LOGANSTANFORTH
1/2 ton status
Here this is the story about how this happened...
Soooo...I have a 77 Ford F-150 regular cab short bed that I traded a lowered early 90's 2wd Chevy for...I won't have the diesel truck ready any time soon so I want to pull the F-150 here locally...The truck has a 390 (460 setting on shop floor for after the 390 goes), stock clutch, NP435, 205 case, 3.55 geared full float Dana 60 8 lug in the rear and coil sprung 5 lug Dana 44 high pinion in the front...It has 15x10 steel wheels (5 lug front, 8 lug rear) and it came with brand new 35x12.50x15 B.F. Goodrich AT's...It has 5 inch lift on it and is pretty "soft" in the nose so it should do well going down the track...I may take the front tube bumper off right now and build a weight bracket that bolts to the frame...They have very open rules and I got to talk to someone that is running the pulls so I can find out if I need loops and shields and the hitch rules...Its a 6200 pound class I believe and I don't think I will weight up that much, probably around 5800 cause I dont think the clutch/driveshafts will like the weight...I am going to get everything right on the truck tomorrow then I am going to start building bump stops and traction bars...I am thinking of just locking the rear suspension and building a pro-stock style adjustable hitch and a reese style hitch for either rules...My predictions will be 1 of 2 things...The clutch will burn mercilessly or I will twist the driveshaft off the rear end...
Well, we decided to chain the truck to a big tree in the back yard and put a load on it too see if it would wheel hop bad with no bars, and to see if the engine would bog down or misfire and how the clutch would do...It pulled all 4 tires hard and the clutch held...Then on the third try the truck did a 4 wheel jump into the air and the rear yoke gave up the ghost and got the driveshaft...After we pulled it out and looked at it, we realized it was just a ticking time bomb...The yokes were touching from the driveshaft angles so I am going to take care of that this week...I am going to find a bigger driveshaft for the rear as its just a skinny 1/2 ton shaft and I will eventually twist it again...I need to find a 1410 Dana 60 yoke and a 1410 fixed yoke for a NP205...
Soooo...I have a 77 Ford F-150 regular cab short bed that I traded a lowered early 90's 2wd Chevy for...I won't have the diesel truck ready any time soon so I want to pull the F-150 here locally...The truck has a 390 (460 setting on shop floor for after the 390 goes), stock clutch, NP435, 205 case, 3.55 geared full float Dana 60 8 lug in the rear and coil sprung 5 lug Dana 44 high pinion in the front...It has 15x10 steel wheels (5 lug front, 8 lug rear) and it came with brand new 35x12.50x15 B.F. Goodrich AT's...It has 5 inch lift on it and is pretty "soft" in the nose so it should do well going down the track...I may take the front tube bumper off right now and build a weight bracket that bolts to the frame...They have very open rules and I got to talk to someone that is running the pulls so I can find out if I need loops and shields and the hitch rules...Its a 6200 pound class I believe and I don't think I will weight up that much, probably around 5800 cause I dont think the clutch/driveshafts will like the weight...I am going to get everything right on the truck tomorrow then I am going to start building bump stops and traction bars...I am thinking of just locking the rear suspension and building a pro-stock style adjustable hitch and a reese style hitch for either rules...My predictions will be 1 of 2 things...The clutch will burn mercilessly or I will twist the driveshaft off the rear end...
Well, we decided to chain the truck to a big tree in the back yard and put a load on it too see if it would wheel hop bad with no bars, and to see if the engine would bog down or misfire and how the clutch would do...It pulled all 4 tires hard and the clutch held...Then on the third try the truck did a 4 wheel jump into the air and the rear yoke gave up the ghost and got the driveshaft...After we pulled it out and looked at it, we realized it was just a ticking time bomb...The yokes were touching from the driveshaft angles so I am going to take care of that this week...I am going to find a bigger driveshaft for the rear as its just a skinny 1/2 ton shaft and I will eventually twist it again...I need to find a 1410 Dana 60 yoke and a 1410 fixed yoke for a NP205...
