yeah dude those gasket/ring things, can be a beast when you first put them on. I found a secret with the Spectre, not sure about the others...the filter gastket/ring thing has a groove that the aluminum piece of the filter rests in. So to make it easy for me to change, I just removed the new gasket out of the new filter and fit the old one to it. Works just as well and slides right back on. Band clamp it down and viola, there it is...only took me about 20 minutes of wrestling to figure out that if I had done the removal, it would have taken....oh...30 seconds...
L8R
Rich
