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Location: Savannah, GA, USA
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The Haynes manual shows how a Porsche special tool can be made to grab the grooved nut (as named in the Haynes Manual). When I removed mine I used a lesser known special Porsche tool, also known as a big pipe wrench. I placed a strip of scrap rubber around the nut to pad the teeth of the wrench jaws, tightened the jaws, applied force to the wrench handle, and that was it. It came off nicely. Very little marring of the nut surface. Strangely enough, you don't see many pipe wrenches in the Porsche garages? :-)
Another tool that might work is a strap type wrench, similar to a strap type oil filter wrench. I've seen these advertised on TV recently. I don't know if you can apply enough torque, but there would be less danger of marring the nuts.
Mike
Last edited by maf 914; 06-12-2002 at 10:14 AM..
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