is powerbraking bad for my truck i have heard a few no's and a few yes's..and also i heard my drums can explode..whats true and whats false?

 

Powerbraking is extremely bad for your entire drivetrain, but especially brakes. If you want to do it, save your truck a lot of stress and get a line lock to lock the front brakes and let go of the rear. I doubt your drums can explode, but you'll be replacing the pads/drums cause you'll glaze the drums and crack the pads from excessive heat.

 

The answer is yes it is bad for the truck. Is everything going to die/ explode after a few easy tries? Probably not.

I have heard of people killing their transmission, killing brake systems. One killed his driveshaft. But again that is the rare cases and most likely pushing way to hard.

For a good example I won a burn out contest years ago. (Back when it was completely stock), I was against 5 camaros. 1 ran on alcohol. The first round was 30 seconds. I got up to 100MPH. The finals were 45 Seconds. Who know what the speed was, too much smoke everywhere. On the finals the other guy blew his tire and fried his rim and did some fender damage. I got away with no damage besides killed tires. I got them from a JK for free anyways. I won $250 that night, and got the trophy to prove it.

 

I simply do it in 1st and don't shift. Only to heat up the tires before launching. No harm if you ask me

 

i aprreciate the info...i have done little burn outs here and there just i didnt want mess anything up because i dont want to replace anything unless its needed from normal wear and tear

 

and plus i need new tires

 

great job crazy love those trucks that beat those cars

 

Here's some pics of me burning out the old tires on my truck...

When I got to the parking lot and put the old tires on, I ran the adjusters all the way in on the rear drums and wasn't fighting them at all. It broke free easy and didn't feel like it was putting a lot of stress on the drivetrain, but it's still not good for it.

Like I said above, if you get a line lock it's not such a big deal. With a line lock, you push the brake pedal to the floor, flip a switch, and let go... it holds whichever brakes you set it up to hold, usually the fronts and releases the others.

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Thanks! I owe it to the bed being lighter than the cars rearends.

 

Yeah, thats a huge plus!!