What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Well it’s by no means perfect, and the dash isn’t level because of the slight curvature. But I like it.

 

You got 20 degrees of stink bug?
And 5 degree taco lean

 

Ah, just drive with a gangsta lean & it'll be fine.

(Steering wheel on the wrong side but you get the idea. Oh and you can't forget the backwards hat! )


But seriously, looks good.

 

Haha, I like that it exaggerates his stink bug stance but in my eyes is spot on!

 

That you?

 

I thought it was Tyler. Looks more like him than me. Ok maybe when I was a teen.

 

Haven’t adjusted it yet. It’s on the Hilux Surf factory spec’s.

 

I’m actually so stink-bug, I can no longer adjust the gauge to compensate for the severe rake that a 3” lift in the rear, and a 0” lift in front produces.

This is my best attempt at adjusting it. 15 degrees of lean sounds about right for having an uneven lift.

 

No one here in SoCal (or the Bay area) can survive on $15 hour full time. $30/hr full time is barely comfortable for a single dude (no kids) living in LA, from experience. And I have to supplement with freelance work. Forget about ever thinking of owning a home on that though, would probably need to be making at least double that to begin that dream. Unless you moved out to the desert out here where it gets considerably cheaper, but that's like living in a wasteland lol.

Hence why in a couple years we want to move out of CA

 

An annual income of $100k is considered Low Income in San Francisco.

 

Yup. In Orange County down here $80k is considered the poverty line.

Anyway I know we've all talked about this before but I just wanted to make it known that those asking for a $15/hr min wage **here** aren't asking for a lot, hell they still wouldn't survive on that alone.

 

I think your stink bug is so bad that the gauge shows more slope than when I went down this hill 2 days ago!

Ok actually maybe not but we won't stop messing with you until you put your front suspension on already!

 

Gorman?

 

I have fallen a many of times on that hill.

 

Reminds me I want to Miller Jeep Trail out that way one more time this year before they close it down for the winter.

 

Yeah Gorman, Pronghorn Trail. Wanted to find the trail that I went on with a bunch of TW guys. I forgot which one it was, it was a longtime ago. Found it!

I sure as hell can't crawl up that trail but I can have fun going down it. That hill is the only sketchy part.

Same hill from like 7 yrs ago. Not gonna lie, I was a bit scared this time & not at all last time with my wheel up in the air (I didn't know though).

 

Like most Californians fleeing the state we're looking into Oregon most likely. My brother and his wife moved there earlier this year and my dad is once he retires.

I lived in Portland as a kid for awhile but dont care for that area much anymore, probably look at Eugene or that area

 

One of my best friends took over his dad's gun business here in CA and promptly relocated it to Cour d'alene, Idaho a few years back, he loves it out there.

 

I can tell you for a fact 15$ a hour is shit.
That's what i make and it sucks

 

Kinda bummed, started saving for some King coilovers back in May putting away what I could here and there. At the time I needed around $940.

Checked last month they were $992. A month later I hit my cash goal, start looking online and they’ve jumped to around $1200. What the fuck? How do they justify a 20% price increase in less than 6 months?