This weekends pull at Pound WI.
July 1 2007 at
10:19 PM
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TRUKPULR)
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Hey All..
Lucky for me I had a pull to go to this weekend.
In Super Stock I lucked out and was the last puller in the class, as it
turned out the track got better with each truck. And as the 3rd to last
truck pulled he pulled it out the end and had a Full Pull. The truck in
front of me just missed a full pull by a few inches. And then it was my
turn to pull.. As I pulled ShaZam on to the track I could see the ruts
that the last few trucks had made, and I was wondering weather to follow
there line or make a new path on my own. The track had just the right
moisture content to the clay and there was traction everywhere on the
track so I chose the line just right of where the other trucks ran. As I
tightened up the slack in the chain I took a bead on the end of the track
where I wanted to end up. As I eased it out of the hole I rolled it out
for the first 50’ and then matted the peddle to the floor and I watched
the tach got to 7200 and hold there, as I hit the 125’ mark I felt
ShaZam hook to the track hard and I picked up speed .. As it turns out
this afternoon they had a radar MPH screen at the end of the track for
there Pace tractor class, so you could see just how fast you where going
as you pulled, When ShaZam hooked to the track I was going 17.5 Mph and I
seen to go up and up to where it topped out at 22.2 Mph .and then started
to slow down but I didn’t stop till I was out the end of the track ..
FULL PULL …. Hot Dame, So I guess head back to the starting line for a
Pull off. But As I was heading back to the starting line I noticed my oil
pressure as getting low at 30 psi as I moved thur the pits. So I kept my
water pump and fans running to help cool things down during the break they
gave us as they reset the sled for the pull off. Tory fired up his Locked
and Loaded Chevy and got hooked up the sled for the pull off, As he left
the line he pretty much dumped the clutch and had a bunch of wheel speed
going for him and the sled stopped him at the 242’ mark.
When I fired up ShaZam I had 40 psi oil pressure so I went out and got
hooked up to the sled. I tried to repeat my first pull but they really
tightened up the sled, I rolled it out and matted it sooner then I did on
the first pull but I never even got to 17 mph’s and the sled stopped me
at the 230’ mark. Wow he got me by 12 ‘ bummer.. but it was still 2nd
place for the day.
Modified Class just plain Sucked.. The track was just the opposite of
Super Stock
And I was the 2nd to last puller in that class. I finished last in the
class and I had no oil pressure when it was all said and done. I limp
ShaZam off the track enough to let the last truck in the class pull and I
shut it down there to cool off, hoping it was just hot and the oil was
weak so if it cooled off I’d have some oil pressure to load it on the
trailer.
After 20 minutes I took a walk over and Fired up ShaZam and I had 40 psi
again so I headed to the trailer, But as I was heading over there the oil
pressure gauge started to head down to 0 psi on the front gauge but I had
5 psi on the back gauge so I got it on the trailer and shut it down.
This A.M. I headed out to the shop to see what happened with the oil
pressure in ShaZam
I changed tires back to the DOT tires and did a test fire up on the
trailer and I had 40 Psi again.. Now on a Cold start up before I always
had 80 psi so I must have hurt some thing, so I quickly backed ShaZam off
the trailer and into the shop for the investigations.
So all the possible run thru my head.. Spun Bearing no problem I had a new
set of rods and main bearings on the shelve. So let drain the oil and see
what’s in it to help in the investigations.
Pulled the plug and the oil looks new yet. Nothing there no metal, no
flakes, nothing.
So OK I have a easy check screen on the oil filter so may be that’s
plugged with junk and is holding the oil flow back .
So spin off the oil filter and check the screen. A few specks of brass is
all I see. So I pulled my distributor and sure enough the brass gear shows
sign of wear on the bottom, so I must be clamping it down to hard and
it’s hitting the thrust plate in the block and causing it to wear.
So only thing left is to pull the pan and see what’s going on in there .
So as I dropped the pan I see the Screen to the pickup tube had come off
and dropped to the bottom of the pan and with only ½” of clearance it
pretty much shut off the oil from the bottom and the only oil that could
get in was thru the little area the had pulled from the tube when it broke
off. All the bearing look new yet so nothing got hurt here .
So the only thing we have to do now is find a new rear sump pick-up screen
for a 460-truck pan on a Sunday. So I put the call out to all the puller
in my neighborhood and as Luck had it Roger Suennen who lives just the
road from me had a Brand New one still in the box from Ford in his shop.
So bing bang I’m all set up and I should have ShaZam back up and running
by noon Monday, Just in time for the pull on Tuesday night in Gillett WI.
Well keep you all posted as the how this turned out.
By the way I did tell you all about the baddest highway in the state of
Wisconsin.
Highway 180 from Marinette to McAllister WI is only 15 miles long but we
have more pulling trucks then we due miles in this area with 16 trucks.
All Fords by the way .. nice neighbor hood hey ……
Dan