I am using the little Toyota filters. At first, I thought there was a mistake. Nope. They screw on and work fine. Check me in six months, and I'll know if they are doing th ejob.
I ran NAPA gold for years on all my trucks and all the customers trucks. I really think it is as good or better than OEM. I now run only the OEM filters both large and small depending on how many the dealer can get. For me it came down to trust. I really trust Toyota to have higher quality control than NAPA and I just cannot afford a bad filter.
Works out to about $2 more for OEM.
The large filter is still in the system and can be special ordered. I just like it cuz all my filter wrenches fit it. Smaller is said to be better.
I do work at NAPA and only use NAPA/WIX Gold. I think the oem are good but not $2 better and plus I get parts at cost + 10%. Hard to beat that. NAPA/WIX filters are the best in the aftermarket and available just about anywhere.
NAPA Gold filters include premium filter medium, bypass valve and anti flow back valve.
I have sold thousands of these NAPA filters and only once has one come back and it had bad threads and wouldn't thread on. None have come back with filtering malfunciton.
How many filter malfuncitons has anyone heard of anyway?
IMHO OEM good, NAPA good. YOU decide.
Large filter #1515
Small filter #1348
For the money, don't use the NAPA silver or NAPA Select. Gold it where it's at man.
I agree with Russ. I've used the Napa Gold 1515's for years, though I have used the Toyota big filter the last 2 changes on my 80 series thanks to this forum. My older cruisers likely lived for years before that on the orange can of doom and still seem to be doing fine. For at least the last 4 years my 3 have all had 1515's with seemingly good service. I have noticed that on my 80 series only, the oil pressure is slightly higher with the larger Toyota filter as opposed to the smaller one. I don't know if that is significant or not.
WIX 51515, notice the # is almost the same as NAPA
my Toyota parts guy who has been at Toyota 13 years, been in parts sense the early 70's thinks the WIX is as good or better then Toyota and runs it on his 2 Toyota's.
I have recently been using Toyota smallfilters. Question: what is the difference between the OEM large and small filter? The large is discontinued, and the small is better? Don't want to hijack, just curious. I hope this clears things up for people.
I always went with Toyota filters until they became half the size. It just doesn't make sense that a filter half the size could filter as well. What was his reasoning in recommending the small Toyota filter vs a big NAPA gold filter?
I just picked up my 62 last week, so decided on Thursday afternoon to do an oil/filter change. Went with Napa gold because Napa is just down the road, and honors the 10%AAA discount.
I probably just got a defective one, but I could not get it to stop leaking around the seal. Got it to go from a geyser to a trickle, but the trickle was still too much to risk driving the truck. So I said screw it and took the 40 the extra 10 miles to the dealer. (That's why you have 2 cruisers, right?).
Boulder Toyota (Colorado) has 95 of the big oil filters still in stock, but will not be getting anymore. Their list price is $9.95, and the parts guy said that they pretty much just ordered the big ones for LandCruiser guys, as for some reason LC guys look at him funny when he brings out that small filter. I know I did, even after he took them both out of the boxes, and we compared all the different parts. I just figured bigger must be better.
So now I have the OEM filter on, and have managed to stop the leak around the seal. Now I just need to figure out how to get all that oil off my engine and the stain off my driveway. I have some driveway stuff, just need to get out an use it. Also need to figure out what I angered, because she still seems to be dripping, just from somewhere else.
In my shop I only use the Wix 51773 or Carquest 85773. It is a few inches longer than the small standard filter, but for these dirty old Cruiser engines, I like the extra filter media and the extra oil capacity. Application is some Toyota forks, Ford dumptrucks and ag equipment.
