Driveshaft Finish

[BLACK MOON]

What is everyone doing to refinish their driveshafts and side shafts? Quanta Products does a great job but they are rather expensive. Many people just paint them or powder coat.

I appreciate your input.

 

[67HEAVEN]

What is everyone doing to refinish their driveshafts and side shafts? Quanta Products does a great job but they are rather expensive. Many people just paint them or powder coat.

I appreciate your input.

I painted mine with POR-15 and then top-coated it with Cast Blast, but I wouldn't claim this as the correct thing to do for judging purposes.

 

[vette]

To keep the bare steel finish alot of guys spray them with flat clear eng. enamel. it works great for all the bare steel parts. any parts store should have it with the spray bombs. if you want just black PPG DP 90 epoxy primer and a shot of clear looks good and holds up very well.

 

[IH2LOSE]

What is everyone doing to refinish their driveshafts and side shafts? Quanta Products does a great job but they are rather expensive. Many people just paint them or powder coat.

I appreciate your input.

If I understand correctly.Quanta turns the shafts on a lathe to remove the old surface to bring up a new shinny surface.(like a snake shedding its skin).I had treid every thing I could to try and duplicate the nautral finish of steel and had no luck.I chose to purchase new half shafts and a drive shaft,then I sprayed them with a satin clear to hopefully retain the NEW STEEL look.

Acually I did not try every thing.
I have soaked some of my steel parts in a can of carburator cleaner and theat has brought the tiny parts I can fit in the car back to a "like new finish" I wonder if there is something I could have soaked the shafts in to melt away the previous paint jobs on them and the grease?

Good luck

 

[BLACK MOON]

I'm going to check with my local driveshaft shop and see what they would charge? Quanta charges $160 plus shipping. Thats crazy expensive unless you want perfection.

Quanta sells a product called 'Pre-Lube 6'. Great stuff for treating bare metal. It lasts quite a long time.

 

[66427-450]

this is what "cast blast" looks like. (these are custom made; 3" shafts, Spicer HD U-joints, new flanges, all cryo'd). click on pic to enlarge

 

[BLACK MOON]

THey look nice. Have you seen the ones from Quanta? They look like a dark chrome but as I said its expensive.
Thanks

 

[Ol Blue]

I had the driveshafts de-rusted along with the frame wheels and suspension parts when I did a body-off on a 64 Vette. I had the driveshafts powdercoated with clear, but the clear had a yellow cast to it so I had them sandblast it off and go with black. Yeah, not original, but I wasn't wanting a show car. I stored the orignal engine and put a warmed over 350 in it.

Since then, I understand that the clear powdercoat is better, but I'd do a small piece to see how it turns out, or have them show you.
Ol Blue