removing front hub dust cap -how?
 

trying to adjust front hubs and i can not get the dust cap off :mad:

any tips? what is the procedure? i tried pliers and still no budge.

Some put a hose clamp on it to get a place to start prying. There have been dozens of threads....



(sorry)

yea
best one i found is this one just now
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=30789&highlight=dust+cap+front+hu bs

i dont wanna use too much force cause all ive got is the wheel changing jack!!!!!!!! no lift or hydraulic jack or stands

another one
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/440610-trouble-prying-off-front-wheel-hub-covers.html?highlight=dust+cap

back to the garage i go

I tried everything, short of making a device that uses pusher studs (other have made this). Only thing that works was a small hammer and a little block of wood. Strike the edge and turn, repeat until it comes out evenly.

But, try the other methods first. This one has a tendency to scuff up the cap, but the cap itself is pretty robust.

I love this from one of your threads:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1095618288.jpg

The gentlest and best---> http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=183349&highlight=dust+c ap+removal+Ferch

thanks guys. i gave up. without a safe way to get the car up, i dont feel safe about banging or rocking or putting any leverage on it with just the spare tire jack holding it. ill have it adjusted when i get some oil lines replaced by a mechanic soon

i admit, i feel like half a man not being able to get a measly cap off the wheel.!!!!!!

i admit it, i cant do it. i call jon. he gets it off with voodoo, or something.

If you don't even have one cheap jackstand--better two cheap jackstands--you shouldn't be working on your car. There was an article in the New York Times the other day on one of the surprisingly large causes of automotive deaths that have nothing to do with driving being cars that kill people working on/under them.

The article was built around the recent death of a once-famous baseball player--can't remember his name, since I don't follow baseball, but I knew I'd heard it--who was working under his truck, which was running, when a piece of his clothing got wrapped around the revolving driveshaft and he was essentially crushed to death. Not that a jackstand would have helped him, but you're right to stop working on the car because you were nervous about its instability.

Do you have an old tire and wheel to drop it down on ? Thats what I use when in a pinch. In a truck I just use the spare. A Porsche wheel thats another story.

What does taking a dust cover off have to do with possibly being crushed *under* a car?

I agree in principle.....work under a car only if well and properly supported, but taking a dust cover off means I'm way off to the side.

Trust me on the earlier post.....easy peezy.

the only reason i used the jack was to remove the wheel..and, the bentley books says to "gently pry off the dust cap" which insinuated, or at least lead me to believe, i could "gently pry" it off

once i realized that it requires either force or jedi powers, i stopped

i aint no dummy

now can anyone tell me if im damaging the hub by driving it...when grabbing the wheel, i feel a "click". its not terrible but i feel it in my steering at higher speed...vibration, slight pull to the side etc...

its been this way for at least 4,000 miles i suspect. it will be another few hundred till i fix it

Well, it's no wonder that people get hurt working on their cars perched on old tires, bricks and stacks of two-by-fours. I've watched people work on front wheels all nicely yoga-positioned with their thighs and knees under the wheel, so maybe you, Wil, don't do that, but there are those that can remove a dust cover in a way that potentially will put them into a mobility scooter for the rest of their Porsche DIY days.

I had a friend lose a finger changing the snow tires on his Saab last winter using just the car's jack. He wasn't under it either.

Grabbing it how, at 12 and 6 or 9and 3? If you can feel movement at 12 and 6, don't put hundreds of miles on it until you know what the problem is. You could damage the spindle.

its only at 12 and 6 milt. what does this mean? its been like this 1 full season im sure, probably 3 or 4,000 miles

what have i done?

cats paw. very easy.

i dunno what cats paw is but i saw you at a loose wheel when you pulled at 12 oclock. did you figure it out? now im worried its a worn ball joint but im not sure how else to check that
edit:reference ball joints
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-911-technical-forum/432118-what-procedure-checking-my-ball-joints.html?highlight=12+front+hub

cats paw is a nail pulling tool with two claw ends.

the 12 o'clock play was not able to be fixed via bearing adjustment and turns out to have been worn spindles.