Tools and Equipment
Catch Pan, Shop rags, 2- long 3/8 drive extensions,
19mm Crowsfoot, long pattern 3/8" Ratchet
3/8" breaker Bar,14mm 'linewrench' Crowsfoot
17mm Socket, 10mm wrench or socket
3/8" drive impact is useful too.
Let your car sit with engine off for at least 1/2 hour
Be sure to vent the gas tank by removing the fuel tank gas cap
Safely support the car, no smoking or open flames.
This under car view is from the area of below the drivers floorboard
Use the 19mm crows foot on the long extension and the breaker bar to hold the base of the fuel filter still.
The filter mounting bracket will bend very easy, so you don't want the filter twisting around.
Now the 14mm Linewrench crowsfoot goes onto the fuel line fitting.
Remember the 'Incredible Hulk'?.... That's who tightened this line fitting at the factory!!
I use the 3/8 impact here to "bump" the fitting the first 6th of a turn.
Unscrew the fitting all the way letting the gas drizzle into the catch pan,then go upstairs.
Here again the3/8" impact can be used to remove the 17mm nut on the top of the filter.
If you cannot loosen the top filter fitting, the other option is to remove the fuel rail end cap
Get stuff out of the way, the throttle cable can move and the vacum lines out of the way
Now the bracket and filter are held on by one 10mm bolt, the lower part of the bracket is a tab/slot setup.
The filter and bracket will now come up and out in between the intake body and the master cylinder.
Then R&R the filter from the bracket out of the car.
When re-assembling the setup I find it a good idea to get the lower line fitting started a few turns before tightening
the bracket back onto the car Then attach the bracket and the upper line fitting..
If the replacement filter comes with copper crush washers, reuse the original ones.[aluminum]
The lower fitting is torqued as such; tighten until you feel a sharp rise in torque then tighten 1/6 of a turn more.
The upper fitting is tightened to a sharp rise in torque then about 1/4 of a turn more.
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Best of luck I hope this helps you
Hondadude
