Hey guys, I have a Kyosho SC6 that needs some help. It was in good shape when I quit racing it a few years ago, but has been sitting in the shed and accumulated some surface rust on some small parts. The driveshafts, turnbuckles, some of the screws and bearings have some minor surface rust. I want to take this thing apart and make it like new again. What is the best way to clean surface rust off these parts? I don't want to spend a ton of money on new parts, but I will if I have to.

Thanks,

Something I've been doing, is to soak all the steel hardware in Diesel fuel for about an hour. Stir up the parts once in a while. Friend of mine bought a Used X-ray XB2C from eBay, it looked just like your SC6. Soaking won't remove all of the corrosion, but it definitely will clean it up quite a bit.

I am going to pickup a screw kit, some lundsford turnbuckles and an Avid bearing kit. That should take care of the small parts and speed things along. I also found this video and is what I plan to do if you are interested:

Naval jelly.....

I've seen that video. Ryan has a great channel. Lots of good info.

Screw kit would definitely save time, and the hassle. I just did it for that particular X-ray since it needed much more important things... Like bearings, outdrives, CVDs.. and a handful of plastic parts. Nothing from X-ray can be called cheap to buy, so.. yea. Lol.

Keep updating this thread. I'd love to get my hands on an SC6 since my only short course experience has been a stupid Slash.

Best product I have ever used for cleaning metal parts, do not place any rubber parts in there or they will dissolve! Rust will be gone in just a few hours, or leave dipped over night for really bad rust formations.
After you pull your hardware from the dip, be sure to spray them with some WD40 Dry Lube PTFE and your hardware will look like new with almost no effort into cleaning everything up!

Uuhh....naval jelly. Cheap, simple, effective.