I wouldn't bother cleaning it at the age of the car. I'd just get a fuel pump and swap it out following the how to. Just follow the how to for the returnless bump more or less. Ditch the screen disk at the bottom of the tank while you're in there. You're car has a return style pump so the connections are a little different. It should drop in w/o modification like people do for the returnless Focus SVT pump.

http://www.contour.org/mods/mods.php?s=howto&displayid=39


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