Sorry mate, I never answered about getting the filter out. I know now having just done mine! I guess you also know now. Anyway, I have a new connector to fit to the fuelrail on mine because it sometimes leaks. I got it from the FORD dealer and it was a tenner. If you get the pipe nice and hot with boiling water I am told that it will soften it up and you can remove the old one. Then fit the new connector(again, after warming up)You may want to cut about 10mm off the end of the pipe so that the new connector is fitted into pipe that has not been stretched.