2015 ppl 2.6 rules

What about someone from Kentucky that's pulled with a 24" hitch height this year, anyone care to share if its helped with breakage? JMO but that's the way to go. Where is the problem with actually dropping it if everyone else has to?
 
3 rear r&p last season yanking brush pulls with a 2.6 wheel and cover at 26". This year I broke the one I started the season on and thats it. Likely damaged from last year. I do have a 2.5 wheel and cover now but more than doubled the amount of hooks this year.
 
We pull at 24" in Dragon Motorsports. To my knowledge we've had zero R&P failures this season.
 
There has been many failures in bob even at 24in. at last nights event between 2.5 and 2.6 at least 5 trucks broke.

24in may help some but it's marginal and at current power level you get it to hook parts will break
 
The real question;

Is this what the 2.6" class should be?

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The real culprit here appears to be rather apparent. This is what happens when the intent of a rule is not followed, and the grey area just fades away into something that doesn't even remotely resemble what it should be. I keep hearing people say that they don't want the turbo rule to change, and they don't think the power should be restricted, but in the next breathe complain about breaking drive line parts, there has to be a line drawn in the sand somewhere.
 
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Limiting the inducer and exducer size of the wheel has worked well in the drag world could do something like that in the pulling world as well. Leave the rule as it is written but add an exducer limit of 110 max
 
The real culprit here appears to be rather apparent. This is what happens when the intent of a rule is not followed, and the grey area just fades away into something that doesn't even remotely resemble what it should be. I keep hearing people say that they don't want the turbo rule to change, and they don't think the power should be restricted, but in the next breathe complain about breaking drive line parts, there has to be a line drawn in the sand somewhere.[/QUOTE]

you are absolutely correct, however you will never convince pullers to go back in power and now with a strong 2.5 class developing I don't think thats an option.

what im proposing is rules to hold power at current levels and close the grey areas, and allow driveline to make them reliable.
 
Does ppl really need to convince pullers? Seems like they should make the rules that they feel benefit the organization and their member organizations. Yes this is voiced through the members. That being said, members from across the country don't plan a trip to the annual meeting to just vote on 2.6 rules. Most is voted on by pullers in the Midwest region.

At what point does holding the 2.6 class at a desired level make the strong 2.5 trucks interested in bumping up benefit the class. Isn't that the way the classes are supposed to be stepped. The top 2.6 guys who don't like the drivetrain issues can bump into the 3.0 class, the top 2.5 trucks can bump into 2.6 etc. I am sure in some parts of the country there are enough trucks to keep adding classes to shows (2.5) but that is not the case for all the organizations that use ppl rules. That is what is tough with a national set of rules that we all want.

PPL has been allowing more and more which has gotten us to where we are now, asking for more....
 
Also .... keep in mind, if the rules are forever changing you are not going to get "new blood" into the sport ..... young kids can't keep up or afford it. I agree, a line needs to be drawn in the sand that will work for the common person in pulling. It seems that most of the "big pullers" push the limits of the rules and sometimes even influence the change. Until we "the pullers" get our stuff together, the truck class will never move forward. Outlaw pulled the Iowa State Fair again, great turn out on the trucks but the fans are more interested in the tractors ... why because there rules seem to make the tractors competitive up and down the line ..... they are all with in 3-5 feet of each other , which makes it a good show. Thanks for letting me sound off ..... I think we just need to handle on our sport for the future of our sport.
 
Some tractor classes here Missouri all run the same turbo. Which I do not think truck pullers will do. That's one reason they are so close. Which I will agree it makes it more interesting.
 
gotta12v said:
you are absolutely correct, however you will never convince pullers to go back in power and now with a strong 2.5 class developing I don't think thats an option.
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I know all too well the class will not be what it should have been, it has become some warped version of the original idea, an idea that the 2.5" class seems to be following much more closely. The dollar separation to be competitive will drive people down to the 2.5" class, the same will go for the current 3.0" class being able to drop if open drive line is allowed in the 2.6" class.

I know a few people have tried to bring reason into topics such as this for a few years now, but I see it has been a waste of time.
 
Teamfreeman04 said:
Also .... keep in mind, if the rules are forever changing you are not going to get "new blood" into the sport ..... young kids can't keep up or afford it. I agree, a line needs to be drawn in the sand that will work for the common person in pulling. It seems that most of the "big pullers" push the limits of the rules and sometimes even influence the change. Until we "the pullers" get our stuff together, the truck class will never move forward. Outlaw pulled the Iowa State Fair again, great turn out on the trucks but the fans are more interested in the tractors ... why because there rules seem to make the tractors competitive up and down the line ..... they are all with in 3-5 feet of each other , which makes it a good show. Thanks for letting me sound off ..... I think we just need to handle on our sport for the future of our sport.
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The people in the stands at the ISF would rather watch diesel trucks than a crap ton of gas trucks... The biggest downfall there is a 2pm wednesday start time.. I knew of 4-5 other good running 2.6 trucks that coulda ran down there, and not got DQ'd for bs reasons
 
To the people who are against opening the driveline up. how many of you pull in the 2.6 class? Just curious.
 
The ISF is always wed at 2 PM and draws a big crowd. The fairboard can have any event draw big crowds on the weekends, be glad theres a pull at all .

What are the bs reasons for DQ?

Have your 4-5 buddies plan ahead next year, the pull will the 2nd wed of the fair at 2 PM.

Oh, and I second the open driveline ideas, and pullers don't HAVE to go with them,but I'd rather spend the money once!
 
reddline said:
The ISF is always wed at 2 PM and draws a big crowd. The fairboard can have any event draw big crowds on the weekends, be glad theres a pull at all .

What are the bs reasons for DQ?

Have your 4-5 buddies plan ahead next year, the pull will the 2nd wed of the fair at 2 PM.

Oh, and I second the open driveline ideas, and pullers don't HAVE to go with them,but I'd rather spend the money once!
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The DQ s were all safety equipment related. I was not there to know all the details but if they were missing safety equipment they weren't BS. If people would attend the Outlaw meetings they would hear the safety discussion and that they will be enforced. They even talk about how fast some people remove equipment after the red flag. One of the DQ s could have been avoided by that I heard.

I agree on planning ahead. There was a truck from Texas that was able drive the 10+ hours for the event.
 
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