Steering coupler installation on steering column

Long long time ago... A well seasoned Chrysler service tech pointed out this coupling cover, describing as a "bottle cap" like crimp. "If you distort it only enough to get it off, like a bottle opener does, you can put it back on like the bottles cap".
Loosen only 3 tangs just enough to get under the cap. It will jump off and jump back on again even though its not a spring tempered material.
Without that tidbit of knowledge I might have went all the way around it, bending every tang outward, then struggled to install the new cap.
I've rebuilt 6 or 8 of these coupling since, reinstalled the original cap every time.