Strange and Stupid Pulling Rules.........LIST!

Tom,
Thats the point where you make the trailered trucks look bad when you put 20' on them!!:stab:
 
Around here some rules state must be drove in so the big gasser trucks trailer there then unload on highway and drive in with solid suspensions. I didn't know that a street truck OEM style engine came in up to 540 cu. in. and ran on turbo blue. Any way there are tring to eliminate diesels in there class now that a couple of us can keep up and beat them at there own game.
 
I guess this isn't the STUPIDEST rule out there, but we went to a pull a few weekends ago, Super Stock, and had to wear helmets. Which we didn't know lol, so there we were scrambling to borrow helmets and catch them out of windows at the end of hooks and run them back to each other lol
 
How about that rule I hear coming around on the grape vine, where stockers have to have driveshaft loops? *Cough* Nat.

:rules: ?????
 
I've seen jeeps going 4mph over rocks blow u-joints and send shrapnel at people standing around...I have no doubt in my mind that a stock diesel truck makes enough power to blow a u-joint when pulling a sled...and when a little kid standing by takes metal to the head and dies the rules will really get strict.

I used to ***** about the rules all the time when I didn't want to build or buy the safety stuff. I now drive my truck on the street everyday with full U-joint shields and loops, I even had to take the bottom of one of my loops off last week to haul 3200lbs of concrete because the DS was rubbing the shield.

I pulled in a street legal class friday night where helmets weren't required, yet I still had mine on, only person in the class who wore one, but if something catastrophic decides to break, I wanna be able to walk away without a piece of metal in my head. Thats just me tho.
 
Well I thought we were sled-pulling, not rock crawling....

At any rate, you'd think if this rule is enforced, how many people would back out of sled-pulling events because they:

1. Don't have the resources to build loops.

2. Don't want to drill their pumpkins or any other part if needed to mount the loops.

3. Don't wanna spend the money on loops if they only get to pull once or twice a year in their local area.
 
No more than 12 mph ground speed seemed a bit strange to me....
 
I was making a comparison, sorry for confusing you so badly.

You gotta pay to play. It already costs thousands for the track owners to get insurance for these events because they are high risk, when a major accident occurs and an innocent bystander is severely hurt or even killed, its only going to get worse with the rules the insurance company will put in place.
 
minisub said:
No more than 12 mph ground speed seemed a bit strange to me....
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Yeah! Especially when I've seen 23.8 MPH down the track, ground speed!
 
getblown5.9 said:
You gotta pay to play. It already costs thousands for the track owners to get insurance for these events because they are high risk, when a major accident occurs and an innocent bystander is severely hurt or even killed, its only going to get worse with the rules the insurance company will put in place.
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Oh, I know. There is a sled for sale in my area and we were going to purchase it then started researching the insurance for the sport and found out not very many agencies will insure this type of sport.
 
Personally.. one of the dumber rules I've seen is "must pull from factory type Reese hitch or equivilant" especially in classes that require ds loops, and kill switches. That stuff is getting dangerous. How hard is it to put in a simple rule allowing solid pulling hitches?
 
I was wondering about that myself! I have seen some guys show up with a 2" ball and argue with the officials because it's a "reese" style hitch. lol
 
Ultimate Diesel said:
Oh, I know. There is a sled for sale in my area and we were going to purchase it then started researching the insurance for the sport and found out not very many agencies will insure this type of sport.
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I can only imagine the cost of buying one and operating it, you gotta keep them booked up every weekend to pay for them unless you are very well off to begin with. Kinda like buying a dyno, gotta keep it running all the time to make money on it to pay for it.
 
Yes Sir, Sleds nor Dyno's are not cheap! This was a used one from like 1993 and wanted $23,000 for it. I believe brand new those things run upwards of $80,000.
 
If it has any kind of size it also needs a semi to pull it, which most of the sleds for pick-ups and tractors are pretty large.
 
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, we would have had to buy a Pete and a tilt deck to haul it around. Ok, sorry for jacking the thread.
 
Another stupid rule...

Street legal Diesel 4x4 8,000lbs-

Engine must be stock, if engine does not sound stock you will be disqualified. Chips, tuners, exhaust allowed.


Wouldn't exhaust make the engine sound not stock?
 
So no motor swaps...lol Seen a sweet 79 ford with a cummins in it pull pretty good last Saturday night, even beat a duramax I think
 
RSieck said:
So no motor swaps...lol Seen a sweet 79 ford with a cummins in it pull pretty good last Saturday night, even beat a duramax I think
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You mean the one that shucked the driveshaft?
 
Ultimate Diesel said:
How about that rule I hear coming around on the grape vine, where stockers have to have driveshaft loops? *Cough* Nat.

:rules: ?????
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Yep. Just another one of those rules that the little blonde made up.

I don't see it as that odd of a request for a motorsports company to ask someone who shows up regularly at events to take safety precautions.
 
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