Anyone Roll Coal with a Tractor?

[jlgurr]

I remember the flame throwers. They would mount spark plugs on the exhaust tips to a switch. Then adjust the carb mix so rich it's blowing out vary strong gas fumes, hit the switch and blow flames 15 feet. Not so good for tailgaters

Hey! That's wasting fuel. Hardy-Har-Har!

When I was a kid we put steel tubes on our bicycle and wad a piece of newspaper in it. Light it and if it burn slow enough it'd look like exhaust.

When I was a teenager with a vehicle we would run a vacuum line from the intake manifold into a small container of light weight oil. It would make quite a smoke screen. Didn't do that too often though. Spark plugs fouled too quickly.

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[downsizingnow48]

Kinda like this
http://youtu.be/pg00FV9S6is

Yikes.

 

[Sprinklerman]

Back in the early 80's I use to drive a chevy step van , with a 4 speed manual . There was a bridge everyone would fish on . While driving by I would turn off the ignition while in gear and pump the gas , then turn the key back on while in gear . The truck would backfire and scare the crap out of those guys fishing . ( Stopped doing it after the muffler blew off)

 

[GreenYellow]

Back in the early 80's I use to drive a chevy step van , with a 4 speed manual . There was a bridge everyone would fish on . While driving by I would turn off the ignition while in gear and pump the gas , then turn the key back on while in gear . The truck would backfire and scare the crap out of those guys fishing . ( Stopped doing it after the muffler blew off)

I had a school bus driver who did the same thing. Us kids loved it. Those old 454's made quite the boom.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'm guessing none of you naysayers ever spilled a little fuel

NOT on purpose... AND I for dang sure don't spill any out of my exhaust on purpose either...

SR

 

[OrangeB2400]

This is what you need my friend.

 

[CowboyRon]

Back in the early 80's I use to drive a chevy step van , with a 4 speed manual . There was a bridge everyone would fish on . While driving by I would turn off the ignition while in gear and pump the gas , then turn the key back on while in gear . The truck would backfire and scare the crap out of those guys fishing . ( Stopped doing it after the muffler blew off)

I was guilty of that too when I was 16. My daddy had a Ford with side pipes.

 

[Loadstar]

Have you tried a trash bag over your air filter? Also try setting a tire on fire and rolling it down a hill.

 

[Garandman]

OP, what about adding an amplifier and some speakers? You could make it real loud.

 

[Mace Canute]

"Rolling coal" unnecessarily is your sign...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKt7owqVGlE

 

[Garandman]

Maybe just go with decals? Best bang for the buck.

I've been thinking: let's see, I can buy wheel spacers and tire chains, a larger chipper, or screw around with my engine so it will produce little clouds of smoke. Decisions, decisions....

 

[Brad_Blazer]

I agree "rolling coal" in the face of other drivers is criminally obnoxious. It is cool to see at pulls though and there may be one benefit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5jiSv31Faw

 

[square1]

there may be one benefit.[/url]

thought it would be that chicks dig it!

 

[chim]

There are a different things that make activities like "rolling coal" popular.

There is the desire to be a showoff by doing something they are capable of to compensate for not being able to do something else.

There is a lack of respect for others. Self importance trumps all else.

Any goofy activity that is given a cute/catchy name and posted on Youtube is copied and immediately becomes a fad, especially with those who aren't capable of an original idea. I bet if someone came up with a cute name for peeing down their left leg and posted it we'd have a lot of wet spots on our sidewalks.

 

[jlgurr]

If nothing else, I've got a lot of new links to some killer tractor pulls.

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[dieselcrawler]

There are a different things that make activities like "rolling coal" popular.

There is the desire to be a showoff by doing something they are capable of to compensate for not being able to do something else.

There is a lack of respect for others. Self importance trumps all else.

Any goofy activity that is given a cute/catchy name and posted on Youtube is copied and immediately becomes a fad, especially with those who aren't capable of an original idea. I bet if someone came up with a cute name for peeing down their left leg and posted it we'd have a lot of wet spots on our sidewalks.

It would start as 'Left wee on knee' soon followed by 'Right wee on knee' and soon it would just be shortened to just 'I wee knee'.

*grin*

 

[joecoin]

So, how do I stop my Ford E350 diesel from "rolling coal"?

 

[RDrancher]

So, how do I stop my Ford E350 diesel from "rolling coal"?

Take that big heavy right foot off the floor. Seriously though...some of you guys need to lighten up with the whining. Sound like a bunch of three year olds. My 7.3 has been rolling coal since 1999. As for shortening engine life? Yeah right. The F350 just turned over 323,000 miles and runs like a champ. If a diesel is equipped with a chip or tuner it's going to roll coal when you get on it. It will also have a whole bunch more power. If that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what to tell ya. Works great fending off annoying tailgaters and ticking off whining "sticks in the mud" too. Oh yeah...I'll be 59 in a couple of months and I'm not anywhere near slowing down on having fun yet!

 

[SPYDERLK]

I consider it the best indication that you are getting full power from the cylinder charge. My 7520 will not smoke black even when lugged down. I would like to steepen the fueling advance rate to the point that black smoke will start as RPM lugs down to 75 or 80% of the no load setting.
,,,larry

Take that big heavy right foot off the floor. Seriously though...some of you guys need to lighten up with the whining. Sound like a bunch of three year olds. My 7.3 has been rolling coal since 1999. As for shortening engine life? Yeah right. The F350 just turned over 323,000 miles and runs like a champ. If a diesel is equipped with a chip or tuner it's going to roll coal when you get on it. It will also have a whole bunch more power. If that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what to tell ya. Works great fending off annoying tailgaters and ticking off whining "sticks in the mud" too. Oh yeah...I'll be 59 in a couple of months and I'm not anywhere near slowing down on having fun yet!

I stand in agreement with you. Im not sure others understand that its not wasting until it smokes and theres a good bit of power available above the mfg enrichment curve before it smokes. Thats where the operator can have options to torque thru with some smoke ... or downshift.