Well we have been pulling every weekend now since late May. We have won one pull and have stayed very consistant for much of the year in the top 3 or 5 out of 12 trucks usually.

We have finally pulled into first about 4 weeks back. Once that happened for some reason 3 pulls in a row we for 5th or 6th. The truck was running great it has the proper track speed down the track but when the weight came on it just stopped.

We were very puzzled because the truck should be much better then that!

We checked things over and over and finally took the whole front differential apart and found the problem. One of the springs on the detroit locker went weak!!!!! a 10$ spring ruined 3 pulls!!!

So what was happening was the front was locking and unlocking going down the track. not fully unlocking or we would have noticed easily on the videos but enough to lets say miss half a turn on every rotation.

Well we fixed that problem and just pulled a 2nd last weekend in Brome Quebec. Out of 8-9 trucks.

We re going into these last two pulls (friday, saturday) in 1st but only ahead by 2 points. If we didnt get do bad for those 3 pulls we would be nicely ahead but it is what it is.

It is gonna be hard to keep first because the guy in second has more HP then I do and we are on a pretty good power track. The guy runs a 640ci schmit engine. 1300-1350hp.

I am truly happy with my engine this year! It was be rock solid all summer and I couldn't ask much more from it. We did some important changes in the winter and it really fixed the problems that it was having last year.

I would just to thank some guys that helped over the years. Koffles, DTHEMI, Muscle Motores, Firecore, CompetionWedge, Manton, LSM, TFS and anyone else I have forgot.

Hopefully I can come back on here Monday saying i'm the champ of the year! Quite frankly though if we end up in second we couldn't be much happier either. There are some big trucks in my club and the competition is very high and is only growing. The guy in second is new this year. Bought a old NTPA truck and then a Schmit engine and is always right on top.

Doug
DIABLO

Great luck, Doug and Team Diablo. Great pic of that huge engine !! How are the Firecore50 wires holding up? They look great ! Thank you. Great luck this weekend.

They are holding up just like I expected! I was pretty shocked when one of my MSD wires bit the dust! Funny think is we still got a 2nd place on 7 cylinders! It was a pretty bad track and probably the loss in HP might have helped!

Good luck this weekend!!

Good luck!!

Excellent Doug! Go give em He**....if nothing else, they know the big ole Dodge is in the house. You worked very hard at this and deserve a good finish. Go get em and let us know. We are all pulling for you ( no pun intended..lol)....

That T/S of yours sounded killer earlier in the year when you posted the youtube video. Glad to hear you are doing well in the tractor pulling arena and I wish you luck in your champiomship hopes. I too am trying to win my first track championship in T/D in Salt Lake. I am bracket racing in a sea of Chevys, just like most of us. I'm ahead by 2 rounds going into the last race of the year in a couple of weeks and hoping I don't screw it up. But my B1 stuff has run great for the last 12 years and I'm looking forward to moving into the Predator world soon. Again, good luck and go get em!

Good luck and have fun!

Best of luck! Always love seeing the Dodges whoop up on the other guys.