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I'd always remove the LR wheel and the fender liner, it's easy to do and gives more clearance, as you'd see if you did it. Some remove the LR wheel and use a chunk of wood between the liner and frame to push the liner up out of the way. I like just removing it and not pressing/stressing plastic panels. Takes 5 minutes extra to do it right.
Then, the hose clamp that holds the filter down, i totally unscrew it and pull the clamp off, you can thread it back around the "pedestal" that holds the filter off the frame quite easily to resecure the new filter.
Then pull off the vent line, and unclip the front and rear plastic hose, you can then move the filter diagonally a little and unclip the "back" hose. Especially easy to do once the mod is done as the new updated hoses have a clip system that requires no special pliers to remove. The hoses that go to the pump assembly are free to pivot back and forth a little bit, you aren't stressing the connections at the pump when you do it that way. MB in no way intends the normal filter service to entail removing the rear seat and "end cap" as you call it; we call it either the pump access cover, or more casually as "the paint can lid".
Gilly
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