Thanks Wayne. Yes, it can be embarrasing sometimes.
During summer a neighbour of mine came up behind me at a redlight - honking, waving and smiling in his brand new VW SUV. When the light turned green I had an intake event. He suddenly disappeared from the rear view mirror and I limped to where I was able to pull off. Not very good woodgas advertising.
However, a week later I was having a coffee with his wife on their porch, when he showed up from work. His wife asked him why he was late and he said he had to take a detour to fuel up. I pretended surprised and told him I had no idea what he was talking about 
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Did you clean the intake, or did it catch fire anyway?
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Today I lit it on purpose to avoid future embarrassments
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Is it just to light a fire in the intake, or should you do something else first, and when do you need to do it?
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Just open up to get to the throttle plate. Crank up on gasoline, maintain an idle and set fire to the throttleplate soot. The glow should spread into the intake. The motor will run very rich and rough for a few minutes. If the intake gets too hot - shut down and start over again when cooled off.
I don’t know about the S10, but I have an air flow sensor that has to be diconnected to be able to idle. With the air tube disconnected, the sensor will read zero air flow and starve the motor of fuel.
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Bob, I moved your question here. I don’t want to pollute Joni’s thread with soot
I lost track of the miles since last time I burned the intake, but I cleaned the tb manually late summer or 2.5-3k miles ago. The pic you saw now was a week or two back.
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HI- jo happy new year on your side of the pond. are you able too clean the intake soot with torch too throtle plate. or have you had too pull the intake for cleaning.
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Thanks JO, yes I should went to your thread. You should make some smoke when you do your next burn out.
I hope you are having a wonderful happy New Year.
Bob
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Kevin and @Bobmac
Happy New Year to you too.
I’ve never pulled the intake. Only the tb, because it’s so easy to get to.
If you scroll back 10 days in this thread you see the smoke from the resent intake burn
The sooty throttle plate pic was from prior to that.
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Okay thanks JO, I see now the picture was before the resent cleaning. Thanks.
Bob
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Ok thanks Jo im up too date on the little pickup truck intake cleaning method and timeing maintainace,Thanks i was about too ask that Questain before i noticed half the anwere, found the photo cleaning THANKS AGAIN.
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Big road + steep hill + heavy truck + small motor = hybriding.
100 mile roundtrip yesterday. Wife acts camera man.
On our way home we had two intake events. Cars behind us disappered in a cloud of smoke
Looking back in this thread I noticed last time I burned the intake was early December. Everyday DOWing ever since without taking a look at the butterfly. Not good. I decided for a fast swap to an already cleaned up throttle body this time and vacuumed the intake. The runners looked pretty good. Torch next time.
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Ha, you need no “biochar” for your potato patch. Just shake off the TB on the rows and you good to go
But it looks nice and dry/flaky so thats a sign of a good sistem!
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Thanks for letting us ride with you JO 
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looks a little whiter than the char in my intake, though it seems as if its no hurting the motor, mine was a little bit darker, though i never got a tarry sticking throttle, so were in the safe zone for tar free wood gas design gasifiers.Are you burning a lot of pine through yours.
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Haha, funny funny 
What I’ve found though, is that intake events are more likely to happen right after several short runs pullstarting the gasifier. What I think happens is fluffy soot gets covered with trace amounts of tary fumes and heavy enough to let a small flake of soot go.
Not a lot. I try to avoid both pine and spruce, but sometimes the size is just right for chunking and I can’t resist.
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Coming home and shutting down yesterday I reached under the truck to give an annoying exhaust rattle plate a good beating. Doing so I grabbed one of the pipes going from the cyclone outlet towards the rear tank. Just as I grabbed it, it hit me - maybe I shouldn’t - could be hot. But it wasn’t - it was dead cold ??? Hm, plugged. I touched the other one and it was hot of course.
Being hot and dry I have never flushed these two pipes - in over 3 years and 16,000 miles. But I actually suspected something like this was going on because I lost my rail temp reading about a week ago. Plugged pipe below.
And @Jakob, reading about your melted rubbers. I wish I lived as close to @Wayne
Two feet downstream my cyclone I have a couple rubbers I patched up with silicone a few times. It’s borderline too close to the heat to use non-metal parts.
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That plugged pipe looks like it could be a problem, LOL.
Yeah it is a blessing to live so close to good folks.
Jo any chance we could get a few pics that we can see the gasifier I think all that i have ever seen are from far away or real close up?
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Ya those boots have seen better days, I’d like to find somewhere to buy bulk silicone hose so I could just cut them as needed. Might have to make some phone calls to my hydraulic supply guys at work, they may know where to get some
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