Ford pulling truck's!!
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the 60's will work in the front for any class. we run one, we use an ARB airlocker, but that is mostly so you can unloak the front so it will steer.
As far as the body, my stock truck is pretty rough, you fight the wheel a lot more, since you dont have the weight advantage.
Like I said, you can start where you like, we all started in stock, but when i add all the dollars spent, even now, we could have built a Super Modified blower truck for what's in the prostocks.
About one year is all you can get around here on a hot running stock truck, before they start ruleing you out.
But there are a lot less rules in stock class, so lots of room for mods. You could put heavier axles under a stock truck most anywhere.
Th etoughest places ussually worry about headers and intakes, and vaccum, though Ive never been checked. Anouther advantage to the stockers, is that they ussually run dead last, so everyone else is about gone, and every one in the class is ready to go home, so while they may gripe, they ussually dont check anyone, even if they think the are illegal. Which its hard to be illegal with the limited rules.
I have never seen cubic inch limits, IE. So I run a stroker. I do run cast iron intake and exhaust manifolds, so it is choking, but when anyone looks under the hood, all they see is what looks like a 429 scj in stock form. The one place with the most hooks, allows headers(with mufflers) and they are talking about aluminum intakes now. If they do that, I will have the same setup the prostocks were running 2 years ago, minus the dominator carb, and adding a few cid. If I slap the old PS headers and intake on it, and one of the rare holley three barrel 1000 cfm carbs on it, I'll be legal, and truning over 8000 rpm. BUT, they will surely find some way to ban me.
That swhy even the NTPA has a little rule that says something like, they can remove any vehicle that appears to be over dominating the competition at their discretion. Which they have never done, but what it means is, if you can go out and win everytime, but everything they ever check on you is legal, they can still bar you for the sake of the competition.
If I can help out let me know. We will have a chance to pull the stock truck this saturady, and again the week after. I think we found out were our problems where. They had the truck on the lift, and noticed that the front driveshaft was hitting the crossmember when the front end was raised up like that. I am surmising, that when ever it was on a good track, and a heavy sled, it was raising the front, and running out of travel. Not sure yet, but at least we found something that could be the cause. Better then sitting around confused as to why such a long heavy truck was giving us such fits. I tried almost every trick, and it never got better. I have not added any weight. Some people will fill the fenders bumpers and such with concret. I havnt done any of this, but I may add a tube bumper and brush guard this week.
As far as the body, my stock truck is pretty rough, you fight the wheel a lot more, since you dont have the weight advantage.
Like I said, you can start where you like, we all started in stock, but when i add all the dollars spent, even now, we could have built a Super Modified blower truck for what's in the prostocks.
About one year is all you can get around here on a hot running stock truck, before they start ruleing you out.
But there are a lot less rules in stock class, so lots of room for mods. You could put heavier axles under a stock truck most anywhere.
Th etoughest places ussually worry about headers and intakes, and vaccum, though Ive never been checked. Anouther advantage to the stockers, is that they ussually run dead last, so everyone else is about gone, and every one in the class is ready to go home, so while they may gripe, they ussually dont check anyone, even if they think the are illegal. Which its hard to be illegal with the limited rules.
I have never seen cubic inch limits, IE. So I run a stroker. I do run cast iron intake and exhaust manifolds, so it is choking, but when anyone looks under the hood, all they see is what looks like a 429 scj in stock form. The one place with the most hooks, allows headers(with mufflers) and they are talking about aluminum intakes now. If they do that, I will have the same setup the prostocks were running 2 years ago, minus the dominator carb, and adding a few cid. If I slap the old PS headers and intake on it, and one of the rare holley three barrel 1000 cfm carbs on it, I'll be legal, and truning over 8000 rpm. BUT, they will surely find some way to ban me.
That swhy even the NTPA has a little rule that says something like, they can remove any vehicle that appears to be over dominating the competition at their discretion. Which they have never done, but what it means is, if you can go out and win everytime, but everything they ever check on you is legal, they can still bar you for the sake of the competition.
If I can help out let me know. We will have a chance to pull the stock truck this saturady, and again the week after. I think we found out were our problems where. They had the truck on the lift, and noticed that the front driveshaft was hitting the crossmember when the front end was raised up like that. I am surmising, that when ever it was on a good track, and a heavy sled, it was raising the front, and running out of travel. Not sure yet, but at least we found something that could be the cause. Better then sitting around confused as to why such a long heavy truck was giving us such fits. I tried almost every trick, and it never got better. I have not added any weight. Some people will fill the fenders bumpers and such with concret. I havnt done any of this, but I may add a tube bumper and brush guard this week.
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Reddog,I will be talking to yea alot on the stock class as soon as I get started.I love the way your F250(stocker)pulling a sled look's!The 26th,and 29th is the next truck/tractor pull real close to me,and i might give it a shot with my 79 F350 4x4.I still have time to enter.But I might just be a spectator,and get more in depth with pulling.Im defantaly pulling next year though.I look forward for any tip's,and help getting started.Thank you Reddog.
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