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yaris9876 · 01-14-2013, 09:33 PM

generic I will have to beat the shit out of it with a wood dowel....what a waste of money..

CTScott · 01-14-2013, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by yaris9876

generic I will have to beat the shit out of it with a wood dowel....what a waste of money..

The OEM one has notches in the fingers that slip over the ridges and must grip better. When I took one off for the first time I spent about an hour whacking it with a deadblow hammer and a piece of oak. Each whack rotated it about half a mm.

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01-14-2013, 09:33 PM	#1
yaris9876 Drives: yaris hatch 07 640K original m Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: usa Posts: 285	generic I will have to beat the shit out of it with a wood dowel....what a waste of money..