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Originally Posted by BigJohnD
I never really understood the tow strap thing. Too many variables. Put them on the quarter track with 2 equally skilled drivers.
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Put two trucks back-to-back, mix in a couple rednecks* and a tow strap and you will have a pull.
As to the variables...plenty from the gear ratio, to having a locker, different tread designs on the tires, different air pressures, and who is first to hit the pedal. Once you start to be pulled backwards, it takes more to overcome.
I once watched a 1500 Silverado and a 1500 Ram do four pulls in MI, and both won twice. There was a fifth pull but a blown rear diff in the RAM stopped the pull really quick.
(*I use the phrase "rednecks" but do not mean southerners. I have lived in the south, the north and the west, and have found that every state I have lived in, and I'm sure the ones I have not lived in, have rednecks. In fact, I do believe UT may have as many rednecks per ratio to population as does any southern state I have lived in or visited.
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Heck; many would say I'm a redneck....