95 Series Oil Filter Location

[Prado12 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Prado12]

Hi Tracker,

With my current setup, I does not require to event to jack up the car.
I just remove the oil at bottom of engine and change my oil filter from the front hoot.

[Esses Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Esses]

ur kidding right, Hop underneith car stick hand up gap near front arm and undo using an oil filter wrench. easiest oil filter ive ever had to take off and ive had a fair few cars.

Actually, after 27 different cars/4WD's I find the Prado's to be one of the fiddliest setups I've had, though I didn't know about that flap on the passenger side. Have to check that out. The absolute easiest I've had is a toss-up between the 307 Chev/SWB 'Cruiser (hanging vertically at the back of the block) & virtually any Ford 6 I've had. Believe it or not, the Mini Clubman is pretty easy to do too, plus every time you change the engine oil on a Mini, you're also doing a diff & gearbox oil-change.

[MalcomM Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MalcomM]

All this sounds a bit difficult.
Are you talking the petrol or diesel?

In the diesel I just use the Toyota oil filter socket on the end of a socket ratchet and undo it.
Sometimes I remove the air filter box so I can poke a wire down the oil filter drain hole but normally I just in and unscrew the filter.

Pulling bash plates and wheel arches... sounds like you don't have the 1KZ

[Esses Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Esses]

All this sounds a bit difficult.
Are you talking the petrol or diesel?

In the diesel I just use the Toyota oil filter socket on the end of a socket ratchet and undo it.
Sometimes I remove the air filter box so I can poke a wire down the oil filter drain hole but normally I just in and unscrew the filter.

Pulling bash plates and wheel arches... sounds like you don't have the 1KZ

Nup. Talking about the 3.4 Petrol V6.

[mrkrinkle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mrkrinkle]

Nope I have 5VZ-FE (petrol V6 3.4)

Thanks for all the feedback

Reckon I'll try the wheel arch option next time around with a socket style filter wrench if needed.

[MalcomM Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close MalcomM]

Nope I have 5VZ-FE (petrol V6 3.4)

Thanks for all the feedback

Reckon I'll try the wheel arch option next time around with a socket style filter wrench if needed.

Try the socket filter wrench for fit first.
I bought the correct Toyota part for my Toyota (diesel) filter and its a pretty sloppy fit. The depth of the socket isn't that great and its easy to have it slip off the filter whilst trying to undo the filter.
Still easier than other methods...

[mrkrinkle Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mrkrinkle]

Picked one up on ebay (ViViv Auto Tools - two way oil filter wrench)

Not sure if it'll fit yet but it looks about right ;-)

[Tracker Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Tracker]

Theres no need to take bash plates or anything off you dont need to even jack car up. Just use old style oil filter wrench hop underneith and stick hand up chuck the wrench on and loosen. After its loose just use hand to spin it off. This is the 3.4 petrol engine im talking about 10 seconds max.

[Auss15 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Auss15]

Thought I would post up the step by step pictorial of the ease of removing the oil filter from the 3.4ltr.

There she is!!


Exposing it...


Reaching in to grab that sucker..



Got him

[Auss15 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Auss15]

Out and ready for the new filter..




Took me all of 2.5 minutes including taking photos

[Esses Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Esses]

Out and ready for the new filter..




Took me all of 2.5 minutes including taking photos

I've been doing mine from underneath but that certainly looks a lot easier. I checked mine & it's the same, just that rubber flap.

[Esses Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Esses]

Did mine today. Took it off from underneath & spun the new one on from the side as above. Took all of 5 minutes total.