I would sure like to hook up to a sled just to see how far I can pull it with a 2 wd setup and a near stock 7.3. It will probably look pritty dull and boring compared to the others. I would like to see just a vid of one pulling but can't find one on youtube.

 

Actually one of the guys I work with went to a truck pull last weekend.

Dodge dually crew cab 4x4 with highway tires.

3 feet was as far as he went.

Truck just sat there spinning all 6 tires going nowhere.

But he still beat a Duramax SRW 4x4, 8" was his best.

 

Now you've got me thinking how far my truck would pull.....I'd like to see a bunch of us IDI'ers get to gether at a pull, or have our own pull, its sumthing to think about... HHMMMMM.....

 

3 feet!!! If that was me Id hope something brakes and flies out that way I would have an excuse to not look so bad. I guess half of the game is traction though. Id need a payvment pull or I might not even get 8".

 

Now that would be cool!

We have a local sled pull and tug-of-war here in town out in a field that has been preped with a strip for pulling and it's pretty informal. All of the diesels are pretty "stock" because it's just the local guys with real-world trucks. What I mean is there is no one with a sled-pull only rig, that's a diesel.
One of the guys that organized it is a friend of mine who is a DIED-IN-THE-WOOL MOPAR FANATIC!!! He is the city mechanic (yeah there's only one) and he will not own anything but a Chrysler product. He is honestly MAD at me for getting into Fords.
Anyway he's in his 60s and he has other MOPAR only buddies he has got comming to the pulls from all over the area. Remember these are not high-dollar rigs but these guys big-block gassers absolutely spank the street-legal diesels from what I saw, even the 2wd gassers.
I'm sure a Ford or Chevy big-block could do the same but these guys are building reletively mild motors out of 440s that make power in the 1500-6500 rpm range and that seems to be the ticket for low-buck sled pulling.

I would personally rather go watch the "good-ol-boys" run there home-built rigs on a budget, gas or diesel, than the super-high-dollar stuff that's just a competition to see who can spend the most money.

 

Whoops, forgot something:
The NP205 Dodge used from '89-'93 has a 40 spline input shaft which is the strongest version New Process/NewVenture ever made so I would think a built 727 w/ a married NP205 out of an '89-early'91 Dodge would be a pretty strong/durable set-up. It might be hard to get a Dodge tranny AND a Cummins past the "rule enforcers" though.

 

ya we need to have an idi pull. im sure i could do a little batter then three feet lol i went to some pulls last weekend and a stock f250 powerstrok with stock tires and all pulled like 150 feet he would have done better but that side of the truck was soft and no one did wortha crap on it.

 

What hurts the IDI's is the 4x4 class. Now if they would let you run a 2wd with the 4wd's, which anybody that knows pulling wouldn't let you do it, you may not fair to bad. Allot of times a 2wd will smoke a 4x4 on a track.