venatic

Not a bad run!

HardDrive

Nice pull! Did you feel like the truck was to low geared at all? Just wondering if you could have pulled 3rd gear low range? Wheel speed is the name of the game and of course you need traction.The faster you go the more momentum you have when that weight box comes up. Less air in the front gives better traction also stops bouncing. Think of you tires like a basket ball,it don't bounce good with low air pressure. oh and every track is different, a hard pack track you may get away with higher gear and a clay track lower gear,clay track gives you lots of traction which will lug your motor down more.

Cobra51585

I wish there was a place where official results were posted. I looked on Badger truck pullers website and it does not look like they record the results for the stock classes. Next pull I will see if i can take a picture of the results sheet and post that also. What do you think my next best mod would be? Airbags, exhaust, meth? How about a full race fuel tune?? lol.

Thanks the rest of you too for all your responses. I'm looking into future pulls currently and I will let everyone know how things go!

Cobra51585

I think the gearing felt ok but it was kind of hard to tell after only one pull. I let out of the throttle twice because I felt a little of a bounce (looking at the video it looks like I felt more than was actually happening). I'm sure staying fully in it the entire pull will also improve the results! haha

HardDrive

Well if you end up pulling first (Test Puller) you have the right to refuse the pull and pull again that would be a good chance to try 3rd gear or if you didn't get to be test puller and wanted to try 3rd you should be able to tell if your running out of power within its either (whatever the rule is) 75 or 100 feet as long as you stop before that you can pull again. You def can run lower air say like 35 rear 25 front that will help that bounce. I'm sure you did not imagine it. You were smart to back out of it because that's how trucks break.

dcfluid

My recommendation would be to install one extra leaf spring in the back like I just did to eliminate shudder, axle wrap, wheel hop symptoms of the soft factory springs. That would keep the back up and help power transfer.
Check out my thread "acceleration shudder diagnosed by Ford" and my post near the end had pictures of the spring install.
Good work on the pull, lots of tips here to try that will get you that extra 10 or 20 feet for the win.