Diesel World: Getting Hooked on Sled Pulling
Engaged Media LLC
'Oct 15, 2019 02:51
We have helped with a sled-pulling series in the Pacific Northwest over the previous few months. We've always been a fan of pulling, yet as much as we hate to admit it, we hadn't done it without anyone else's help up to this point. Our first attempt was an awful show, yet it was a blast! It has always been enjoyable for us to get into fresh stuff — and concentrate on getting good at them. We ran drag racing almost every Thursday night for years, tweaking our setup until we found a point where we pushed our diesel truck as far as we could to enable it daily. That pastime is undoubtedly not dead — as you read, we keep an eye out for a standard cab (pure drag truck), but the old 7.3L that began its life as a tow rig, and later drag truck. Well, it's going to get morphed a lot for sled pulling. Presently, as awful as our first hook was, the holes in the pull that we dug far too soon are what will drive us to get good at this sport. Just like being beaten on the dragstrip and throwing more energy adders into the mix instantly, there's nothing like overcoming the inability to motivate us.
We'll play in the Work Stock class until further notice, but as I go, I'll be collecting parts, all with the goal of competing in the 2.6 Diesel Engine Sled pulling class. Both earlier in the plan have a new, reworked front axle and gear, as well as a new front suspension system. In the arrangement, both reworked front axle and gear are new, plus a new front suspension system. At that point a point of axle stops for the rear, probably just an adjustable steel bump stops for the time being. Drag racing designed the transmission and isn't set up yet what we think it should be for pulling. Manual shift mods and manual lock-up controls, as well as another converter, are likely to be obtained. It makes it more comfortable for us to play with gear/wheel speed and with more control and makes it much easier to pull off by having manual controls. Injectors also need a certain amount of love. For a little more fuel, they will get mods plus the right balance of the whole set. Then the turbo/air configuration must switch from the small nitrous 38R to the T4 unit — which turbo, we're not precisely sure of yet. Here we will be compelled to sharpen our turbo skills rather than rely on nitrous as we used to. A better understanding of compressor maps is going to be of great help here. For this, you can get the article in this magazine Diesel on the Rocks where Full-size trucks invade Moab's EJS and the Ultimate Go-anywhere Super Duty.
For now, we believe that's a reasonably good list. We're sure tires will change rapidly, and potentially a dual back configuration will come into play — and we're going to cope with the variety of other tweaks as they come in (the inventory bottom end will probably not last more than a season or so, so that's going to be a large one). We're enthusiastic about diesel engine sled-pulling and seeing what fresh stuff we're going to know from the sport about diesel. It'll be a busy couple of months, that's for sure, but they ought to be enjoyable.
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