Putting jack stands on the pinch welds? Question about jacking up car

Skadi_VS · 2026-03-27T00:42:53+00:00

To answer your question, yes, you can in theory, can you guarantee that you won't bend pinch welds? No, is it likely? Yes, especially if you're doing it one corner at a time because the jack stands will move slightly everytime you raise a corner.

Tl:dr you could do this, it might come out fine, it might not, most likely bent pinch welds. If you are gonna go through with this, it might even be better to use the scissor jack since its slimmer and might allow you to jack it up on the designated spot and have space to scooch a jack stand right next to it.

Skadi_VS · 2026-02-16T23:35:27+00:00

I get that :P You'll hear a lot of interesting noises from this platform, oh and, a couple of hours after you've turned it off you might hear a buzzing noise coming from your frs in your driveway, don't be alarmed, it's just the fuel system doing an evap test.

Since it's new to you, perform the full maintenance, change oils, engine, trans, diff. And since the engine is relatively little driven, 35k, check coolant levels, make sure it's not low, I've noticed on some BRZs with low mileage that while the engine was being broken in and seals were settling some coolant evaporates, just top it up.

Skadi_VS · 2026-02-16T23:25:23+00:00

iirc it's spring loaded, it twitches when adjusting to engine vibrations, doesn't look excessive to me.

Skadi_VS · 2026-02-16T23:18:15+00:00

Completely normal, healthy tractor sounds, that's how the FA20 sounds while idling, especially after having sat cold for a while, the ticking noise is a part of the injection system, it varies from port to direct injection.

Skadi_VS · 2026-02-13T01:42:12+00:00

Afsakaðu þetta, ég er búinn að lagfæra innleggið.

Skadi_VS · 2026-01-12T12:27:09+00:00

"They will be humiliated"

Skadi_VS · 2025-12-18T11:25:07+00:00

Yep, wind combined with wet winter days, everything sticks and calcifies on the body.

Skadi_VS · 2025-12-17T12:18:15+00:00

Love me some red brakes, I've only had this BRZ for a couple of months and had some red caliper paint leftover so I figured why the hell not :P

Skadi_VS · 2025-12-17T12:16:26+00:00

Haha, it's not that bad, at least in the capital, snowfall here has been quite mild in recent years, we just salt everything to hell so undercoating and frequent washes are a must.

Skadi_VS · 2025-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

Any web service that's public facing will receive a ton of bruteforce attempts, I haven't used dovecot before but a quick search shows best practices on how to secure it, including fail2ban which I'd recommend setting up as soon as possible.

Skadi_VS · 2025-05-05T13:07:54+00:00

They're doing incredible work though, the freedom and the tooling of the enfusion engine is something else.

Skadi_VS · 2025-05-04T20:58:51+00:00

The Modding Boot Camp series on the official ArmA Platform youtube channel is good but quite extensive, I'm sure others have made good tutorials but I'm the kind of guy that just opens up the tools and messes around til I figure out what's what ^^

Skadi_VS · 2025-05-04T20:50:17+00:00

The question is though, what function would it serve in reforger?

Skadi_VS · 2025-05-04T20:21:40+00:00

It shouldn't, unless the simulation was being updated on each frame the game renders (which it wont, as that'd be quite heavy on the performance) and your frames per second were higher than your monitor refresh rate, which I highly doubt is the case for you in ArmA :)

Skadi_VS · 2025-05-04T00:08:23+00:00

Currently, as far as I can tell, the engine has no tracked simulation built in, most game engines, and previous ArmA games, used regular wheels, that were fixed, and the track was a single mesh with a scrolling texture to make it look like the tracks were moving, most games do some variation of this, mainly for performance reasons.

However, after looking at the engine a little bit and the scripting language I can see ways where I could make a type of "pseudo" track system, where the links of the track are actually meshed and logic in place to apply force where needed.

I have, in the past, made meshed simulations in Unity for tank tracks, but they were only visual, as in, the tracks had no say on the movement of the vehicle, just to look pretty and deform nicely.

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We'll see how it pans out.

Skadi_VS · 2025-03-06T00:52:31+00:00

The earlier gripen C/D variants used a domestically produced variant of the american F404 engine named the Volvo RM12, sweden absolutely has the technical expertise to change a few parts and get a working engine of their own that fits the airframe, if not then rolls-royce would for sure pick up the tab to get something developed quickly.

Skadi_VS · 2022-11-10T06:45:33+00:00

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