NHRDA East Coast Nationals. Dinwiddie, VA. July 16

Sniper32 · Jul 22, 2011

That was one of davis offroad's trucks. One of the cleanest 6.4s ive seen, but he must have had a brain fart thinkin he could pull w that much lift!

Im trackin it was david but im tryin to place the truck...ohh well

cbrown · Jul 23, 2011

Hahaha. That king ranch was my buddy Robby Bryant. Trucks on 40s with 16 inches, coilovers up front. It has 5.13 gears in it so we figured wed hook to the sled. The differential housing twisted up, snapped the pinion and then spit the driveshaft. Truck ran a best of 13.8x on the strip, pretty consistent 14s.

Ive pulled with my 6.4 a few times, 10" on 40 with stock 3.73s without a problem, other than breakin the pulling hitch at rockville last year. Wish it couldve been out there but its sittin in the garage waitin on me to rebuild the transmission. Burnt up a suncoast pullin somebody out on the beach July 4th.

cbrown · Jul 23, 2011

Oh and yea...he is ***n nuts, we all are.

jimdawg185 · Jul 24, 2011

cbrown said:
Oh and yea...he is ***n nuts, we all are.

I know this is a dumb question, but why is that traction bar on top of the axle? I noticed it earlier in the day and thought that was odd.

eric.davis · Jul 25, 2011

I don't think it originally was. It just rotated at the mount due to his pinion coming up. His bars definitely didn't do their job. I would like to see a before destruction picture of them.

cbrown · Jul 25, 2011

jimdawg, youre right the bars are in the original position, the pumpkin is the only piece that spun around the axle tubes. As to why they are like that....Im not really sure. I too questioned it when he made them because its basically a solid mount from frame to axle. The front mount is setup the same as the rear, single joint. They definitely keep the axle from wrapping....i dunno if theres a video of it on the dyno at rudys floating around but axle wrap was retarded then. As for still being able to articulate and keep the correct path when the axle travels....im not so sure the design works. But it does keep the axle from wrapping and it definitely keeps it planted to the ground.

jimdawg185 · Jul 25, 2011

Oh SH&E&, it turned the pumpkin. If the pumpkin turned then the design has to be doing something right. It is just different i guess. That truck is really nice, time for some rockwells

Not gonna turn that housing....

Daryl@TDP · Jul 25, 2011

jimdawg185 said:
Oh SH&E&, it turned the pumpkin. If the pumpkin turned then the design has to be doing something right. It is just different i guess. That truck is really nice, time for some rockwells Not gonna turn that housing....

A bead welded around the pumpkin and axle tubes will be a big help on any truck hooking to as sled as well. Mine have been done for years. Simple and effective.