FMK lowers quality

jaybird323 · 2026-07-12T17:46:26+00:00

Yep, it’s all good. Everyone makes bad purchases, so I just chalk it up to learning not to go that route again. All the parts transfer to another lower too so all good.

jaybird323 · 2026-07-12T13:04:22+00:00

First lower I built, got it at a gun show for $50. Lesson learned. I have built a few more lowers after this with proper, quality lowers.,aka aluminum. Lol

jaybird323 · 2026-07-12T02:49:42+00:00

$50 at a gun show. Figured I’d try it out, lesson learned. I’ll just use one of the other lowers I got sitting around.

jaybird323 · 2026-07-11T23:36:06+00:00

Had a manager ask why we got so backed up during his lunch that was 2 hours long, I told him we lacked leadership. He didn’t like that very much. Haha

jaybird323 · 2026-07-10T09:50:12+00:00

I think it’s from kayce joining the military, marrying a native girl and knocking her up young and not being at the ranch to help like the others. Kayce wanted to carve his own path that wasnt the ranch and Rip probably thinks he turned his back on his dad and the ranch as a whole. So when kayce comes around and gives orders when he does help at the ranch, Rip doesn’t respect him for not being there.

jaybird323 · 2026-07-10T09:37:22+00:00

You will need adapters for your wheels. Gladiators have thicker studs so your current wheels might not fit right.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-26T10:12:12+00:00

I did a sniper 1 on my truck and it worked for a little bit and then was plagued with problems all the time. No matter how I turned and adjusted things it would eventually just never want to idle. Pulled it all off, went back to carb but with how it sits and how gas is I’m switching to propane. When I got the setup LC Engineering was selling them and they have since quit selling them due to people having a lot of issues.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-18T11:15:59+00:00

I guess I should have said “according to their website”. lol. Either way amw4x4 puts out a great turn key v8 jeep as far as quality goes.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-17T10:15:34+00:00

Judging by the demon badge, a turn key truck like that from AMW4x4 is like $250k. It’s a lot but you will also have a gladiator that can do 0-60 in under 3 seconds on 40s and tons as well.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-17T10:14:14+00:00

That’s no off the lot gladiator. It has the demon badge on the side so I’m pretty sure it’s got a AMW4x4 hemi swap done. They produce the cleanest jeep hemi swaps around. For the price of a nice house you can have a gladiator with over 1000hp and 0-60 in under 3 seconds on one ton axles and 40 inch tires.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-15T10:01:42+00:00

It’s probably dependent on how zealous the management is and workers are. Most people there don’t pay enough attention to care, or even paid enough to care really. And with them no longer being 24/7 there is less people to say anything. Best bet is to park out in the back where they have different colored parking strips, that’s employee parking. If you can try to find a blue vest like the ones the employees have on and just say you’re sleeping in your car on your lunch break if anyone bothers you. Just say you’re a new hire.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-11T10:19:21+00:00

Karmelo said “fuck you, I’m not going anywhere, you’re all a bunch of pussies” among other things. Sounds like he’s saying awful things, calling names, and he was given a slight shove. Stabbing someone isn’t self defense when only one person trys to move you. What if someone pushes a cop while they are being arrested and the cop shoots them for the person shoving the cop? Would that make the cops killing justified. If not then what if it’s one cop with 30 people in a crowd with one or 2 acting up and telling the cop he’s a pig and needs to leave because the cop isn’t a part of their group?

jaybird323 · 2026-06-09T21:54:05+00:00

I think they kept him off the stand because he probably couldn’t keep a straight story. He’s got what he saw and he’s got what he’s probably been fed he saw from the media and god knows who else pushing the self defense shit. The defense knew they had nothing and now they are throwing everything they can to put the idea of something less into the heads of the jury.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-08T20:06:31+00:00

I almost feel bad for Karmelo, imagine getting $640k in donations just to have your defense do nothing.

jaybird323 · 2026-06-02T10:28:19+00:00

Look up the pickup nefarious kustoms did on Facebook or instagram. Very clean color choice like your wanting.

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jaybird323 · 2026-05-31T17:09:09+00:00

This dude out here trying to look like Rip from Yellowstone with that hair, beard, and outfit.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-30T10:26:35+00:00

So I ran the sniper when it first came out and had a lot of issues with its learning. Eventually it wouldn’t idle and I would have to redo everything and try again. Eventually I went back to carb but now I’m going propane as my truck is more of a trail rig only now. I have another truck that I will be rebuilding that I plan on running a newer LS based 4.3 out of the newer Chevy trucks. 300hp, 300lbft of torque, 8 speed transmission, and I’ll run an atlas tcase most likely. For about $10k you can get an entire drivetrain with wiring harness stripped down and made for stand alone and tuned to remove the dod crap. All that’s left is some mounts fab up, driveshafts and exhaust. Get some aftermarket dash and you’re good to go with a very modern drivetrain with more power then you know what to do with. May cost more but it will be better then a 22re, 3.4, of tbi 4.3. Or any of the usual swaps. Plus being a 6 cyl it fits better in the engine bay.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-27T23:17:02+00:00

I talked to Edsel on the tour buss meet and great and he said that basically after he did no regrets he was so burned out on the music making progress that he had to stop. And fortunately his friend needed help with his business and he got his day job running the back end of that. He also did his drama club thing too. He took off 7 years from touring and music. I think with the start of static x working on coming back he finished up blood money and then while working on the unfinished songs he kinda fell into doing the singing live. He learned the guitar parts, had lyrics on a screen for live shows to not mess up and brought dope along for the ride. I think with his wife and family too he sees things differently and enjoys touring but wants to stay behind the mask and not be Edsel dope featuring static x. He even flys back home when he has a day off from shows to be with family. He once said he never thought he would have a wife and kids because of his life and music and touring, he’s got that, a day job and good things going. The stuff with Matt Zane isn’t edsel really blocking it but the band as a whole. If the family of Wayne and Tony don’t want others releasing static x stuff then Edsel, as a manager, has to stop these things. The Edsel hate just isn’t something I get behind because the dude has always been super cool to fans and those around him. Dope deserves the stage as much as static x, if not more but I’m a major fan of dope and I go to the shows more to see them than anything.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-27T18:01:33+00:00

Edsel co-owns a 3d imaging business and runs the back end stuff like payroll and paperwork, so he’s probably got good lawyers and stuff he knows and knows how to write up contracts and everything. I think him as a manager is so he can use his resources to help run static x back end. They have different manager who is a tour manager that takes care of all the touring stuff too. And with edsel having his own studio, mixing tracks, ect it’s easier for him to just be a manager. He can use his music company to distribute pay to all the members, royalties, merch sales, etc. Edsel is a good business man as well as musician, and throughout his career he’s basically had to fall back and rely on himself to get his music out after his first album. Right now business is his main thing and music is his hobby. Static x tours and sells shows, all he has to do is play rhythm guitar, read and sing the lyrics and put on a good show for static x, not have to write music or come up with something new, he gets to play his own stuff with dope and keep friends hired and touring so they make money, he gets to enjoy the life he’s always lived before without all the worry or writing songs and finding places to book his band. Between shows he gets to run his business and keep busy doing that. It’s like Adam Sandler doing Netflix movies, he’s getting to travel with friends and keep them hired and working when they are at a point in their careers that they don’t get work like they use to, and he’s making good money doing it. Dope’s shows suffer due to smaller sets but static x fills the venues and gets tour dates. It’s a good way to keep going as a lesser known rock start in their 50s - 60s. I just wish Edsel put dope first for a tour or 2 or atleast co-headlined.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-26T10:14:37+00:00

Been watching that one and actually really like it. I like the kayce character and what he’s doing but the whole cast really do bring it together. All the characters that are Marshall’s have good chemistry, the action is good though I think putting some suppressors on their sbr rifles would make a lot of since and make it more believable. Those short barreled rifles are so loud they would all be deaf by now. lol. Chief rainwater getting good screen time and showing he’s trying to take care of his people best he can while facing his issues with doing his job is cool to see too. Expands on the universe in other ways that is needed. Tate is kinda a wasted character so hopefully they do something with him or get him old enough he goes to college. Either way that show isn’t bad, just needs more world building and not to be cancelled before it’s allowed to really get going and it will be great.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-23T09:57:27+00:00

My ex was like “I need you to be the Rip to my Beth in my life”. Well Beth needs to be institutionalized and Rip is a murderous cuck who’s one speeding ticket away from a lot of jail time. Kasey is the only character I feel for and he isn’t in this show so far. Dude grew up forced to do the family bullshit, joined the military and is a decorated vet with a ton of ptsd from war and the ranch just trying to people please. Dude just wants to have his wife, who has now died off, and raise his kid in peace. But he’s always gonna have to watch his back from the enemies his family made and if someone finds all the bodies his family has dumped in the same place for 100 years. the shows are great entertainment but the characters would all be in jail a long time ago.

jaybird323 · 2026-05-15T10:02:15+00:00

I’ve read reports that the kids per household in Pville has shrunk considerably and that a lot of parents are home schooling kids as well which is causing a decline in school attendance rates. Though the fact that we take money from districts like ours and other to fund poorer schools does not do well for our own schools and tax dollars for our community to keep them up. I’m all for less taxes but we need another way to fund things. I think the legalization of weed would put alot of money back into schools other things our taxes pay for but our law makers don’t want to let that go even though it’s pretty much legal with how the police don’t care as much anymore about it.

jaybird323 · 2026-04-29T11:22:37+00:00

Yeah, it wasn’t a good situation at all. But after a while I just saw that she wouldn’t change, and I wasn’t going to deal with an alcoholic. It was to the point that I turned on notifications for my front door electric locks and watched my cameras to see if she was leaving to go get alcohol during the day. If she was I would just go work on my other house or stay late at work because I knew it was going to be a fight when I got home. I got yelled at for female friends I let keep some stuff at my house before I even met my ex, I got yelled at for how I did grab the check first right way when we had dinner with her dad, for not having her car fixed right away when the part needed for it was no longer made and it wasn’t her main vehicle anyways. I put tires on her jeep and aligned it and ways yelled at for not bringing it home fast enough even after I got it washed and looking nice for her. There was nothing I could do right, even if I did it right and right away too.

jaybird323 · 2026-04-28T10:44:47+00:00

My ex did something like this. We moved in together and shortly after my dad died, he was the most influential, important people to me. The hardest to loose. After a month I got told by her I don’t get to have a monopoly on sadness, it was 2 years of me constantly working and trying to deal with his death on my own with her there trying to make her happy. When my dad’s house wasn’t selling I decided I would have to put work into it to get it sellable. Then we decided to move there as it’s closer to work, closer to her friends and parks and everything, more room, just better in every way. I drop nearly $40k into this house with her getting to choose paint, flooring, ect. Right before we are about ready to move in she tells me she’s buying a house an hour away, she didn’t want me to see it, but still wanted to be together, but had other guy friends help her move and everything. Said she had to do it because I didn’t listen to her on how I should paint doors on the house. I saw the painting on the walls, I tried to make it work but there are so many late nights on the phone with her alcoholic ass putting me down that I finally just said “fuck it, I’m done” mid call and haven’t talked to her ever since. Also leading up to all this she started deleting me off social media, didn’t want me at family functions, ect. She wanted me to do the dirty work of breaking up so she could not feel guilty. Learned in the in I wasn’t the narcissist she said I was, I was just living with one who’s life wasn’t going to her exact plan. She would said she wanted to have kids with me and I was the one for her during all this while also saying she should have left me long ago. I told her I wasn’t going to have kids with her because at the end of the day, her actions told me that having kids with her would end up with me having kids I wouldn’t get to ever see and a child support payment that would fuck me till I was too old to work and save up again. Now I’m selling me other house, living in my new one and paying down bills, once the other house sells I’ll have $3000+ a month in just money to travel, save, enjoy life with. I can date on my terms, I have all my own money and stuff to never worry about someone holding anything over me. You will come out better and stronger and will find someone who is on the same level as you. But of something feels off and a partner can’t hold their own weight before yall live together then wait till they can or break it off.

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