what I did.

That's what I'm thinking of doing, rightnow it looks mostly just like surface rust nothing to bad or looks like it is pitting. Just wasn't sure if it hurt anything to paint it or not. I'll probably take it to a driveline shop and get it rebalanced and put in new u-joints while it's out.

 

[D.Hearne]

I got lucky with the 77 Comet, the driveshaft is the same length as the 79-2004 Stangs. That's what this one came from, I think it was an 02 shaft. 45.75" ctr to ctr of the joints.