I feel it necessary to clarify a few things, and offer an apology to some. I hope you all take the time to read this, even if irritated with me due to my prior post. It might clarify a bit...
First and foremost, being a very spiritual person myself, I do feel compelled to apologize for the religious connotation of my 'go to hell' statement a few days ago. I think pastorwug brought that to my attention. To anyone that my choice of words offended on a religious basis, I wholeheartedly apologize. It was a poor choice of words on my part, and was not meant in a literal sense.
Second, I wanted to clarify that my prior post/rant was directed at only some. I tried to make that clear, using words like "some" and "those of you who..." but I guess in a heated discussion, sometimes subtle details like that are understandably missed. There are a bunch of you that offered condolences and kind words when I mentioned tough family times, deaths, and critical illness in my immediate family. As I did publicly before, I thank you for that. I know its too late for most, but I apologize for directing that towards the WOL community as a whole. As in all communities, there are bad eggs. I was in the wrong for directing that generally. There are alot of really good people here, with good intentions.
There were as many others that offered no contribution of ideas or thoughts to my project, ignored any mention of my family's difficulties, but then found the time to repeatedly express their irritation with me personally. Stating things like that I only wrote this for the attention. These are the people that were my intended audience. Again - the ones that said nothing throughout my research, not a word when I mentioned terrible family issues, but were the first to jump in and criticize, and with plenty of sarcasm and personal attacks.
Third, mainly to clarify things for computeruser6, I received one donation. One. I never asked for any. One single, solitary, used, worn out old unit bearing. I personally bought several new and used calipers and rotors. I also ruined one brand new Reid Racing knuckle when I went out on a limb to have it machined, trying to find a solution, which didn't work out. I'm probably out close to a grand. jkbud donated a unit bearing. And I publicly expressed my gratitude. It helped a bunch (so I didn't have to keep pulling apart my DD to fit a new rotor or caliper to check clearances, etc), and I thanked him several times.
Fourth, I never have tried to keep things a secret. I simply didn't want to throw a half-assed idea out there, have some of you start buying parts, and then run into a problem. I discussed many specific options early on that I eliminated, so I have been disclosing. I was trying to save people from wasting money (and instead only throwing away my own at times), and more importantly, performing an untested mod and possibly creating an unsafe condition for you and/or your family, or others on the road. I don't know why this became such a point that caused such repeated personal attack against me. I've never sought profit or personal gain and made that VERY clear from the first post.
Lastly, I never claimed to be an expert. I learned as much as anyone else during this endeavor. I just tried to share my learning as I went. That's part of why the process and my posts were so detailed. I was trying to share what I learned about brake systems as a whole. I never wanted to sell anything. I never had any malicious intentions. I worked on this with my kids, and until the comments toward me turned overly rude, sarcastic, and childish (better terms than the 'inhumane' that I chose on my prior post), they read and followed along. I'm sorry if I mislead you all. I never had any intentions other than to learn, have a little fun, and try to see if a better solution could be had. Yep, as computeruser6 found, a few other companies have since come out with a product to address our JK braking woes. I'm not a company. Much less a BRAKE PRODUCT company, whose sole purpose for existing is to produce braking products.
Some of you may have already made your opinion of me, and that is fine. I only replied because I felt that a few have found a strange interest in attacking my character. My prior reply may have been blunt and offended some, and I apologize. I'm sure some of you, however, would understand how frustrating it feels when someone, especially someone you don't even know, takes the time to repeatedly attack your character or claims to know your intentions, and they are completely wrong. (can be applied to so much in life) So, I will restate, I am sorry for the delays. I'm sorry for 'creating false hope'. Life dealt my family a crappy hand of cards the last year and so my Jeep and its associated projects have been on hold. I tried to make that known. I thank those who understand this and appreciate your support. My prior rant was aimed not towards all, but only towards those that ignored the reasons for my delay and project holds and proceeded to have a field day with attacking my character. To them, I will more politely this time state: My family comes first.
