Yup, he even states the plastic filters are well made and should last a lifetime. I go by his recommendations.

I ABSOLUTELY agree. That man knows what he's talking about, and I take every last word of his advice

@@PianoUniversewhat plastic filter. The filter cartridge housing?

Yes that is the one.@@AntilleanConfederation

@@PianoUniverse what makes no sense to me is that Lexus has that same part metal. While Toyota uses plastic. That’s some BS. They could just use metal for all of the models

Appreciate this post and your insight!👍🏼🤙🏼

The 2gr-fks is literally a tuners dream. I found that the engine is already maxed out on 87 fuel. it’s very quick to ping when advancing timing. I use 93 octane and w tuning alone was able to get almost 40 peak hp gain. plenty more available w e85. probably another 20hp. These engines are like a 6 cylinder k series is what they remind me of. From the factory not much but couple mods and you’re rocking and rolling. Has everything you need for some good performance.

i prefer the 1gr-fe but to each their own. im old school

Lol they have there share of problems.

Awesome post

I'm not one to criticize but I was thinking the same thing.

Ok mr master technician its not like he’s doing it at the dealership where the have the filter cups provided along with a supply of crush washers

@@PROJECTIRONWOLF1 .85 for a crush washer

@@Slickand515 ok? You think hes going to drive to a Toyota dealership to get those crush washers he's probably only using what the customer supplied

I don't doubt he's a decent tech but.... there''s so so much wrong in this vid (Oh, and I could care less about the crush washers)

😂

Oh you for sure have already had a tech far worse than this work on your truck.

I was saying the same thing while watching I know almost nothing and I have the proper tool. lol

Listen man you are no mechanic clearly if you buy new crush washers all the time you aren’t a mechanic you are a wannabe just remember older cars didn’t even use crush washers lol this guy knows what he’s doing if you’re a mechanic it’s pretty obvious everyone has different techniques but if it gets the job done and doesn’t damage anything it’s the right way

He ran to Harbor Freight to get some basic tools. Don’t expect much SST

@@MichiganMitch23 .... wow.... I thought the mechanic was an idiot, but you actually took first place. Good job

@@Icarusrider I’ve done my own oil change for my small fleet of Toyotas and these washers are good for multiple oil changes. In fact, I rarely change the washer.

yep soon as he broke out the Channel locks i'm done lol then the pry bar chisel lolololol , magin the next guy with his correct cup socket trying to slide it on that mangled mess cursing the last hack that worked on it lol. , been working on Toyota axles for 30 years and never used a new crush washer and never had a leak so the jury is still out on that one ,

I was also cringing when he, as a Toyota master tech, doesn't have the oil filter wrench specific to this truck, and many other Toyota models in his box.. Also the transfer case and front diff calls for a lighter oil than 75W90.. He mentioned he tried royal purple in a manual transmission and it would't shift properly, that being most manuals call for a GL4 rating fliud, and the Tacoma actually requires a GL3, but is almost impossible to get except at the Toyota dealer for like $100/ bottle..

better slip joint pliers instead of 48 inch pipe wrench.

@@shredfest30 He has the tool, just let a buddy borrow it. You should read before you reply.

spark plug change on 3.4 5VZ taco costs 200$ to 300$ ... so yes 30k interval is a massive cost expenditure

Not tomentionheput the wrong fluid in the transfer case. Fine for warm weather use only, but will have shifting issues in the cold

@@shawnengstrom3906 He put a great alternative oil in the transfer compared to that over priced Toyota transfer case oil that costs $100 for a quart. It doesnt get better than Amsoil severe gear 75w-90 for diffs and transfer case for the automatic 3rd gen. car care nut confirmed this himself.

Totally agree. 30k to replace iridium spark plugs is just crazy. Might as well put new tires on it every 10k as well lol..

@@efil4kizumif you do it your self can’t be more than 100 for spark plugs it’s fine to go up to the recommended interval as long as you are using OEM oil I do 5k on synthetic oil Changes

He still has the Camaro 👍🏼👍🏼

lol..........Yah o.k.

I’m anal also after I do anything with oil or lube I hit it with brake clean. Just so I know if there is any leaks

Ain’t that the truth!

So Jason hasn’t worked for Toyota for many years… he also owns a 1st Gen Tacoma which doesn’t require that type of oil filter, removal tool. Jason also rarely does oil changes and mainly does suspension and lifts for off-roading vehicles. He does do fluid changes on diffs, trans, and TC’s. The oil change was more of a favor than anything, as the point of the video was just to get his overall feedback on how to help maintain and keep a third GEN Tacoma running properly for a longer period. He let me know ahead of time that he didn’t have a tool before we even started the oil change. It wasn’t that big of a deal to me as I plan to replace the plastic one with a metal one the next time I do an oil change.. also, he did a pretty good job at removing it without the tool. No damage was caused to the oil filter housing and he got it off.

@@westcoasttaco Thanks for the explanation, now you know what to buy him for christmas. As for the plastic filter housing, I have 2 tundras, one with 260k and both have the OEM plastic one, with no issues. They will last for ever if you don't torque. The drain plug bolt is another story, they strip out easy if you tighten over 30 in LBS. Looking forward to more videos.

@@bobd8553fumoto oil drain. Put it in once and forget about it.

So I did 4 drain and refills on the ATF including a filter change on the last one with Jason about two months ago when I was having the torque converter shudder issue. That’s the only reason why we didn’t do a drain and fill on the tranny that day. I’ll do another video of that in a few weeks.. honestly I’m really glad I did my spark plugs at 30k you’ll see in Part II that I had a loose spark plug that created blow by on the ignition coil.. I also posted a couple threads in the description of that video of people that waited til 60k for their plugs and how much worse the blow-by got.. also, I bought this truck used and I really wanted to get all of the fluids changed and plugs done just so I can have a peace of mind of knowing that everything was in good condition and be able to start a tracking period from this point on. I’ve always been of the mindset I’d rather spend more money now on fluid changes and other maintenance items to keep things running better and longer, instead of stretching out the intervals and potentially have issues.. spending a little extra on more maintenance sounds much better to me than spending more money on a brand new truck before I want to buy one.. also, I plan to never get rid of this truck, so I’ll probably go overboard on maintenance items etc. just to be safe. the car nut guy is great. I’ve seen most of his videos. very informative… at the end of day It seems like every mechanic has their own 2 cents on ways of going about maintenance. Some are similar and some are drastically different.. at the end of the day I feel like as long as you are conducting regular services and keeping up on everything that 9 times out of 10 you’ll be fine.🤙🏼

@@westcoasttaco totally agree with you on where you're coming from and your mindset which is totally fine. I too myself bought a used 2019 tundra trd pro at 24k miles. I just hit 30k and changed out all the fulid. I have a peace of mine now that I changed everything from the truck. Now you kinda convice me to change out the sparks lol. I was debating wheater or not to change it. But I'll do it this weeknd. Been following you for a while now. Good content. Keep up the good work! 👌

Wow! Fantastic testimony on your experience with Toyota.. your story is why so many people continue to buy the Toyota name. Maintenance and care are crucial to getting these amazing amount of years and miles from these vehicles.👍🏼

@@westcoasttaco I agree. I’m an absolute maintenance freak.

Hello, which fluid for transfer case?? Thanks

@@ronsmith8434 I take my Tacoma to our local dealership for all of my maintenance needs. The manufacturer of your vehicle knows exactly what is needed to make sure your vehicle has the correct fluids. I know in some cases there’s only a certain type of antifreeze that is allowed in a certain Toyota engines. In the past, I usually did all of the maintenance myself but now with all of the new vehicles and computers I simply take it to Toyota. If they screw up and put something into my power train and it fails, that’s on them and they will have to eat their mistakes. My wife’s Outback is different and I take it to our Subaru mechanic who Only works on Subaru exclusively and he’s cheaper than our Subaru dealership. Our local Subaru dealership has a horrible reputation for doing shoddy work. 35-40% of the vehicles in our area are Subaru’s and everyone we know who owns a Subaru takes their Subie’s to our Subaru mechanic. And everyone who we know that owns Toyota’s take their Toyota’s to the dealership. Our local Toyota dealership knows that people are willing to buy their Toyota’s at dealerships a few hours away, so they try to do the best job they can to build a good customer base here locally. I drove to Yakima (almost 3 hours 1 way from our local dealership because the sales office wasn’t willing to work with us. When I bought my current Tacoma, it was a leftover 23. The dealership had it on their lot for 8 months before I bought it. No one wanted a 6’ bed, but I need the 6’ bed. Our local Toyota dealer puts a $1,999 additional dealership markup on every new vehicle they sell and I refuse to pay it. But since I bought my truck on 2/29/24, they had taken off the $2K markup and threw in a Tri-Fold tonneau cover, running boards, an 8 year 75K mile bumper to bumper extended warranty and the “care” pkg that included ceramic wax, leather cleaner and conditioning kit, as well as free lifetime oil changes and tire rotation. Toyota recommends that the oil changes are every 10K miles and that’s 5K miles to much, so I still have to pay for every other oil / filter changes. My dealership uses Mobile 1 full synthetic oil, so that’s what I use when I’m paying for the change. I buy the oil, filter and crush washer and they charge me $55 to change my oil and filter. The MSRP (window sticker) on my 23 TRD was $51,848. I bought it for $48K. Back when I had that 78 Corolla that I put almost 1/2 a million miles on, we didn’t have synthetic oil back then so I changed the oil and filter every 2,500-3K miles. Every 30K miles I changed the transmission and rear differential. I originally bought it for my college car but after obtaining my PhD I decided to see how many miles I could get out of it. I Highly recommend that you install a cold air intake and have the OTT installed in your Taco. The OTT gives you 25 more horsepower and 25 more lb ft of torque at 2,300 RPM, instead of 3,800 RPM. It also causes you to get 1-3 mpg Better fuel economy and your transmission STOPS “hunting” for the right gear. Your transmission becomes buttery smooth. My Tacoma currently has 318 horsepower and 295 lb ft of torque. At 85mph, I’m getting 22 mpg and at 75mph I’m getting almost 24mpg. Combination driving I’m now getting 19-20mpg. My Tacoma not only looks great but also hauls ass and sounds great too. My Tacoma came with the TRD Performance exhaust system, but I’ll be installing an AWE dual exhaust system in the near future. It’s a true dual exhaust from the manifolds back. Baby your Tacoma and keep up on all of your maintenance, including changing your oil Every 5K miles and I’m confident that you’ll get 300K miles out of your Tacoma.

How is it rounded?! Lol

You're a clown. If he rounded anything off, he'd replace it. Keep trying to be important, on KZfaq.

I’ve seen several people do that! Definitely never hurts to go the extra mile 👍🏼.

All you need to do is take the ASE banks of test. And you become a Master Certified Technician 😅😅😅

Good work man 👍🏼🤙🏼

Thank you! Congrats on picking up the new taco! Glad the video was of help to you! Thanks for the info on the Penzoil platinum and stay tuned for part two!

🤯😱 glad you double checked it! That rear diff could have had some serious issues if you would have waited until the recommended fluid interval change.

I agree completely although I was surprised how dirty the fluid in the front axle looked. Op said in a different comment that since he bought it new he just wanted to start with a clean slate and peace of mind so no harm no foul I guess

Glad it was helpful!🤙🏼

Correct… stay tuned for part two.. really glad I did mine at 30 K and didn’t wait till 60 K.. could’ve been some big issues! 🤙🏼

Thanks man! Trying to keep you guys in the loop and hopefully help with some common questions we have a hard time finding straight forward answers about.🤙🏼

@@westcoasttaco 🔥hell yeah

I agree with the whole statement. Please turn WAY DOWN the musical interludes

@@merlinzipp I’ll definitely mess with the music volume to see what I can do to make it less loud. Were you using headphones? Just trying to pin down where the issue is mainly happening. When I was playing it through a regular speaker everything seemed balanced🤔.. Or maybe my hearing is jacked 🤣?? but thanks for the feedback, much appreciated 🤙🏼!

@@westcoasttaco I was on my Mac Book Pro speakers, not listening on head phones. The music was about twice as loud as your speech, to my estimation. Keep creating the good Taco content.

Yea, Harbor Freight specials

Thanks Steve and will do👍🏼

Where can I find this mechanic?I'm in Cincinnati

@@carlwray4627 Cincinnati, Ohio? Drive South West for about 2300 miles to San Diego, Ca. and you will eventually run into him.😂

What’s different with 2023 v6 that you saying they having problems?

have not heard about these engine failures. i’d be curious to learn more about them as well.

Lol! Yeah it was sub 70s that day… pretty chilly for a Southern California guys🤣. We have been in our May gray season.. so the weather definitely hasn’t been our typical Norm.. but we roll with the punches down here😂!

I've had my Tundra for over 16 years now. haven't had ONE issue with the plastic housing. The metal housing is not trouble free, tends to have more issues coming off than the plastic housing.

@@nickfoote8346Formulas change slightly constantly,it’s still the best.

My pleasure and congratulations on the Taco👍🏼🤙🏼!

The Car Care Nut recommends the 1st oil change at 500 miles or 1000 miles then 2000 miles only thereafter 5000 miles. Nissan chief engineer on Automotive Press channel recommends any oil even non-synthetic change every 3000 miles.

Car Care Nut is a real Toyota Master Tech 👍🙏

Thank you!

Thank you! Jason is a great guy and beyond knowledgeable.. I would probably do like a “time” type of a service interval.. I’m kind of the same way with my truck.. it’ll be a year in October since I bought it.. and I’ve only put about 3000 miles on it so far.. I really wanted to do these fluid changes now instead of later just because I didn’t know how well the last person who had it took care of it.. now that everything has been done. I’ll probably have Jason change my oil twice a year or every six months.. and have him do a transmission fluid drain and fill every other year.. all of the other fluids I’ll probably do every 15K or 2-3 years if I keep up this type of mileage pace👍🏼

use oem plugs, always and check the gaps

As a Toyota person I vote Toyota. With that said I haven't seen the new Nissan and no nothing about it

Quaker state is actually awesome oil per some recorded tests and costs less than most...

Also no torque wrench on the plugs. Nope.

thats nothing until you see big ass channel lock, hammer and chisel on a plastic oil filter housing....

I would reach out to him. It’s been a while and I don’t remember what I paid?? It was definitely way less than what a dealership would have charged.🤙🏼

@@westcoasttaco Copy that. Will do.

Won’t be able to keep this pace up forever, but I owed you guys some new content.. I didn’t post a whole lot last month. So making up for it now🤙🏼

Thanks man🤣🤣! I detail it once a week.. between a power washer and living in so cal where the weather is really nice 95% of the time… it’s honestly not too hard to keep it up.. also a good wax every 4-6 months helps a lot too🤙🏼

I felt the same way. My poor gen three is missing a mud flap , be through hell and back. I should probably do a diff change after seeing your front one. Mobil one user here, but I never change the crush washer. Good info in this video thanks. I’m coming up on 30k

Right? Using channel locks is a terrible way to get the housing off. Keep doing that year after year and the thing will be so ripped apart. He also recommended to purchase a metal one. I wrote a separate. comment about that, but I would never recommend that. They have built in bypass valves with a calibrated spring. The aftermarket ones do not. You can either not have bypass when needed (starving the engine) or bypass way too early causing contaminates to flow into the engine when not needed! Many of the aftermarket ones sell because people just see OHHHH METALLL.

He didn’t say to replace it with any metal one, but the metal one from Toyota.

@@OldelCpt 35:30 min. No he didn't he said "a metal one". Since when does Toyota make metal ones as an optional replacement? I stand by my original comment.

Everything in the guys garage is from harbor freight and you want him to have the correct filter tool? He doesn’t even know that the 3rd gen takes straight 70 gear oil in transfer case. There’s been numerous complaints that anything but 70 weight can cause transfer case shifting issues in cold weather.

I believe that changed in 2020 unfortunately..

We used the 75W-145 for the rear differential and 75W-90 for the front differential and transfer case. We just used the amsoil bags to put all the fluids in.

I’ll be taking care of Jason for sure 👍🏼👍🏼!

Or at least buy him a 100 Pack of drain plug gaskets! 😉

@@gratefuldale117 🤣

Please

The easiest way is to suck it from the top of master cylinder with a turkey baster or similar and refill. You won't get it all in one shot, but it keeps you from needing to bleed the brakes.

My pleasure 🤙🏼

His theory was that 75W140 has double the viscosity at 100 C than 75W90… however I’ve heard it argued that both work fine..

Glad to hear it 👍🏼!

For the rear.. yep👍🏼. For the front… yikes 😬!

@@westcoasttaco yeah, that’s really strange. My front is always “like new” but the rear used to be always really dark every time I drained. Once I switched to synthetic the rear diff started draining “like new” after about 5 annual changes. I actually do annual drain and fills - transmission, diffs and transfer case plus driveshaft greasing (2007 4R)

@@EmpTy-kf2rq that’s definitely good practice👍🏼 since I bought my truck used and even though it only had 23,000 miles I really wanted to get all the fluids changed out just so I can make sure that everything was fresh and see if there were any issues. Definitely glad I did it especially for that front diff..👍🏼

@West Coast Taco Didn't do my first exchanges until ~87K on my 2005-06 Tundra DC. Rear dif came out like almost new, front nasty, TC had sign of moisture intrusion but good and tranny plenty dark. Did 2 full proper drain fills and am doing another very full circuit exchange soon(104K coming up) then putting on my SkidRow CAT GUARDS kit. Did COMPLETE Rad Drain/Flush/Refill at 97K. Original Rad is like new, just replaced cap Rebuilt entire Front End at very beginning of Pandemo as it sucked from factory. Timing Belt kit is most important thing coming by 150K. Runs, shifts, stops like a dream. She's going to be here running when I'm gone.

These trucks don’t have timing belts. They have timing chains.

Not just that, he rounded it off. Slammed on the wrench it slipped off at an angle.

Jason is a really good and honest dude.. no two ways about it. The only way to really clean the magnets is by dropping the pan.. it’s not necessary every time, but maybe every 30-50k.. some people call a drain a “pan drop” because you are just changing the fluid in the pan. Jason is definitely more on the conservative side when it comes maintenance.. but my hope is to keep this truck running forever and someday pass it down to my son.

He hasn’t worked for Toyota for quite some time now and wasn’t able to find his filter wrench.. he did the engine oil change as more of a favor as he doesn’t typically do them anymore. He mainly works on suspension etc.

@@westcoasttaco Makes sense then. Some will say his maintenance intervals are excessive and wasting money, his recommendations will make the vehicle last twice as long as other cars with normal maintenance intervals. I have done what he recommends for years regardless of what manufacturer intervals state and each car has lasted over 200k miles while running like they have 30k. Usually interior trim, radio, and other non mechanical things will fail before the engine and drivetrain does.

i just DIY the rear diff on my taco Gen1 for the very 1st time this week and found that the last place doing fluid checks that checked the fill level plug torqued it to something like 600 ftLbs when they put it back on... it would NOT budge with a 24" breaker and had to resort to air impact drill and it still struggled to zip off that fill plug ... torque is ONLY supposed to be 37ish ft/lbs ... the bottom drain was not an issue, barely coughed on the 24" breaker and it moved lmao

​@@efil4kizum✌️ just saw your comment 01taco here did you use friction modifier in the rear-ended people say it helps with the chader in turns tacos need it to save the clutchs just saying 🙋 I have 183,000 on mine

@@randyroth383 to be honest i have not heard of a friction modifier UNLESS that means the LSD additive? I used Valvoline 75/90 with the LSD additive that is not a full snythetic on sale at AAP for 10$ a bottle

Thank you! Since I bought the truck used I wanted to go ahead and get all the fluids done.. you just never know what kind of shape everything is in until you do it… I agree, thankfully the rear looked good 👍🏼! That front diff though..😬 not so much.

@@westcoasttaco sure I do the same when I buy a used truck. Understood! :)

@@Tacoexplorer helps me sleep better at night 🤣

@@ronsmith8434 75w-90👍🏼