Preserving a Spare Drive Shaft.

Luckily I have spare drive shafts for my Honda Civic 1999. I got these cheap from a car scrap yard dealer. Both shafts are in excellent condition except for the old cv joints. I keep these shafts so I can do a rapid replacement of a bad cv joint on my car.

Using a small flatblade screwdriver I lifted the tabs on each band and folded them back to allow removal from the boot. These bands are the re-usable type and I will keep them.

The boot simply slides away from the CV joint. The boot can either be cut off or be removed when the CV joint is taken off.

This part is messy since old grease flies all over. I used my hammer and whacked the inner ring of the cv joint until the joint popped off the shaft. Now the boot and inner boot strap can come off.

I took a rag and cleaned off the old grease from the shaft end. The snap ring remained on. I will replace this when I install the new CV joint.

Now I have a shaft that is ready for a new CV joint!