i have done a truck pulling contest. between a 02 4-door 4x4 chevy duramax and a ford 4-door 4x4 dually powerstroke. they were both auto's. the duramax won. and he had just bought a set of new bfg's the day before! the p-s had an 80 chip and the duramax was stock. the chevy's have a hell of a locker in them! ford posi sucks. we used a 5/8 inch chain about 15 foot long we use to tie the bulldozers down to the lowboys. if its a auto against a standard, the auto will inherantly win. whoever spins tires first will lose. it all depends on how smart one guy is and how dumb the other guy is. if your both spinning, chances are,your just gunna sit there. lol. right after we did it to the 2 diesels, we tied a dodge dakota auto to a ford ranger standard and the ranger spin while the dakota pulled him in a bog circkle, it was kool!! and nobody cared about breaking stuff so nothing got broke. i say if you don't worry about it, it won't break!!!

 

This is great sounds like a new competition it could be done during intermission at the lawnmower drags or the keg races at the local tavern

 

i go to the lima jamboree every year and they have a tug-a-truck contest this year had about 30 trucks .the last 3 years ford has won it. there were some guys with some pretty bombed dodges getting pulled easily by fords with alot less done to them. ford and chevy have those four door long beds. our trucks look tiny compared to these, but put a sled behind ford, chevy and dodge and see who comes out the winner. when i had my 95 reg cab with a 5in susp lift and 36in tires bone stock i pulled a 97 psd with a 80hp chip and also a 99 v10 dodge long bed ext cab

 

I am a ford man from day one and I buoght this dodge because I thought the Dodges were better and I was always told that the Cummins was a better motor than the powerstroke. Well, I bought the dodge over a year ago from the original owner with 153,000 on it. Now, I have replaced more parts on this truck than all of my family's previous fords put together, been stuck more times than all of our fords put together ever have, get worse mileage than my dad's stroker did (both are 4x4s with 4:10 gears and five speeds) have less power, less traction, less comfort, and the Dodge parts cost right at twice what the ford parts cost. Now, on top of this, I have been pulled out of mud, snow, ditches, and you name it more times than I have been stuck and all by fords. Now, I tried to sell the truck (which has 3 year old paint since the factory paint peeled off) perfect interior, and everything usually worked when I tried to sell it and no one wanted it. The truth about hooking is this, which I believe 4-wheeler magazine did about 5 years ago, is that a dodge hooked to a chevy, pulled it until the chevy broke I think a transfer case on pavement, then the Dodge hooked to a ford and the ford pulled the Dodge around in a large circle until the dodge broke the front axle. Ford was still as good as new after winning the hooking contest. I joined this site for ways to fix my piece of 12 v SH#*

 

Sorry you don't like Dodge Cummins. Stick with you Powerjokes. I think that its all in your head about the Dodge being crap, since you seem to like Ford better. Why dont you just go trade it off instead of keeping something you dont like? Just my 2 cents worth...

 

I am a ford man from the word go. All I was told was that the dodges are better than the fords. Well, they aren't. My family all owned fords until I bought this dodge and none of us have been too impressed with this truck. It has had more shop time than the auto mechanics teacher. The parts are twice as expensive as my dad's stroker parts, I buy more of them, my truck has less miles, uses more fuel, and has less power with a cranked pump and wastegate. Now, I get stuck so much that I have been pulled out by fords more times than I have been stuck. I tried to sell the truck and no one would buy it with a new paint job and perfect interior. The stroker and my truck both have 4:10s and 5 spd and 4x4. Now, the truth about hooking is this: 4-wheel magazine did this about 5 years ago. the dodge was hooked to the chevy on pavement and pulled the chevy in a circle until the chevy broke a transfer case then the dodge was hooked to the ford and the ford pulled the dodge in a circle until the dodge broke the front axle. The moral of the story is that the ford lived to fight another day; the others didn't. The only reason I am on this website is for solutions to my sick ram.

 

It could be in my head but if it is then why are the repair bissl so outstanding? And why do I get stuck where the fords go to pull me out? And if I could afford to upgrade, I would have yesterday.

 

Richard, you are just tired of your family saying you bought an ugly truck!

When you show up to a family reunion they make you park in the back 40 and walk!

"Why did you buy that ugly truck Richard!"

Your truck is so ugly your daddy cut you out of the will!

 

sounds like this poor guy has been tooooo many places he shouldn't be going in his ctd. I had a 2500 v10 01 ,which weighed about three hundred pounds more than my dads '97 1-ton, that the only change I made to it was to put 285 tires on it and I only had it stuck twice. Once in a sand washout on the bank of the Red River,the rear passenger side tire was in the air about a foot and a half. My parents 7.3 powerjoke couldn't even get close to me and I had to pull it out once I got mine unstuck. And the second time I got it stuck was in a mud hole that was thigh to hip deep on a six foot man. The only saving grace in that one was the front bumper sitting on solid ground at the other side of the hole rained the whole four hours we were stuck there water was about a 1/4 inch from coming in the doors till my bro could get to me with his lifted gmc. embarassing

 

The truck is far from ugly. Actually, when I bought it my dad said he thought it was the best looking 10 year old truck he'd seen. It adds a lot of color to the shop at my house on a regular basis and I drive the gas-guzzling 1979 ford 1 ton 4x4 of mine.

 

The truck is far from ugly. Actually, when I bought it my dad said he thought it was the best looking 10 year old truck he'd seen. It adds a lot of color to the shop at my house on a regular basis and I drive the gas-guzzling 1979 ford 1 ton 4x4 of mine. plus, if i park in the back forty, then the ford powerstroke will have to come out through my tracks and then further to pull my stuck Editout.

 

I was stuck last night in my neighbor's hay field. my bro and his buddy were checking cows in an isuzu rodeo and got stuck in a ditch. I was called at 8:00 pm to rescue them and got to them, hooked up the chain, then I said to my bro I better chain up because I wouldn't move the small car. He begged to differ and tried to pull the rodeo out sunk my helpless ctd 2 inches so I unhooked the chain and couldn't get out of my 2 inch ruts. Since dodge put no place on the front bumper to jack, I couldn't chain up so I got my shovel, dug and dug and rocked it until it was sitting on the frame ( about 10 feet of rock) and then went and got my bro's 1979 f-350 4x4 flatbed (bone stock except for snowplow & bed, only truck tough enough for the plow) and he pulled the isuzu out with o slippage of worse tires than mine, the task that the 4x4 ctd wasn't capable of then pulled the ctd out of it's own ruts after 1/2 hr trying to hook the chain to the front end since dodge can't build a bumper then drove home for the awaited next time the dodge is stuck.

 

You never said what year ur truck wuz, or what mods you have.

 

my truck is a 1994 ctd std cab 4x4 with a 5 spd, limited slip, 4:10s, cranked starwheel, and cranked wastegate. Still can't get out of my own way even down hill on pavement with a tail wind

 

Almost forgot the most important mods: messed up front bumper from ford pulling power, noisy in the cab, blown speakers, broken factory deck, more smoke than a peterbilt, lots of oil leaaks, a lead foot (not much different than a regular foot), and lots of tow chain all at 173,000 miles.