I had mine changed back in '95. I attempted to do it myself, crawled under there w/a couple the my set of break line wrenches ad the filter. Quickly realized what had to be removed to get to it, and decided to call and see what it would cost to have someone change it for me. A local import only shop said they would do it for $85(and that included the oem filter), I said I would be in in the morning. It took the mech 4 hours to change it out, and he drenched himself in gasoline doing it. He had the same problem as you OOP's with them being over tightened. He said he fought with it trying not to strip them out, sprayed every type of penetrating oil, finally got the rear lose, and ended up having to cut the front line. With as bad as the rear fitting was torn up he had to cut that off as well, and make new ends and extensions. After he told me all of this I was ready for an ann argument due to the time it had taken and the price he quoted me, when I asked what the total cost was he said I quoted you $85(book rate labor and parts) and that is all he charged me. He said he chocked up the extra labor as a learning experience, to either never doing one again, or simply start by cutting the line and making extensions.

It is good to here they had them w/over 300k and were still clean, I have only clocked 60k since the the filter change, looks like I have many more years to come before it needs another change. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />