Sled Puller's success explained

[HoleshotHolset]

Excellent job, Wayne!!



:-laf



Matt

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Originally posted by Doc Tinker

You forgot the Amsoil band on the cigar.



Doc

gene peeled it off and stuck it on the ash tray like a label on a long neck beer. He didnt want to burn the amsoil name.

 

[Hammer]

I will have to admit this is a pretty good one Uncle Fest. I am just glad I didn't get dragged into it by Wayne when he did the edit on the photo,hehehehehehe.



BTW,Wayne. . I do now understand the transmission/clutch episodes after TiM. Since that weekend has now passed you will forever be now be known as "Mr. StickShift"... LOL. Nice meeting you out there... ... ... . Andy

 

[HoleshotHolset]

I have NEVER seen anyone launch a 4x4 NV-4500 truck as hard as Wayne does...



Matt

 

[Hammer]

"Jff24Gordn=The Ronnie Sox of the CTD Owners"



I'd also have to add that the Chrysler Engineers should BUY his truck back and look it over good. If takes a thumping like that out of the hole in 4wd somehow DC's secret HP parts slipped into his truck. . LOL... ... Andy

 

[HoleshotHolset]

They ought to examine the truck and hire him to do quality assurance and durability testing on their drivetrains.



Matt

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Andy and Matt, you have it all wrong. I was BABYING my truck at TiM. I never did what I would call "being hard" on my transmission the whole wekend. I wanted to drive home. That and I had screwed up 4th synchro and it had 2k miles on it. I should have enough time from now to Schieds to get my other one together and bring it and a jack to Terra Haute and try to break it.

Originally posted by HoleshotHolset

They ought to examine the truck and hire him to do quality assurance and durability testing on their drivetrains.

I have been there. They wouldnt let me (or Eric McB) drive our trucks on the offorad course. The truck I did drive was already broke, so there was little else I could do.

Ronnie Sox

... ... . But perhaps the best measuring stick for Sox's shifting talents came in 1973, the year that everybody switched to the clutchless Lenco transmissions. Many teams cited the reduced breakage as the primary reason for the move, but just about every driver went quicker with a Lenco, some picking up as much as a tenth of a second. Sox, by contrast, was the only driver whose car slowed down with a Lenco, losing a very measurable . 04-second.

The science of power shifting, which is the act of changing gears with a manual transmission with the engine at wide-open throttle, is a lost art in today's world of air-shifted two-speed Powerglides (now 47 and 48 series automatics). Power shifting requires the hand-foot coordination of a tap-dancing juggler because the timing of the hard yank of the shift lever must be carefully synchronized with the minimal application of the clutch pedal to prevent the over-revving of the engine. During the 1960s and early 1970s, there were a number of excellent four-speed drivers on the scene, including Don Nicholson, Butch Leal, Herb McClandless, Arlen Vanke, Bill Jenkins, and many others, but none could boast that they were better than Sox... ...

Anybody here with a 306hp dyno sheet from Dave Dunbars dyno that can beat 15. 182 even with a lightning fast shifting automatic? I have a whole pile if 15. 18 and 15. 19 slips.



that ended up as a pretty long post, didnt it?

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Needless to say, I am very honered by your words Andy. And I'm sure Ronnie is equily offended.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

You weren't babying the truck last year... I was right behind you in the staging lanes (readying myself for more embarassment... ) and you left the line HARD.



I didn't see you launch this year...



Matt

 

[Jff24Gordn]

It wasnt that hard of a launch, I wasnt using my patent pending Joe D sachs clutch launch that broke my drivers seat. If anybody has video of me durring 2002 at TDR Nationals or Schides, those were hard launches. You can look at every spline in that transmission and see the twist in it. Or the way the sides of the gear teeth bulge out from the shock load.

This year I was pulling a 2. 6 60' and 16. 9 1/4 at TiM. Yea, lightning fast.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Note to self: Don't let Wayne drive my truck... :-laf



Matt

 

[fest3er]

Originally posted by HoleshotHolset
Note to self: Don't let Wayne drive my truck... :-laf

Matt

Matt, it's not the hard launch that does the damage. It's the 25 degree list to larboard that does it. Maybe Wayne should take up sled pulling.

N

 

[HoleshotHolset]

I had to lookup 'larboard', Neal.



"The counterpart to starboard is larboard, which derives from ladde and bord. American Heritage has ladde as the past participle of the verb "to lead. " The left side of the ship would be led by the right, where the rudder was. Most other sources derive it from laden , meaning "to load. " The left-hand side being the side put to the dock for loading cargo. The OED2 says the origin is undetermined, but notes that in Old English, the term was bæcbord, meaning the side to which the steersman kept his back. This term did not survive into Middle English, being replaced by larboard "



Leaning the truck in that direction would sure help to keep the left-front wheel on the ground... no need to hang weights!



Matt