They tell you to changing the oil @ 500 miles and replace with syn.oil on the supercharge eng. Yes mine had the plain filter with the blk. markings. Filter looked generic.

 

WELCOME to the PITA club took me about 2 hours too, but then again why should they make it easy for us, perhaps the ford engineers which are about to be unemployed should spend some time at a Honda or Toyota plant to see how theirs are placed for easy removal....???

 

In the movie Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood's character hands a novice tool user a roll of duct tape, a can of WD-40 and a pair of Vise-Grips. He tells the youngster that any man worth his salt "can do half his household jobs with these three things."

 

words spoken by a wise man and a bamf

 

He forgot the bailing wire - Great movie, though. Vintage Eastwood.