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weekends pulls …
First I have my back-up motor in ShaZam this weekend, due to the
dropped valve I had last week at Bear Creek.
Iron River MI
We Pulled at Iron river Michigan on Friday Night. The pull is held
in their rodeo arena that has sandy clay, It’s not a bad track if
they keep it wet, really wet. And they worked it up for us really
nice. It’s the best track we had up there in years. Their track is
only 200’ long to the first gate, and then it switches to clay
gravel mix to the second gate at 350’. I was the first puller in
Super Stock.
When I hooked to the sled and started off the sled seem to move
pretty easy and when the dust settled I was sitting at 330’2” I
felt pretty good about the pull and left it stand at that. Next two
truck where a few truck length behind. And then My Buddy Dean hooks
to the sled and yanked it to the 349’9” mark, the last truck up
in the class pulled it to with in 4”of Dean which moved me back to
3rd for the night in Super..
In Modified class they tightened the sled up some and we only ran to
the 285’ mark with ShaZam pulling 252’5” and ended the night
in 4th.
Branch WI
I made it to Branch by 11:30 A.M. right on time in my book, Pull
starts at 2:00. Had a few issues I had to deal with before the days
pulling started, so I took care of them the best I could as I was
waiting.
Up at Iron river the my motor kicked back a few times on my starter
and took out two teeth on the flex plate and I now had a bad spot
that made the starter kick out on, So I’d have to help turn the
motor over with a big old ratchet and 15/16” socket that little
bit to get to good teeth again on the flex plate. This is really the
only time my Automatic Tranny Sucks….
5500 Lite Super Stock Class
I was the 3rd puller in the lite Class and they watered down the
track some using a fire hose off the fire truck. I went down and
asked the tractor driver to scape it some after they watered it
hoping to get the gooey slim off the top but for the most it just
filled the grooves up with it. First Truck went about 200’ and he
turned his pull down and came back last. Next truck up was Jack
Peters and he eased it off the line and when he stab it he pulled it
to the 290’ mark. Got ShaZam fired up and pulled it on the track
line her up with the sled and got hooked up. Figured to try taking
it easy and get the tires to hook right away then just walk this
puppy out the end like ShaZam has done so many times before with the
STPA’s sled.
Well it didn’t happen the way I thought it would,
I Eased it out too the 100’ mark and when I hit the go fast peddle
the tires just erupted and I started to slow down in speed and I
knew deep down to stick a fork in me I was done. ShaZam pulled
245’ and finished 7th in the class.
So time to put the weight back on ShaZam and get her ready for the
6250 Super Stock Class. I lucked out and was the 7th puller in the
class this time, And as I came off the line this time when I put the
hammer down I could feel ShaZam dig in and we where gaining speed.
At the 200’ mark I could see the ruts from the last truck that
pulled, and as the weight of the sled was slowing me down I was
doing the two-line intersection thing in my mine. And I gave it
every last bit ShaZam had to try to get in front of those front tire
marks. The flagman told me I can’t tell if you beat him or not but
your right there.
Well the measurement was 300’6” 2nd place for ShaZam and
Junkyard Dog had 301’ 1st place
So for the most part I had a good weekend of pulling with the
back-up motor, I figure I’ll have to leave this motor in for next
weekends pulls Due to it’s another sandy type clay track, But
we’ll have the good motor back in after that week.
“Hopefully.”
Dan
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