Well, i'm half way through the process only to discover that the oil filter will not come dislodged from the cannister cap. I unscrewed the cap, easy enough with the right tools but the filter came out with the cap. Does it snap or screw out? It has the same model # as the one I ordered from Phil so I don't think the last change was done with a wrong filter. Should it just slide right off the spine that's in the cap? There is some play where the filter moves back and forth on the spine but won't pop off. Help! Please!

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