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Originally posted by Quicksilver
I'm trying to figure out what the problem with using a hammer is. I use a picklefork to get at the side of it and it comes off real easy. I realize that the dust cap is no longer in concours condition but jeez... This is just a dust cap and that is how you take them off!
(I am trying to understand how someone would think a special tool that drives 3 pointed pins into the cap is somehow better then the tried and true method. Except for the fact that it is more difficult, more expensive, and slower, I fail to see where it does a better job.)
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Excellent and insightful post. You are, of course, 100% correct - the hammer method is clearly the *right* way, and anyone who would consider anything else has no business working on a Porsche. The idiots who came up with the 3 pointy bolts screwed into the dust cap were those dumbass engineers at Porsche, who clearly don't have your mechanical prowess. WTF were they thinking? That pulling the dust cap off with a single, outward motion would avoid egging out the soft aluminum of the hub the way beating it back and forth with a hammer does? And really - who has time to put the special tool over the dust cap, tighten two screws and smack it with one blow from a slide hammer? It takes like 30 seconds! I don't have that kind of time - I mean, I need that dust cap off NOW! Not in half a minute!
Hopefully Porsche engineers will start calling DIY mechanics who frequent internet BBSes for advice in the future, as this is clearly the best source for technical information. You should email them your phone number so they can contact you directly in the future.
Thank you for setting me straight on this, I have seen the light of reason and deleted my previous post.