I have been doing some sled pulls the last few years and last year a guy I some what know started entering his 05 1 ton single rear truck. I got him once,second time he got me, third time his hitch broke and got disqualified (I wan't to beat him straight up). Where I run diesel class can have no cab weights or any front weights. You can only add weight inside the box. Not enough diesels showing up to have other classes.
Anyways I have found out he started putting cloride in his front tires I think he runs a 315 tire. what do you think is this cheating? what kind of advantage would this give.

 

thats alot of work to go through when there ain't much at stake. If the rules say no added ballast other than in the bed and you feel like ratting him out then I suppose it would be cheating. Just do tho honorable thing, build a steel pipe bumper and fill it with concrete and go whoop him

 

It is hard to say how much weight he has added to the front using the chloride. It is all in how you mix it, and how much he puts in the tires. If he mixes it like we do, and filled the tires correctly, he has added about 600lbs to the front of his truck. If he is running weights in the bed too, I would think that would put him overweight for a 8000lb class. Are there scales where you pull, or is it based on an honor system?

 

I wouldn't turn him in that would just mean one less diesel to go against!!

We do use a scale and my dually runs right at 8000 empty no weights anywhere.
Never saw his weight ticket. (got floride from tire man I know)
Usually just Dodge trucks enter and we just go by distance. But if Fords or Chevys enter we go percentage

 

definately never heard of that before! thats some serious work?!?!

 

Actually it is pretty easy. You could pump the fluid into the tire through the normal rubber valve stem, but that would take a while. You could also break the bead off the rim on one side, install an air/water valve stem, and fill the tire that way. The best way would be to put a tube in the tire, that way none of the fluid would come in contact with the wheel. Calcium Chloride is some pretty nasty stuff. It can eat through a pair of work boots in about a month if you don't wash them after working with it. If you have any cuts on your hands and you get the Calcium Chloride in them, you can actually hear it sizzle. Imagine having a deep cut and pouring a bunch of salt in it. Then multiply that by 20.

 

If Im thinking right this is fairly easy to do. We fill skidder tires and tractor tires in like an hour with a tires shops machine that usually uses alcohol or an antifreeze mix. If Im not wrong chloride corodes steel pretty bad if it touches it so he is running it right against his wheels -I wonder if they are aluminum?

 

sounds like he is playing the rules for all it is worth.