do you have the manual? if not, you should be able to get the pdf of it easy nuff, by doing a google on it. but it is a pain to pop the clip open.
one side of clamp ring, at the base of filter/carb, has a square looking loop, and the other end of clamp ring has a plug like looking thing on it, the plug like looking end pops into the square looking loop. you have to use a small flat blade screw driver to push in, the plug like end low nuff to slip out of the square loop end. the clamp ring is hinged on the opposite side, and has a pin in hole slip in connection, once you get the plug part pushed in and slipped out of the loop, you can lift one side of clamp up and slip it out of the pin slip connection opposite side, and work the other half of clamp off. then the filter is removed.
one thing i found to make it a lil easier to remove the filter in the future was to get the angled shredstack from phatdad, it angles the filter upwards to give a lil better access to getting the filter off. i think DDM has the angled shredstack.
im not sure if you can follow what i just said, but if you can see the manual pic of it, i think it will become a lil more clear .
