Had a talk with a potential customer and a couple of SBC guys. This is gonna make you :lol:

Guy called, he was redoing his 7.3 ford and engine and wanted a new clutch
kit :driver: .

He had been talking to a local shop which had one that would handle 350 hp but he was :mad: about that and the price. Gave him some better info and prices. He call me later and told me he sometimes hauls 30-35K trailers regularly with is F450! :eek:

Ok so I called SBCfor him to make sure we where giving him the right product direction. They (SBC) had a single disc that would work with oem flywheel and PP for what he was doing and would handle more than 350 HP. :cool: Would save him some $.

He liked that and I think he might have ordered it but he then told me he annually, a couple times (or so), towed a ~42K trailer over the rocky mtns. . . part of his job. :banghead:

I asked him what he does with his truck. "I use it for my job, that is why I am rebuilding it." :confuzeld

Ok, but what do you tow in the trailer? :wtf1: "Logs." :duh:

So, you are a logger? :drop_mout Yup. :crazy:

Pullin logs 5 to 6 days a week on and off road, in good and bad weather, in the mountains (and over them) and on flat lands and highways, with an F450 instead of a semi :anitoof:

oh well :laugh_exp he is definately gonna need a FDD 12CB and SBC agreed :bounce:

hope he can get his truck together and keep it from gettin' trashed again :shake:


and this is all true :funnypost , makes some days a little :eyecrazy:


Anyhow, wish you all good luck with keepin your trucks runnin :driver:

OMG!!! Thats crazy, i know this is a dmax forum and all but i believe it, my dad has a 99 7.3L 6-speed and that truck will pull anything in low!

Yeah, and the DOT hasn't stopped him why? I would have to say he is a little over weight. Just a guess though.

Had a talk with a potential customer and a couple of SBC guys. This is gonna make you :lol:

Guy called, he was redoing his 7.3 ford and engine and wanted a new clutch
kit :driver: .

He had been talking to a local shop which had one that would handle 350 hp but he was :mad: about that and the price. Gave him some better info and prices. He call me later and told me he sometimes hauls 30-35K trailers regularly with is F450! :eek:

Ok so I called SBCfor him to make sure we where giving him the right product direction. They (SBC) had a single disc that would work with oem flywheel and PP for what he was doing and would handle more than 350 HP. :cool: Would save him some $.

He liked that and I think he might have ordered it but he then told me he annually, a couple times (or so), towed a ~42K trailer over the rocky mtns. . . part of his job. :banghead:

I asked him what he does with his truck. "I use it for my job, that is why I am rebuilding it." :confuzeld

Ok, but what do you tow in the trailer? :wtf1: "Logs." :duh:

So, you are a logger? :drop_mout Yup. :crazy:

Pullin logs 5 to 6 days a week on and off road, in good and bad weather, in the mountains (and over them) and on flat lands and highways, with an F450 instead of a semi :anitoof:

oh well :laugh_exp he is definately gonna need a FDD 12CB and SBC agreed :bounce:

hope he can get his truck together and keep it from gettin' trashed again :shake:


and this is all true :funnypost , makes some days a little :eyecrazy:


Anyhow, wish you all good luck with keepin your trucks runnin :driver:

I assume that's Brian? I'd bet it has more than 350HP cause I can barely beat him :eek: and it's a quad cab dually 4x4 :eek: . It's bored out and got a couple chips and I believe injectors :D

Yes, this is a duramax forum, but the post is not about Fords, it is about clutches and weight, and the impact on clutch parts. Many of the SBC clutch kits have similar components material for any diesel truck . . . so problems with one will be problems for a duramax also.

I was talking to Myojunk last nite about this. His job is somewhat similar but he uses a semi, not his duramax, for hauling. He agreed that it was way too much weight for a truck smaller than a semi. But there are a number of guys that do very heavy hauling with "non-semi" diesels. That weight will eventually have an impact on any duramax, power stroke, or cummins. It will also have an impact on the suspension eventually, according to myojunk.

Not Brian. The guy is not adding multiple chips.

There is a guy around me that i see sometimes towing a shipping contaner (the bigest one they use to put on ships) with his 99 ish dodge 3500 cummins. it scares me so much when i see this. i have almost thought about calling the State police on him. its just so dumb to tow that much weight..

yea, i pulled a 36' 3 axle two story barrett trailer filled with hogs all of the way for oklahoma city to bakersfield, aproxx. 2,700 miles with my d-max, and its an ext cab short box!! we rolled over the scales at the cal nevada border and the chp's about sh*t themselves when we weighed in at 32,764lbs. this was not my choice by the way, but when the boss tell you to do it and there is a $4k check on the line, you just say a lil prayer and go for it. After explaining to them how far we had come and that the show pigs would die in the 120*F temps in Needles/ Kingman area if they held us, they let us go with a good azz chewin. These modern diesel pickups are amazing feats of engineering, but they have limits for our safety and that of others on the road. But it does kinda make ya grin when you see that kinda power at work.

I have towed short distances less then 30 miles a 36' 10 ton goose neck with 20, 1000+ round bales the truck does a good job towing them. I just leave in fourth and move along right about 55-60mph (with 285's aprox 2000'ish rpms). I believe the trailer wieghts 6500lbs and 20,000+ on the trailer, and wieght of the truck is right around 7800-8200 depending on the 60 gallon fuel tank is full or not. That is about 34,500 with a 2500hd with a suncoast V. There is plenty of power to pull it with my mods, but I only tow that much a couple times a year.
Jon

42k?? He must have STUPID tattood on his forehead!!!!

42k?? He must have STUPID tattood on his forehead!!!!
with a f-450?????

He should leave that kind of towing to the "real trucks" before he kills himself or somebody else. It is not a matter will it pull it, but will it stop it. Just think, it may be your wife or mother sitting next to the road with a flat tire and he cant slow the thing down to get around her.

He should leave that kind of towing to the "real trucks" before he kills himself or somebody else. It is not a matter will it pull it, but will it stop it. Just think, it may be your wife or mother sitting next to the road with a flat tire and he cant slow the thing down to get around her.


unlike most of the female related or not my family know how to get off the road...... and usually most logging road at dirt......... not highways.....

I've had 20 1500lbs bales om my 33' tandem dually behind my D-Max. Trailer weighs 7-8K ,bales weighed 30K and truck weigh 8100lb+ total or 45-46K LBS :eek: . Didn't pull it very far but power was not an issue :D .

Trailer brakes, just a thought......