Just got in the house, we spent the night down in Tulare and came home today then spent a few hours pressure washing mud off stuff, still have a lot of that to do over this weekend.
The event was good, of course Mother Nature was a key factor and she has been across the country but at least we didn’t have snow to contend with. If you guys would have gotten there at around 12:00 on Tuesday you would have thought no way in the world are we having a sled pull but I give mad props to the folks behind the scenes who worked there butts off to pull it together the track wasn’t that bad the first night at all, a little soft out of the whole, but other then that the rest of the track was all right. It was a pain getting in and out of the circle track hence having to use tractors and then a small tractor and ATV to get us out
again the guys who drove the smaller tractors all night hauling folk’s in and out mad props to those folks as well. Getting in and out was way easier the second day, again thanks to the track and pit crews, we were able to use the mule.
Yes our motor does sound different I couldn’t hear from inside the truck with the helmet on but after hearing the video’s I agree the first thing that I noticed was lots a steam coming out from under the hood at the end of the hook later when I investigated I discovered that we had blown one of the smaller expansion plugs out of the top of the head. So two lines of thought I guess, was it a weak plug or perhaps a gasket or o-ring not sealing and pressurizing the water jacket. I decided to head into town find a new plug and re-insert it with JB weld. I then filled the radiator and ran the second night; if another plug blows perhaps we have the other issue. Well we did blow another plug the second night as well
. There is no noise at start up or at idle or even when spooling I think the plug blows right after I launch. The thing is pulling hard, real hard.
Good seeing everybody and I was good seeing Russ and his crew again the truck looks sweet with the bar tires
Congrates to Cole for taking overall in SS we took the Modified but apparently the ladies who were handing the prizes got confused and gave the stuff to the wrong folks, they said they were going to get it straighten out we will see
I should have some pictures and video up soon.
BBD