Ok, time for a lil information. If you didn't notice, you have to take out the battery, battery tray and water jug, battery support bracket and then finally you can access the fuel filter in a manner that doesn't require you to have midget hands to work with it. I took off the air intake pipe/hose/THING WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT just to have more ELBOW room. If you have really HUGE ELBOWS I recommend this and if you don't, well leave it on cause in hindsight it provides a nice place to actually rest your ELBOW while working!

Well what has happened now? It just so happens in my Dollar Store tool arsenal I do not have anything over a size 16MM to unscrew the BANJO BOLTS of the fuel filter with. Well at this point its 2 AM I believe and I'm just running on an energy pack that really doesn't exist - its a fictitious energy pack fueled by lots and lots of water and misc food bites heated up throughout this ordeal. 2 AM and am I going to stop? NOOPE. Whats open at 2 AM? WAL-MART !?!? Well, lets go see if they have 19mm wrenches in their tool section. Thank goodness my girlfriend left me her Nissan Sentra this weekend ! The trip to Wal-Mart ended up taking from 2 AM to 4 AM and somehow I managed to shop in the auto section for all that time and ended up with $100 of stuff including a metric wrench set that only came with one 19mm wrench for $9.99. Well you can surely bet it came with TWO 19mm wrenches when I was done, and was one shy of a 14mm wrench at checkout. Since I gave one back to another metric package left on the shelf I didn't feel too guilty at 4 AM. I needed TWO 19mm wrenches because you use ONE to hold the filter in place while turning the bolt with the other one in a SCISSOR style motion pulling your hands together to make the wrenches come together. You'll see a few of the other things I bought later.

Where are we now? We're at a BITCH ASS crap hole of a state because the GOT DAMN BANJO BOLTS (ding dicka ding dicka ding ding DONG boowwwwRAaaaiiiiirrrr ding ding bong bong - That was banjo sounds) will still not fucking budge even though I DID eat my wheaties as Mr Erik Gross says to do here: http://www.team3s.com/~egross/3S/Maint/All/FFilt/index.html at the best Fuel Filter replacement instructions I know of.

DO NOT TRY TO UNSCREW THE LARGE BOLT LOOKING END OF THE U SHAPED HIGH PRESSURE FUEL LINE BECAUSE IT DOES NOT MOVE ! ITS PART OF THE U SHAPED LINE ITSELF! DOH ! Unscrew the flare nut bolt that goes into the U shaped fuel line big bolt end. The U Shaped FUEL line end appears larger than the flare nut. Again, the flare nut turns and NOT the U shaped fuel line BIG BOLT END. The flare nut end comes from the main fuel line feed from the rear of the car.

MAJOR PISS OFF which caused me to start this thread: http://www.3si.org/forum/showthread.php?t=222843 - Major Fuel Filter Emergency - Cemented !
Anyway, at this point the got damn 19mm banjo bolt won't come loose from the top or bottom of the fuel filter. It literally at this point (after an hour or more of struggling after eating super steroid wheaties) feels as if the damn bolts are WELDED to the fuel filter. I have bent things up a bit too.

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