Hey guys. I’m the guy who left blackgate. Well technically I was terminated. But that was after a buy out option that I didn’t agree with. Basically I couldnt make stuff for kdss let a long offroad market. So that was a no go for me. And when I told him I didn’t agree, well he said I was terminated and I lost my shares and ideas to the company. [emoji849][emoji2359]
I was brought on to blackgate to make things happen. Like literally come up with the parts and get them to production after testing etc. my partner ( other owner ) was suppose to do everything else included the customer service. But still I ended up doing the customer service because he didn’t know how to properly answer them. I gave the answer and basically how to answer most questions. But there was things that came up that he couldn’t answer so ppl still reached out to me. He took offense to that as if I was doing his job. Technically I was. I didn’t mind though. I enjoyed it.
Another issue came up was that he said I’ve made a directional change into the company and where we were going. Originally was brought on to make parts for the ranger and other platforms. I bought the 4r for myself. When I discovered the issue with the contact. It was something that I needed to address to make my 4r work the way I know I can. I searched and search and all I found was the Sonoran track bar. I hated it so my first attempt was to make a more traditional bent track bar to get around the contact points. While test fitting the track bar , light bulb went off in my head the blocks came to me. Of course now he’s sees the potential in the blocks, we decide to go full tilt on the blocks. I’m not saying that treaty offroad didn’t work on or do this first. I just know it wasn’t public space for me to find it. I don’t face book. I searched and searched. It is very possible for one to come up with an idea that one may have already came up with. I promise I never seen it anywhere and I thought it was the first. So if there actual pics of the spacers in a public space that was done before me then by all means he did it first. If not , he still prob did it first but I created that in my head. We must think alike. Anyway right before leading up to me leaving , he started down playing the blocks as if they were the reason blackgate had / had a name up to this point. I mean it’s the only production part we have with the kdss set to drop. So if you need kdss drop blocks I’m gonna recommend the ones from treaty and not blackgate. For obvious reason haha.
About the kdss switch, I’m still in testing and am actually going to create another version of it where it happens inside the cab. That area out side is waaaaay to sensitive. Let’s just say there’s a high chance of potentially failure in that plug area once you take off the Oem connector. Let alone trying to use after market connector on the outside of the truck in a sensitive area. I didn’t happen to my truck , but some of my testers experienced issues.
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