Your fuel line is under pressure. If you just take the filter off it will spray gas all over you. It's really easy to depressurize the line. Pull out the fuse (under the hood) for the fuel pump, mine was number 6 but the books told me differently, and crank up the car. Let it run until it dies. Then grad a handful of towels and get under the car and diconnect it and be ready for the gas to run down your arm as you try to stop it from running down your arm. Those little filters can hold a lot of gas. Switch them out and you're done. Have fun. I did mine about 3 weeks ago and my new filter had new clips so I just use a screwdriver to pull off the old ones. It was not that bad pulling the lines off.
