Kevin, I got to hear the freight train sound for the first time last year as I was closing the house windows ahead of a storm. It was a small tornado that went through our place but did a pile of damage when it got out in the open again. We’ve had probably 5 go through here in the 30+ years I have lived here but being in a valley they usually snap the trees off at around 20 feet and what snaps off usually lands miles from here. There were several of them in that storm front last year. I occasionally run into the damage while I’m out surveying. I still haven’t cleaned up the stuff here. I have other priorities. Mike
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OK mike good luck wih the wood powered truck debugging.Thanks.
Independence Day 2015. I bought a 2000 Cadillac Catera the other day … It was an old friend’s that croaked a year or so ago at 97 … It was made in Germany … I feel like I bought a UFO … Where the hell are the spark plugs ??? It’s a V6 and appears to have a double overhead cam and timing belt. I just epoxied a typical crack in the radiator. I won’t run it till tomorrow until it gets rock hard. It is already set and appears to have stuck well. I’m going to work on the black truck next. Have to pull the drivers side rear brake drum next. I will probably have to blacksmith a part for the backing plate. I already did one for the passenger side but haven’t installed it yet. A defect that may have been recalled and if not should have been … Shoot off some fireworks today … A lot of folks were blasting stuff last night including me … .Last year we didn’t hear a peep here … People are paranoid … Stay well, Mike
Built by Opel for Cadillac if I’m not mistaken. Rwd in a world of fwd caddys
That’s what I was wondering about my car. But I think each plug has a coil on top of them.
Intakes seem to be all plastic now. Do the plastic intakes hold up to woofgas puffs or burning soot out?
Jeff
Arvid and Jeff, I didn’t know it was RWD until I tried to back it up my driveway thinking it was front wheel drive … Now I probably have to grease another driveshaft … It has 79,000 on it and has NO rust … I hope the epoxy holds on the radiator crack. It’s a strange beast and all I can tell is it was made in Germany. I have to order a set of springs and those pins that hold them for the rear brakes on the black truck and put the new wheel cylinders on it … The pads should last until I’m forced to junk it as I won’t go out of rescue range with it again … I fixed the other backing plate thing today … I learned from the last one and did this one asap … I don’t have a computer to read the card right now or I’d post pictures … It’s been thousands of miles on wood and on at least 5 different gasifiers … Mike
Epoxy patch didn’t hold up at 100 mph … It cracked but will work to the post office and back :o) … A friend has already ordered me a new radiator … Of course I have to change it … Truck springs showed up … Good to go but I have to finish that job with the wheel cylinders and now springs … Just wish I was 20 years younger … I tell my kids to retire at 45 !!! … Mike
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HI Mike L,good idea,new radiator, I am putting like new radiator in my truck tomaro.all aluminum,out of 1991 ford f 150.nice big radiator.
Kevin, The work never stops. Just God keeping us on our toes :o) … Mike
I would rather keep mine pointed down too, Those GE sucurity systom sales people call me after 5 or six times signing,and telling not interested,i am thinking suspishis,I done told them 7 times the barrow works the best and the alarm is for the cops too come out later too get the bodys.SWEM<BBB
Kevin, HI HI HI as we say in morse code … … … … … … - I love your hinglish … It takes a while for me to translate … Mike
I was just exsplaining that i am sick of repeat calls from some idiots trying too sell or give away some sort of GE home sucurity systom, dont know what thet been smokeing,but i am fed up with them,then the next day they act like they are a different CO, and phrase the same , WE WOULDENT WANT THAT TOO HAPPEN, OR maybe i need there 16 second responce systom.Then i told them the best tool for breakins. The same tools they use for home sucurity.GUNS.and a whole army of solders,of coarse we dont enjoy killing as they do.THE elite and those that think they are above the law. THEY are mad because day TWO i told them i wouldebt buy any of there GE junk,made buy slaves from china.And that there warrentee stinks. SWEM
HI MIKE L//what kind of flex pipe will work for gasifier,how do you know when the stuff is rigid enough.
Hi Kevin, I haven’t used the hose yet that Jeff gave me in Argos so can’t comment … It is plumbed in but on the Studebaker. The hose I used for years that Ted Carbone gave me in Kansas has held up well … It will collapse from suction on occasion but does a figure 8 and makes a pair of 2 inch piped at the restriction … I got one side of the rear end brakes of my black truck done today before the rain started … Hope to get the other side done tomorrow and flush and bleed the lines and start driving it again … Mike
Kevin, The hose that Ted gave me was black rubber and 4 inches in diameter … I have driven thousands of miles on it … I bet Bill S would know what it is normally used for … It had aluminum connectors … Ted got burned out on us and is in retirement but I talked with him a month or so ago … Mike
He is doing well …
Thanks Mike L I got some flex i may use temperarily on my elbows around the yard for testing, till i get other pieces .Good luck with your truck,I got more too fix on my old truck,i may have too go get another master cyleinder,if this one leak’s down on back brakes.fixed one back line today allso, hate working with brake fluid getting it on the hands.
Kevin, I got the rear brakes on the 93 chev done done today … The damn safety valve is still stuck up so I can’t bleed them properly yet … There is some fluid going to them … I tried tapping the plunger down but I will probably have to disconnect a front line and mash the brakes to get the juices to flow to the back the way they are supposed to … fun fun fun … The radiator for my cadillac is supposed to show up tomorrow … Next car project (no woodgas on that one) … Mike
Hi Mike L .Thats what i usualy have too do,unhook the front line at the master cycleinder,and or prime the master,then try getting fluid too the back.a fluid pump would be nicer,too load the back lines,i havent perchased one yet either.The back lines can be a pain at times,getting full psi.
It will eventually get that BB unstuck … The new wheel cylinders are full and bleed … I made a muffler for it today and got that on it … It was pretty loud and proud with open pipes … Mike
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Kevin. I unhooked the front line the other day and it didn’t let loose … I have plenty of fluid at the rear brakes and they are bled. I pushed in on the plunger that is in the end under the rubber cover and it leaked some fluid there. I suspect the valve is defective… Usually I can nail the brakes for a while and get it to reset … I will probably just unplug the connector. I still want the light to remind me when I leave the e-brake on … I’ve been working on this German Cadillac … New radiator is in it and holding … Needs tires and a brake and fluid (trans and rear end) check next … At least there is NO, and I mean NO rust … I put 30 miles on it today and hopefully boiled the pure water out from around the spark plugs … Mike
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