At What Point Is Adding Weight Gonna Help?
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#13
shorter tires or swap the gears for more RPM, and yes there are 4.10 and 4.56's available now for Dana 61/71's from Randy's Ring and Pinion now......are you running in first gear in the transmission and not shifting........
how did you pull in comparison to the other trucks, if you always pull with the same 10-15 trucks (like we do in ohio) and your always placing around the same place or same distance behind or in front of the other trucks at every pull you got a good truck, now if everything is "perfect" and this happens, you got a consistent truck, now once you have consistency, you start slowly tweaking and turning and moving and playing with stuff, ONLY CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME, I CANNOT STRESS THAT POINT ENOUGH, IF IT WORKS KEEP IT, IF IT GETS WORSE PUT IT BACK, and keep a small notebook and write down stuff like track conditions, tire pressures, how many trucks, what place you pulled, what place you finished, all that stuff, so you can log your consistency, cause if the first weekend you was running a "lead sled" and the second weekend you was on a "drag race sled" you will have 2 completely different distances, even the same sled on different tracks will have different distances.......with a lead sled you need the low end grunt and gain speed until the pan slows you to a stop, with a drag race sled you need wheel speed then cause when the pan hits your going to eat steering wheel......it can take several pulls to get the truck tuned just right to what it likes......try putting some of the weight on the floorboard next time.......
***NO TWO PULLS WILL EVER BE THE SAME, NO MATTER HOW CLOSE THE VARIABLES ARE***
how did you pull in comparison to the other trucks, if you always pull with the same 10-15 trucks (like we do in ohio) and your always placing around the same place or same distance behind or in front of the other trucks at every pull you got a good truck, now if everything is "perfect" and this happens, you got a consistent truck, now once you have consistency, you start slowly tweaking and turning and moving and playing with stuff, ONLY CHANGE ONE THING AT A TIME, I CANNOT STRESS THAT POINT ENOUGH, IF IT WORKS KEEP IT, IF IT GETS WORSE PUT IT BACK, and keep a small notebook and write down stuff like track conditions, tire pressures, how many trucks, what place you pulled, what place you finished, all that stuff, so you can log your consistency, cause if the first weekend you was running a "lead sled" and the second weekend you was on a "drag race sled" you will have 2 completely different distances, even the same sled on different tracks will have different distances.......with a lead sled you need the low end grunt and gain speed until the pan slows you to a stop, with a drag race sled you need wheel speed then cause when the pan hits your going to eat steering wheel......it can take several pulls to get the truck tuned just right to what it likes......try putting some of the weight on the floorboard next time.......
***NO TWO PULLS WILL EVER BE THE SAME, NO MATTER HOW CLOSE THE VARIABLES ARE***
Yeah I got most that down... This ain't my first rodeo... First season in the pulls but alot of the same stuff (taking notes, tweaking one thing at a time, ect) comes over from all hobbies (4wheelers, Hunting, Fishing, ect) that I do. I have not seen the 4.56's from Randy yet.. Seen the 4.10's though.
I am just trying to figure out if th eweight is hurting me more then it's helping... So far I'm up in the air...
#14
#15
The gears would def. help! Did you mod the bump stops to limit the travel yet? Cheap set of home made traction bars will help to. In the first vid your tires are tryin to eat the wheelwell for lunch! But stuck in first gear with not alot of speed, like others said the weight won't help. Its just more to try to keep movin at that low ground speed.
#16
#17
The gears would def. help! Did you mod the bump stops to limit the travel yet? Cheap set of home made traction bars will help to. In the first vid your tires are tryin to eat the wheelwell for lunch! But stuck in first gear with not alot of speed, like others said the weight won't help. Its just more to try to keep movin at that low ground speed.
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