...just another voice in the crowd. Mine went smooth and clean. Put a 2' section of vinyl tubing on filter drain valve, straight to waste pan. Used the metal filter cup and taller filter pipe in lieu of OEM plastic cup. Didn't concern myself with metal tab on old cup. Replaced oil pan drain plug with, '
Votex - DP006 Stainless Steel Engine Oil Drain Plug with Neodymium Magnet (M12-1.25) - MADE IN USA' from RocketMan's Amazon site.
Also, as I have on all my oil changes of other vehicles, I pre-filled the filter/cup prior to install. I do this so this is little chance of dry sump first few seconds of re-start. Oil changes now at 5000miles. Synthetic oil- conventional oil, oil is oil and oil gets dirty. Dirty oil is a huge contributing factor to engine wear, so 5000miles is my comfort zone for oil changes. 3500 was my break point for conventional oil. One last item, I bought this 2018 4Runner from a dealership w/21,500miles on it. So who knows if they really did the scheduled maintenance on this prior to sale. I will tell you the oil was black as could be,
every bolt I had to bump w/impact, including plastic filter cup.
The only easy off item was the filter drain plug. All in all, cleaner and easier than expected.