8000lb diesel classes: A thing of the past!

Sledpuller said:
AGAIN, I said they could pull, did you not read this thread?

Ford OEM factory stock twins are legal.

You can't take off any sheet metal for those classes, read the rules.

Rules do change- just not on a whim of a couple guys pecking away.

House is a good example. Complain, complain, I want, I want, then doesn't even show at ANY event last year.
Show up and just say hi Joey, let us know you'll be back when the truck is ready. I know you have a 100 pulls local, why do you want us to change rules so you make one pull?????


And sorry fellas, snow plow brackets are outlawed in almost every streeet class I have seen. We do NOT outlaw them, but yes, you have to make weight.

Now, preach time. When I started Diesel pulling, there were NO clasess. We showed up, and paid to pull for free. You guys want a class for fat trucks, SHOW UP AT A DHRA EVENT, AND LET ME KNOW WHY YOU ARE THERE.

Try and DO something for your sport, in real life, besides the internet.
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Plow brackets outlawed????? Must be different out west....there not outlawed here. Hanging weights are....Thats why I don't go to long distance pulls to pull. I'd either have to ride out there on a milk crate and a 1/4 tank of fuel or bust my a$$ and strip the truck down when I get there. Tailgates don't count as sheetmetal removal? No sheetmetal removal...Dang....And I was going to do that too........LOL :hehe:...yeah right. I don't want to take anything off but I'm going to remove my bed.........I was being sarcastic..... I told you the list of approved things to take off is comming......:hehe: ...Still I think if it is a street truck class, you should'nt have to do all that work to pull for fun. Oh yeah you said they can pull, but in there own class. Kinda takes the fun out of it. If I strip it down is it ok to pull sitting on a milk crate. I'll wear my seat belt.... Well fellas sounds like the days of going out and pulling the sled just to see what you can do are gone. I guess it hurts when a big bad black smoke belching dodge gets beat by a chipped Ford, that has the truck set up right....:poke: LOL
 
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Big A said:
Still I think if it is a street truck class, you should'nt have to do all that work to pull for fun. Oh yeah you said they can pull, but in there own class. Kinda takes the fun out of it.

Well fellas sounds like the days of going out and pulling the sled just to see what you can do are gone.
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Well which is it?

Do you want to compete in a class for money, or pull for fun????

I see, you want the rules changed to match YOUR truck, so you can pull with everyone else-for fun.

You make no sense.

Tell me what class you want to pull with, Work Stock, Street Diesel, or Super Street. You can weigh whatever you want.

It will be for fun though, just like the good old days.:poke:
 
Sledpuller said:
AGAIN, I said they could pull, did you not read this thread?

Ford OEM factory stock twins are legal.

You can't take off any sheet metal for those classes, read the rules.

Rules do change- just not on a whim of a couple guys pecking away.

House is a good example. Complain, complain, I want, I want, then doesn't even show at ANY event last year.
Show up and just say hi Joey, let us know you'll be back when the truck is ready. I know you have a 100 pulls local, why do you want us to change rules so you make one pull?????


And sorry fellas, snow plow brackets are outlawed in almost every streeet class I have seen. We do NOT outlaw them, but yes, you have to make weight.

Now, preach time. When I started Diesel pulling, there were NO clasess. We showed up, and paid to pull for free. You guys want a class for fat trucks, SHOW UP AT A DHRA EVENT, AND LET ME KNOW WHY YOU ARE THERE.

Try and DO something for your sport, in real life, besides the internet.
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Hey now, i was gona show in Ky till the clutch decided to go south once again, and the shop was gearing up to go to houston so I had to wait till they got back to get me one made. maybe i just need to find gator and four wheller sled pulls and go take my quad and try that out. Local pulls here is no diffrent then a DHRA event most of the top trucks are form the Area so its like a lil diesel national taste ever sled pull here.
 
Sledpuller said:
Well which is it?

Do you want to compete in a class for money, or pull for fun????

I see, you want the rules changed to match YOUR truck, so you can pull with everyone else-for fun.

You make no sense.

Tell me what class you want to pull with, Work Stock, Street Diesel, or Super Street. You can weigh whatever you want.

It will be for fun though, just like the good old days.:poke:
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I am kinda with him, i know i wont win, but if did place a lil cash is nice to have, but the main reason i pull is to see how my truck ranks along with the big dawgs of the sport
 
Sledpuller said:
Im still waiting for this list of 8500 classes.

So far NHRDA, and StEwRaT.

I understand NHRDA, as the Westys have a habit of bling blinging to death, and lifting to the sky.
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Sledpuller said:
Well which is it?

Do you want to compete in a class for money, or pull for fun????

I see, you want the rules changed to match YOUR truck, so you can pull with everyone else-for fun.

You make no sense.

Tell me what class you want to pull with, Work Stock, Street Diesel, or Super Street. You can weigh whatever you want.

It will be for fun though, just like the good old days.:poke:
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House hit it right on the head..........Thank You House........All I'm saying if you changed the rules to allow Ford factory twins, why can't you change them to allow the heavier trucks. 8,500 would be nice but I pulled in a 8,200 class and all I had to remove was the tool box. That wasn't too bad.
For all the guys whining about all the weight they have to add think of it this way you can put it where you want it to make the most difference. :poke: Next :pop:
 
Nobody changed the rules to allow twin Fords to pull in WS. They are stock.

They are not allowed in SD.

You guys have no argument, except you bought the wrong truck, and dont want to do what pullers have been doing forever, strip ADDED weight.


I remember a gasser guy who used to let his wife drive-she was 90pounds, he was 300. There was 210 more pounds to put on the front.

No puller ever thinks about the other guys in the class, they just want want for their own truck.

I have to worry about the WHOLE class, not 2 or 3.
 
Sledpuller said:
Nobody changed the rules to allow twin Fords to pull in WS. They are stock.

They are not allowed in SD.

You guys have no argument, except you bought the wrong truck, and dont want to do what pullers have been doing forever, strip ADDED weight.


I remember a gasser guy who used to let his wife drive-she was 90pounds, he was 300. There was 210 more pounds to put on the front.

No puller ever thinks about the other guys in the class, they just want want for their own truck.

I have to worry about the WHOLE class, not 2 or 3.
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I didn't buy the wrong truck. I bought what I wanted. It's not my fault the others are made like a tin can on wheels.......:poke: :hehe:
 
Sledpuller said:
Nobody changed the rules to allow twin Fords to pull in WS. They are stock.

They are not allowed in SD.

You guys have no argument, except you bought the wrong truck, and dont want to do what pullers have been doing forever, strip ADDED weight.


I remember a gasser guy who used to let his wife drive-she was 90pounds, he was 300. There was 210 more pounds to put on the front.

No puller ever thinks about the other guys in the class, they just want want for their own truck.

I have to worry about the WHOLE class, not 2 or 3.
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Are u kidding me??? ok so since ya'lls techs never answered my question i asked last year ill go ahead and bring it up again. Since i bought my truck with a CTD in it i CANT pull work stock, even though im damn near stock, then id have to add weight like crazy even to be competitive.... i have no problem with adding weight, water tank, wheel weights, i can easily added a ton of weight to the truck. my problem with ur rules are that when ppl want a real motor they have to go to the street class with a 160HP motor that is gonna be running against guys in the 400HP range.

And with the whole gettin beat by a chipped ford bein a problem...its not for me, my last time out i got beat by a ford by 68FT so i have no problem with that. there is no way i could ever pull in DHRA cuz my truck isnt OEM Stock but its the same as the day i bought it. Only difference is the hand shaker. i just plain think these lightweight guys are scared. have 2 classes and i gaurantee ull get more of a turn out.
 
8000lb is lightweight? The heaviest Chevy dually tips the scales at about 7500 with fuel "as delivered", and none of the Dodge or Ford duallies weigh 8000lb "as delivered" either. Like above our CC/LB 3500 SRW makes 7500 class with no weight removal. To compete in Work Stock, we grab all the tires and tools and throw them in the bed (oh, there is a camper shell on it) and got it to 7800lb.

As far as engine swaps not being legal in work stock? Please. That is a pretty serious $ modification. Work stock is for the entry level trucks with just minor bolt-on changes.
 
PS - No matter where you set the weight, there will be complaints. I like 7500lb, as do most the SRW trucks. 8000lb is a "middle ground" compromise weight. At the High Desert event, there were 31 trucks, and only two could not run 7500. 7500 was the biggest class.
 
You guys need to make the call of whether or not you own a sled pullin truck. Get rid of all your Lund accessories, Diamond plate tool boxes, winches, lifts, DUB's, Stereo systems, Aux tanks, and whatever else your truck did'nt come from the factory with and guess what, your truck will be under 8000lbs.

-Tom
 
i ran in an 8000 pound class yesterday and they allowed turbos but no twins i pulled against sum pretty nasty cummins. and i placed first otta 28 trucks. I weighted in at 8000. there is no excuse for a lighter truck not to weight to the limit. How hard is it for you guys to throw sum weights in the back.
 
Tcolesanti said:
You guys need to make the call of whether or not you own a sled pullin truck. Get rid of all your Lund accessories, Diamond plate tool boxes, winches, lifts, DUB's, Stereo systems, Aux tanks, and whatever else your truck did'nt come from the factory with and guess what, your truck will be under 8000lbs.

-Tom
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mine complety stripped like a rag doll is 8190 still has plow mount on but thats only 70lbs
SO i see now street diesel is not really street diesel, it sounds like puroise built trucks
 
Purpoise built trucks need an aquarium in the back. Ditch the aquarium.
 
how can the lightest dually out there be 7500??? mine weighes in at 6900.... and that is witha Cummins in it instead of the 454 that it came with. and my brothers crew cab long box SRW weighs 8460 with a 1/4 tank of fuel and NO driver.... so how is 8000 middle grounds? he doesnt even have many add ons and when it was weighed it didnt have the tool box. so try to strip weight froma stock truck, means he would have to remove almost everything that came from the factory that isnt vital to it running and that would make it not safe to drive
 
My 05 Dually WITH ME IN IT, 1/2 tank fuel, subwooferbox, headache rack weighed 8440 lbs at the pulls in Longmont Co
 
Well I'm glad that my truck & house's truck aren't the only ones that weighs over 8,000 stock. All I have is a lift, 37" tires, grillguard and a toolbox. I agree sounds like its not a street class that it is for strickly built pulling trucks. Why should I have to take off my lift just to pull? If the lightweight guys really did know what they are doing the extra 500lb weight wouldn't be a factor. They would set their truck up right and get to add more weight where they wanted.:poke:
As for the Cummins swap......so what if it didn't come factory. If it's not heavily moddified who cares. Thats when you need tech guys that know the difference between a glow plug and a spark plug......LOL
I told you it all starts out for fun then somebody starts whining and here come all the rules.:rules: Its sad.....:frown: All there doing is pushing the little guys that do this for fun, to see how their truck compares to others out. They say you can't pull your street truck that you ride in everyday because of this, or this......:bs: ....Yet it is tagged and legal on the street, and my daily driver. So I either have to buy another truck or mod my daily driver the way you think it should be to pull.....:umno: :badidea: .......Sounds like that is more of a expense than the cummins swap....:bang ....go figure that one out......
 
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