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Absolutely true. If the gas block is so much as a hair off center, it won't send enough gas back to the bcg. I had a bad ejecter that kept FTE every round. After replacing the bolt, I haven't had a single failure in over 2k rounds. Problems can be solved if you investigate the failure and be proactive with it. I would trust my AR with my life.

You build an AR to suit your shooting needs, not for the resale value. Original does not mean higher value. You're always better building it, because you end up with exactly what you want. If you buy a complete AR in its pure form, you'll spend more money doing the upgrades that you will almost be guaranteed to do. Pistol grips, handguards (which may change what gas block you have), stocks, comps/brakes, barrel length/twist ...those are all things that need to be considered when building or buying.

This version is MUCH better

Great idea. Even better idea putting that on a public forum.

16" 1/9 twist, phantom aggresive brake, 55gr. 5 shots around a dime. Considering how small a dime is, I would expect you to be Robin Hood-ing those shots.

Love my mod4 latch. Much easier for a support hand rip on CH. I'm not gentle and it really gives you much more area to grab when trying to rip it fast

Totally disagree. I get awesome groups with Bronze.

I just got a response from PSA asking me if I sent a copy of FID in. I hope that after buying rifle ammo countless times without doing that, that I don't need to start now. Considering my order was placed the Sunday before last (9th), I find it a little ridiculous that if It's the case, that they didn't reach out after the order was placed.

I ordered 500 on the 7th and they haven't even made a shipping label yet.

I may be going on the 22nd, provided PSA comes through with my ammo in time.

At least they were classy and used wine glasses.

What I remember was him jumping the battery in his truck directly to the can with a radio inside. I'm pretty sure he just reached in and pulled it out, but I could be forgetting the detail of a a farraday cage being inside it. I DO remember thinking WTF is this guy doing?!

Accoding to Nat Geo's Preppers you can use an aluminum garbage can with a 12v battery and jumper cables to make one too!

I think you may have misunderstood me. She heard shots fired a few months back during/after some kind of robbery (somewhere from the Taco Bell area on St. George's Ave), not a few nights ago when the young woman was killed.

She's a manager at the Walgreens. Thanks man. Yea, she's well aware of all that. She's pretty well versed with those things. It's just a little hard to contain my worry about everything around there. It's never really been a GOOD area. As of late, it's really only gotten worse (what hasn't?). Like you said, most crimes are pre-planned. It only takes a couple of daily routines to get you held up, or worse.

My fiance works in Linden and sometimes she works a late shift, leaving at 11pm or later. She stays pretty knowledgeable about what's going on around her store. A few months ago, she could hear gun shots from within the store, followed by a flood of police cars. A couple days later it happened again, and apparently there was some kind of armed robbery involved. Her store has been robbed a couple times by some really desperate, drug addict, type of guys. Never while she was there though. Well, you may or may not have read/heard about the 18yr girl who just graduated high school that was killed at gun point by unknown thug. Very unexpected and tragic. This happened a couple blocks from her store. Just 2 nights ago there was another murder a few blocks from her store. Needless to say she is now taking all precautions necessary to keep safe. She has her Kimber Pepper Blaster II with her and ready at all times. She is never alone when walking into work, or walking to her car. She doesn't stop on her way home either. The point of this is to warn anyone else in the area of the rising amount of crimes lately. I've been hearing more and more. I would love to leave this state, like most else here. Unfortunately, job transfers are unlikely now. Eyes and ears people. Stay alert and aware of your surroundings, because people suck. Especially the desperate ones.

That's a good theory, but the vehicle wouldn't run long enough without the alternator to run what's called "drive cycles" for the computer to set the codes again. Not to mention as the voltage dwindled down it would actually produce a different set of codes for low voltage and other miscellaneous component failures because it sees a lower than normal "bias" voltage.

Coils are very expensive. Jeeps are typically around the $350 mark IIRC. Not something to just throw into a vehicle with multiple trouble codes that are unrelated. When an OBDII computer reads a misfire on multiple/random cylinders, it will not set a code for an O2 heater circuit, or a O2 high/low voltage. It could set a code for being too rich since the cylinder isn't firing, and is still injecting fuel. Circuit/voltage codes are specific to just that.

6cyl coil packs do have problems. They operate as a whole unit and commonly lose Cyl #3 & Cyl #5, also throwing a P0300-random misfire code. Correct on the heater also. Oxygen sensors have a heating element inside them to essentially speed up the process of reaching closed loop. Once again, if it fails to have a ground, it cannot complete the circuit and the heater will appear to have a malfunction. I strongly believe this to be a bad ground. Whether its a chassis, engine, or internal ground in the PCM. Contrary to popular belief the PCM mostly operates by controlling ground circuits to components. OP, if you give me the engine code (8th VIN digit) I can look up any TSB's, recalls, or common issues from within a repair tech community known as Identifix. I can also look at some wiring diagrams to see if any of those components share a circuit.

Took me 3 weeks to the day to get my order that I place June 21st. Needless to say I still ordered another 500rds of .223 yesterday with the PMC sale because, PSA pretty much has the best ammo prices right now.

Sounds more like a bad ground somewhere, to me. The odds of ALL of those codes coming up at once is HIGHLY unlikely. Just because a code gets stored doesn't mean there is actually a problem with the sensor attached to that specific code. Don't go throwing parts at it. The best place to start with a scanner is the Freeze Frame. This will tell you what the initial fault was. A bad ground that is shared between the coil pack, O2 sensors, and alternator will cause random misfires/no start, over charging, and O2 failures. Bad grounds are an evil demon and commonly overlooked.

I too was taught at early age. Somewhere around 8-10. The biggest point I agree on is what Smokin .50 said about taking away the mystery. Once I had no questions on how everything worked and knew all of the safety practices, it was no longer something I wanted to meddle in while nobody was looking (as kids love to do). I knew that as long as I was supervised, I could play all I wanted. That kept me from trying to sneak, as I wasnt affraid to ask. When children grow up around guns and proper safety, I firmly believe that it just becomes second nature. They always say that the earlier a child learns something, the better they are with it.

Spoiler alert!

It's a good thing he was working that day! Think of what you could have possibly missed out on. Nothing like gaining knowledge from Dick's employees.