Sled Pulling’s Pro Stock Diesel Class is super competitive; with a number of hard-charging trucks being built or classed-up in the past few years. One truck, in particular, stood out to us, Tony Burkhard’s Cheap Hooker pulling truck. What impressed us was not only what was done, but what wasn’t done. The truck still has a (reinforced) factory frame. It has an LML Duramax block. It even still (somehow) has independent front suspension, although that too has been heavily reinforced. So what does it take to build a competitive 3.6-Class puller? We asked Tony to find out.
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