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Removing Drive Shaft for Differential Leak Repair

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Summary: Carefully remove the drive shaft from the differential yoke, accounting for the slip joint and sensitive u-joint on the other end of the drive shaft; learn how in this free auto-restoration video.

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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

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Removing Drive Shaft for Differential Leak Repair

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. He's going to be very careful removing the drive shaft from the differential yolk. The other end of the drive shaft is a slip joint that slides into the back of the transmission. It's a slip joint because as the rear axle goes up and down it needs to get longer and shorter so those splines slide in and out. A little bit of oil will drip out of the back of the transmission when you do that. The u-joint bearing caps don't have anything to hold them in place without the differential yolk holding them so Dan wraps tapes around it so he can set the drive shaft on the floor and not knock the bearing caps off. If you knock the caps off little needle bearings go all over the floor and you get to buy a new u-joint.

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