1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

“there’s a sucker born every minute” has never been more true than it is today. And with 8 billion people on the planet, the odds are in the scammers favor. We have people at work that fell for the “email from the CEO” scam. So dumb. You think the CEO really wants you to use your corporate card to get some gift cards for a client project? NO. He doesn’t. He’s never even spoken to you before. Big dummy.

 

We had a training course that showed an example where scammers used deepfake to videocall an employee posing as the CEO and successfully transferred thousands of dollars to their account. With the creation/constant evolution of AI this will only become more and more common. As well as deepfake blackmail.

 

LOL, it's amazing how quickly they come up with all the snappy little terms like "spearfishing" "whaling" "catfishing" "malvertising" "smishing" "pharming"

 

Yeah, that's a bit scary territory. This shit is transforming/hurting the way we communicate. For me I worry about my 80yr old mother who is oblivious to it all.

 

I think as long as you get a meaty tire and 0 offset or into the negatives you’ll be fine. Rears will clear a 35 all day long if you cut, but the fronts still won’t. I did it because with the shock relocation I picked up a ton more travel. If you want pics I can take more or send you progress photos.

 

They might. I think they do, but I'd double check. I just posted the FS thread

Also big ball joints FS thread

 

I can measure them for you. I'm pretty sure it's 106mm for the caps.
My KMCs are 108mm, my Konigs are 110mm, and my MSTs are 106mm but the front is different from the back...
ptr18-35092

 

My memory was correct.


But I might try this first...
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-custom-flush-mount-trd-center-caps.278294/

 

Holy Moly….just barely off showroom floor !

 

They missed a zero.

 

LOL My company sends scam texts to company phones and if you click on it you get to do more training about scams.

 

Damn those wheels are uggos

 

Wheel covers

 

Styled like some real alloys they’ve used before….

 

Give it a few days, it’s on it’s 1st of 7 days.
I’d take the over on it being your $25K figure.

 

Uggo steelies underneath... Even worse.

 

Did you see this one? 1997 F350 with 3k miles….

$75k? Insane!

 

Needs some caddy hub caps.

 

I have not, I have BaT set to send 1st Gen Tundra sales.

 

The youngest one asked today, "Dad, what's a car that's cheap, fast, and reliable."

Input welcome. (I told him LS430)

 

SC400, but swap in the manual from SC300. Or turbo an SC300 for a Lexus Supra

 

I feel like thats one of those triangles; you can only pick two kinda game

 

Looks like someone put a stop-leak/fix-in-a-bottle product in the engine. Or someone was screwing around and sabotaged the car by putting powdered gelatin in the coolant overflow tank, or direct into the radiator.

 

Don’t you mean cheap, safe and reliable? Being a Dad and all.

 

I mean what he told me.

 

Okay. No argument from me.

 

My trucks trans did something weird today, while feathering the throttle in 80mph traffic, it got confused a couple times like it almost downshifted. Felt like it was in neutral for a quarter second, then would get back to overdrive and carry on like normal for a while. My best guess at the time was that the wind was gusting & i just happened to be on the edge of enough throttle to downshift, but when it happened the 3rd time or so i was back in the right lane choochin along at 65 like normal. Hopefully it was part of the computer ‘learning’ since cleaning my maf & whatnot. My weather app said it was only 10-15mph wind, but it might’ve been more effective cause i was passing a string of trucks hauling windmill blades.

 

Check your tranny fluid level

 

i didnt do the hot check, but i made sure some was in there while cold the day before yesterday. I did notice one of my power steering lines had a good amount of juice on it.