Who has successfully used the “bread method” for removing the pilot bearing?

As the title states… I’ve only ever heard one person say they hear a horror story about someone damaging their Ferrari trying the bread method, but most others who swear by it.
What’s the consensus on here, from those who have actually tried it?

 

No reason. Also asking “just out of curiosity “.

 

What are the pitfalls I can expect from the throw out bearing?

 

Ah, yes. I have a local connection with an F430 owner who has the Hill Engineering tool for the throw out bearing pins that he’s offered to lend me when the time comes. He’s the one who brought up using the bread method on his F430. He’s been doing it on his cars across multiple makes and models for years, and swears by it; that brought me to ask the question on here.

 

So you can warn people not to buy my car?

 

Agreed. I bought their tools when I did my timing belt job. I anticipate doing many more of those than clutch jobs in my life.
For the avoidance of doubt, I didn’t start this thread to establish the viability of “the bread method” vs a cheap, proven and readily available puller tool; it was merely an inquiry of pure curiosity, yet somehow, seems to have developed into a metric with which to measure one’s breadth of mechanical ability and competency?

 

And do our cars have a blind crack bore?

 

Good to know. Again, pullers are probably more efficient. I was just purely curious.