Can't get old fuel filter out of my Rodeo

[jesselv]

Can't budge the rubber line off the old fuel filter leading back to the tank on my 2001 Rodeo. It's not helping that I can't get the clamp far enough back on the hose, it's possible I'm not clearing the end of the filter. Maybe there's a special tool for this that I don't now about? Even so it seems the line itself is stuck to the old filter. Any secrets I don't know about besides cutting the line and somehow replacing it.

[amigo-2k]

I know they are on there tight... I think I just put a rag over the hose and then clamp on with a pliers and twist it back and forth...

[jesselv]

No way in hell that fuel line is coming off. I've grabbed it with pliers while twisting the filter and tried prying it off with a screw driver and even the edge of a chisel all to no avail. That rubber has been shrink rapped around the filter outlet from exhaust heat.

[ontime1969]

I know its and old question but to help future peeps. I had this problem yesterday on my wife's truck. I went and purchased new rubber hoses and the good clamps and then I just cut the old ones off with utility knife after measuring them and cutting the new to the correct leangths.. No problems.