I am OCD as they come but bed scratches ... that's a bit too much to worry about. It's a truck. My bed has spray liner from the distributor and it's really nice. I am not even sure how I would scratch it.
Oh - yeah - the filter in my truck was covered in oil like yours. The OEM replacement had a very light amount. So light that I wasn’t sure if I should add more.
Mine was almost dry! I had to touch the rubber part to really makes sure it had some oil on it. On the filter I could not feel any oil at all - but it was red so I guess it was oiled?
If you don’t unplug it, you cannot pry the filter housing apart by more than 2 inches. If you unplug it, it comes right open and it doesn’t suck at all. It’s super easy.
Yeah, I know you can find ways to trick it to idle, but like … am I going to do that every time I turn off the truck? I think the toyota engineers probably thought of this issue.
But all the internet people said “new Tacoma bad” and predicted nobody would buy this truck and the lots would all overflow … wonder what happened
Just replaced mine. If you disconnect the mass air sensor it’s super simple and quick.
The new filter only had a tiny bit of oil on it. I was tempted to add more, but I didn’t wanna mess with the OEM spec.