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Remove Rear Driveshaft

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What happens here

With the vehicle lifted, locate the rear driveshaft. The driveshaft in this video is heavily rusted. Use an impact wrench to remove the bolts connecting the driveshaft to the differential and transmission. Carefully lower and remove the driveshaft from the vehicle. Be aware that a needle bearing may come loose from the U-joint caps during removal.

Goal: Detach and remove the rear driveshaft

Tools and materials

  • Impact Wrench DeWalt
  • Penetrating Oil PB Blaster — Loosening rusty bolts

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i'm letting it soda locks first order of business get the drive shaft out although i feel like we could have driven you know like another 30 miles and it probably would have fallen out on its own god dang this is disgusting ew yeah it's not that pretty under here not at all wow blah blah blah it's yucky i am so glad i have texas trucks my duramax is a texas truck i even had that when i lived in pennsylvania which is kind of funny um i sought out texas trucks and now i am texas man are you ready to do stuff yes i'm ready okay cool let's pull this drive shaft out yeah you can tell this driveshaft has never ever ever been taken out before ever those bolts were not easy to get out but i got them uh this thing's gonna be wedged in there real nice my enthusiasm for working on this thing is going to be squashed very quickly but the bright side the more things we work on with this the less of this we deal with because the old rusty parts come off new stuff goes on commonly touched areas um the rust falls off so everything's fresh and disgusting right now wow did the needle bearings go everywhere um yes they did well one of them fell over i still don't think we'll yeah this won't go back in anyway because we're changing drive staff like so it doesn't matter gross but a tetanus shot now look a needle bearing

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