Is there a trick to removing petcock screen filters?

[bgrubb7]

I really need to get the screen filters off in order to get the gunk out of all the passages. It looks like they are just pressed in. I can wobble it back and forth a bit, but can't get it move out. I'm a bit afraid to work it much harder, as I don't want to break these fragile buggers. Is there a trick? They are the vaccuum type from an '81 H

[CatatonicBug]

Just use a toothbrush from the outside, and carb cleaner from the inside, along with some compressed air. No need to remove them.

[fredintoon]

I really need to get the screen filters off in order to get the gunk out of all the passages. It looks like they are just pressed in. I can wobble it back and forth a bit, but can't get it move out. I'm a bit afraid to work it much harder, as I don't want to break these fragile buggers. Is there a trick? They are the vacuum type from an '81 H

Hi Grubb,
carefully pry them out with a little screwdriver. Stick 'em back in with epoxy. I'm surprised they won't just pull out. They have a nasty habit of falling out on their own to lay in the bottom of the tank. This is an asymptomatic failure until you switch to reserve only to find the reserve has all been used, you are stuck by the side of the road out of fuel and that you have been running on unfiltered gas since God knows when.