steel
None. Every engine has a drive shaft, which connects to the transmission, and ultimately causes the wheels to turn.
Remove the front drive shaft
A steel head and a wood shaft.
automobile propeller shaft material
Check your universal joints!
No. It will make it lighter because there is less material.
It could be steel, brass, stainless or other corrosion resistant material
That will depend entirely on the make and year of the vehicle. I just recently bought a complete CV drive shaft for a 1997 Taurus and it cost me $ 89,
Drive it down your local mine shaft.....
It works with gears on both ends of a shaft in stead of a chain. If you have two wheels and they both have gears just like a chain drive but replace the chain with a single shaft that also has gears on each end, you will understand how a shaft drive works.
First make drive shaft and yoke to insure tat they are replaced in the same location to maintain factory balance Remove small "U" bolts at yoke Pry drive shaft out of yoke Pull driveshaft off splined end
Rockets are made of a very light but 60 times stronger material than steel called Carbon Shaft...There are other materials also but all are made of Carbon elements and are known as Carbon metals. Now research is going on to make use of Glass fiber to make Spacecrafts.