RX350 2009 -- To change oil filter, remove the plastic door panel (2 screws 10 mm) approximately located underneath the windshield washer bottle on bottom right side of car. Use a 3/8 drive to unscrew the filter drain plug. The oil did not drain out of the filter housing until the plastic drain tube (included with filter and instructions Fram CH 9972) was inserted into bottom of oil filter housing. When the plastic tube is pushed into the bottom of the filter housing, the oil will start to drain right away. Have the oil drain bucket ready. After the oil has drained out of the filter housing, replace the drain plug. Use a filter wrench that goes over bottom of oil filter housing (I had to buy one at Auto Parts store--it cost about $6. It looks like a huge socket). Unscrew oil filter housing and remove old filter element. Clean out unit and remove the two old gaskets, install new filter element and new gaskets, fill filter housing to 3/4 full, install the oil filter housing back into place, replace the plastic door panel, drain the oil from the oil pan, replace with new oil (approximately 6.4 Qts total with filter, minus what you added to the filter--check your owners manual). Start the engine. Check for leaks. You just saved yourself a bundle; however, you didn't get the jiffy car wash from your dealer.

Can we get some pictures of this from someone??

On my 07, the filter element is inside the allum. housing. There is nothing else present.

This is what I did:
Took off the housing with the 3/8 drive
Dump the oil out, as it was filled.
Remove the gasket and filter element
Clean the housing
Reinsert the new element and gasket
Replace the housing.

Where is this piece which needs to be pierced with the plastic tube?? What does it look like.

It had to work, as I have no leaks anywhere.

I would also like to see some photos. I have a 2010 RX350 and like changing my own oil and not fimilar with these new oil filter systems.
Thanks

If you can change oil on the friggan hog you can change on the Lexy lol!!!

No photos yet but the metal cylinder housing holding the filter element is supposed to come apart in two sections. The 3/8" socket wrench extension is supposed to take off only the very bottom disk on the cylinder. Then the little plastic gizmo that is in the box with the new filter is shoved into the exposed opening, it pushes a valve open, and the oil in the cylinder drains. Hint: a short piece of 5/8" garden hose easily fits over the plastic gizmo and down to the oil drain pan.

Then, since there is no 3/8" square hole on the bottom anymore, a 64 mm socket is needed. NAPA auto sells cheap ones and Assenmacher sells a better one P/N TOY640. Since the cylinder is now empty there is no oil to spill. Replace the filter and the two O rings, reassemble, install, and you are done.

The bottom cap is screwed on very tightly and the whole cylinder will usually turn the first time it is removed. I had to put it in a vice after the whole thing was out to get the little bottom disk off during the first oil change.

skywagon

you got a point there!!!

hogs are not he easiest things to change the oil on but I had a book to help me through the first time and a bike lift. Could not find anything in the book with a discribtion or what works best for me-photos. I know they want you to take to them for oil changes but I'm an hour away from the nearest dealer and I could have done it myself by then.

Bob

If you are short on time any Toyota dealer will also do the oil change with a tire rotation for about $60, they also check the brake pads for wear and all the fluids.
Jeff