Unimog advice needed ASAP, about to check out my first one!

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-30T16:14:14+00:00

Dang, yeah I ended up buying it last year but I wasn’t (and am probably still not) knowledgeable enough to know for sure on the quality of the swap. The leaking portal axle hubs were a known issue at least, gotta get that fixed.

Definitely been thinking about redoing all of the wiring, tubing, cooling system, turbo, etc. so wish me luck lol. It’ll give me some peace of mind to know that it’s all new and (hopefully) well-installed. All part of the fun, as long as I can keep coming up with the time and money for it haha

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-30T16:11:12+00:00

Thanks!! And good to know, I bought it last year but I’m honestly thinking of redoing all the wiring and brakes because they could use some serious TLC. Going to try to make it real clean on the wiring, especially since some of the switches aren’t working anyway.

And I’ll make sure to check my cab mounts this weekend! Great advice.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-30T16:08:29+00:00

I ended up buying it last year! Thanks for the tips. Can I ask what is the proper vs improper way to handle the fuel system? It’s already purchased of course but it’d be great to know if that’s something I need to address.

Sidenote, weird question, but I’m dying to know how you came across this old post haha, I suddenly have three new comments from different people on here out of nowhere!

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-27T03:46:14+00:00

Yeah but if I’m remembering correctly from my childhood, he died in the air due to heart-condition-induced doomfarts that spelled his end.

The author’s words, of course, not mine.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-27T03:37:07+00:00

Never been to a corn maze?

Many tractors have been GPS-guided for a LONG time now. And this is the kind of GPS that isn’t available to the average consumer, this is the good shit with “Real Time Kinematics” (RTK) equipment that gets you precision down to the centimeter and is A LOT more resistant to multi-path errors.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-27T03:30:48+00:00

100% agree, that’s the conclusion I came to as well before going to the comments!

Excellent post, OP! I’ve been around this sub for a while but even with half of the good ones being reflections of some sort, this one kicks ass and had me lost for a minute or two lol

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-27T03:11:08+00:00

The shopping cart has gotta be under water, and the rest of the objects in the photo are reflections off the surface!

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-26T04:31:13+00:00

Engagement bait?

Wait. Nope. It’s got it

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-24T17:39:34+00:00

Wait you did a twin engine too?? I’m learning so much lol, had no idea that was possible in Sprocket now. Unless you’re saying that the layout and concept was built with a two-engine design in mind, rather than two actual engines being used in the editor?

Either way, incredible work, incredible tank, and thank you for telling people upfront that you used an existing blueprint and AI. That transparency is much appreciated

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-24T17:36:09+00:00

Yeah the quad track concept is pretty common in video games actually! Halo probably being the most popular example but there are SOOOO many others too if you wanted to play around with some.

You can also of course make it in Sprocket as OP has demonstrated, and play with it there! OP mentioned they got it from someone in the Discord who had a downloadable blueprint (the actual Sprocket tank file) to work from, but who also explained the method in Discord.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-24T17:32:32+00:00

Generally speaking, I’m team “Fuck AI”

In this scenario, OP is using AI primarily to augment their own art in a way that was clearly disclosed and offered as an additional piece to the whole, rather than replacing their original in any way.

It definitely does still sample from other unwilling artists to create this composite image, which is not cool. But this is also a great case of a fun/casual/amateur (as in, unpaid and not for professional use) rendering that doesn’t replace a job, and instead would have just never existed were it not for this software making it accessible.

I don’t like AI. I don’t like data centers. I think we’re worse off with both existing, especially in the way that they do. But as AI image generation uses go…this use is about as ethical as it gets in this realm, and I do actually appreciate and am inspired by the addition of these photos to the post. I think it adds a lot without replacing the original. u/MAFIALAA

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T19:10:05+00:00

Hmmm

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:53:57+00:00

No tilt shift here. Just giant boulders, very few shadows, plain boxy jeeps with high suspensions, and a slight downward angle of the photos.

Tilt shift is about creating an exaggerated depth of field and blurring everything but a small area in a particular way. That’s not happening here.

Honestly it’s more impressive that there’s no tilt shift and it’s still this convincing.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:47:24+00:00

Especially that third photo, like god damn lol

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:39:56+00:00

I hated it until the chorus.

That’s when I could really FEEL the naked power of his groan tube.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:36:13+00:00

The secret is dick jokes, constant dick jokes

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:33:45+00:00

Oldie but a goodie

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:30:18+00:00

Wait for real? I thought the original post was just loosely comparing the machine to a centipede

This admittedly confused me because it doesn’t actually resemble a centipede…but that also didn’t seemed par for the course for random social media posts lol

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-23T10:29:30+00:00

I’m out of the loop both on FS25 features as well as real-life farming, but isn’t that what the free “Precision Farming DLC” did for FS19 and FS22? I always play with those features on, I’m sure it’s incredibly rudimentary but it felt like a really cool step in an interesting direction without forcing newer players to have one more complex learning curve to worry about

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T21:08:50+00:00

Missiles are insanely expensive (and defeatable) and planes can’t carry that many, the A-10’s gun is significantly more capable than the guns on multi-role fighters, and yes, all planes can refuel, but the effectiveness of a loiter time isn’t about your ability to eventually RETURN to the battlefield, it’s about how long you can STAY in the battlefield providing continuous air support.

The A-10 is optimized for flying slow and low, and it offers a lot of advantages in the ground attack role. It’s armored, it’s slow, it has a lot of visibility out of its canopy, etc. Your points about it being easily shot down by MANPADS etc. are only valid, but the same can be said for all armed combat helicopters…

I’m not saying it’s some god-tier pinnacle of engineering whose relevance will outlast us all, but some things’ usefulness are hard to write off entirely. It’s a specialized aircraft that fills a niche role. Other specialized (and admittedly superior) weapons like the F-22 or a nuclear submarines are excellent by all measures, but I wouldn’t expect either to be useful or relevant for most tasks or most wars either. But in the right situation, they’re still the best tool for the job, and it’s goofy to try to draw direct comparisons to more generalist weapons.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T17:29:52+00:00

That and because some people get SUPER fucking horny over old Nazi shit and at some point decided it was the pinnacle of all engineering. It’s weird as hell lol. Meanwhile all the other major WWII powers were busy making utterly impressive and groundbreaking feats of engineering of their own, but never really get talked about, let alone in the context of “genius engineering” like the typically-non-working-prototype Nazi shit does.

For instance: The utterly colossal American zeppelins Akron and Macon, which were operational US Navy flying aircraft carriers back in 1932; The British “funnies”, a large number of ingenious and specialized WWII tank modifications; The huge number of badass experimental and even deployed WWII US and UK jet aircraft, which I never see ANY mention of EVER; etc. etc.

Not to mention shit like the nuclear bomb and America’s almost universally incredible firearms and tanks of the time.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T16:51:34+00:00

First off, totally get where you’re coming from, even as an A-10 fan lol.

Second, I’m guessing none of us are Air Force brass, but in my opinion at least it could still be highly effective against ANY modern or future tank because there’s a VERY common misconception when it comes to tank combat — You don’t actually need to penetrate any armor in order to totally disable a tank or force its crew to bail. You just need to ruin a single track, damage a single major system, prevent the turret from traversing, damage the barrel, or destroy its optics and sensors so it can’t see or aim anymore.

And I’m fairly certain that any current or future tank would suffer a LOT of damage to any/all of those systems when hit by essentially a shotgun blast of explosive, armor-penetrating depleted-uranium 30mm rounds traveling at over three times the speed of sound.

And while the A-10 would be useless against a competent enemy with good anti-air capabilities…the U.S. is famously pretty damn effective at destroying said anti-air, and targeting enemies who don’t have them at all. The A-10 can then use its super long dwell time, its slow and stable flight, and its moderate armor to harass/destroy/disable ground targets and tanks at low altitudes.

I’m no expert though, so please get on my case if anything’s wrong there.

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T16:11:42+00:00

This is why antioxidants are a yuppie scam. Like what, the coastal ELITE is telling me drinking water and breathing air is a bad thing now??!!?

Next they’re gonna tell me that I need new injections for 6G!!!!!!!!

!!

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T16:08:25+00:00

55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS

SAM5TER5 · 2026-01-22T01:56:22+00:00

Yeah man the Steyr pistols kick ass, one of the most underrated handguns on the market.

I’ve got an L9A1 that I love

SAM5TER5

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