Toyota oil filters

Most dealers will give you "Case Price",

10 % off. Good Luck !

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Some of the aftermarket filters are very good - some are awful - to save a few bucks there must be good aftermarket filters out there. Wix is one possibility -

How much are the Toyota filters for your truck?

My dealer charges me less than $4 each for the Toyota filter to fit the

4.0L V6, and tosses plug gaskets in for free. I buy the filter one at a time, no case purchases.

Most any oil filter will do the job, AS LONG AS YOU CHANGE YOUR OIL AT THE RECOMMENDED INTERVALS! For more engine protection, buy filters with an anti-drainback valve built in. This ensures the filter stays filled with oil when you turn your engine off, rather than have all of it drain back into the crankcase. This ensures a much quicker supply of oil to the engine when you start it, which is when MOST engine wear occurrs.

I went and purchased a Fram oil filter for my Tundra V8. I started to change oil and noticed that the Fram was half the size of the Toyota OEM filter. I also noticed that the Fram was the same filter, PH 3614 that was on my old truck, 22RE 4 cyl. Went back to the parts store and checked all filters they had, none was like the OEM. Went to my dealer, $5.71 per filter. Went to Ebay today, Greentree Motors are selling them by the case for $29.00 plus $9 shipping. They even let me mix and match, I own a 96 Camry, a 95 4x4 and a

05 Tundra. After seeing the difference in filters, I'll never use nothing but OEM Toyota filters.

I used Toyota oil filters exclusively for twenty years. The engine lasted

225,000 hard miles. I remember I wasn't able to change the oil for over 10,000 miles once. Don't ride me about that cuz the reasons it happened are not important. I don't recommend doing it. Currently, I am using Fram oil filters because they are easier to get off than the OEM part. The OEM product is hard to grip and I have busted a lot of knuckles getting it off. However, I am a little apprehensive about using it. So far, knock on wood, no problems. It is a matter of convenience, not price that I use it. However, I will admit that due to the age of my truck, I have started using more aftermarket stuff as long as it is the same or better than original spec. Last year there was a thread in this group about oil filters. An oil filter test was conducted and here is the web page: There was another reference for oil filter testing which is no longer available to me. The most important reason for using the Toyota filter was that it had an anti-drainback valve which Fram did not.

Below is a quote from Roger Brown of 4Crawler.com: Its called an anti-drainback valve and helps to keep oil in the horizontally mounted filter when the engine is shut off. Why? So that when the engine is started again, the oil filter will already be full so that the oil pessure will build faster. Why is this important? Main reason is that the timing chain tensioner is operated by oil pressure, so low oil pressure = low timing chain tension, which is not a good thing.

My take on using Toyota parts is this. The items bought from the local parts store are usually of lower quality than Toyota OEM. Those parts are cheaper, but they don't last as long and I have to buy them more often, which kills the savings issue. I want that truck to work as close to the original product as possible. That is why I bought it in the first place; it had quality over anything else that I saw available at that time. Why would I want to replace the parts on it with inferior equipment? I have had a mechanics that always try to replaced my thermostat with an aftermarket part. Within six weeks it malfunctions, EVERYTIME! They just don't work on my truck. That is only one example. There are parts coming out these days by conscientious manufacturers who recognize Toyota parts must be in spec or they malfunction. Most of it is in driveline equipment though. I know some of you will say that the Fram filters work just fine and so far it has, but I am watching for signs of problems nevertheless.

They make a very inexpensive socket that fits your 3/8 ratchet. It fits the end of the oil filter. I think I paid $3 for mine, no more busted knuckles.

Rambler