What fun, I’m keeping my fingers crossed
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…and I hold my thumbs 
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Wife is at the station in this very moment… 
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Inspection went well, only one remark: rear brakes “unbalanced” little too low braking effect at left rear, so i got a month to fix it, and revisit the inspection station, but: now it’s road legal again 
Wife snapped some pic’s during inspection
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Awesome, congratulations, a pickup truck does look good with a gasifier on it.
I sure hope you bought a big bag of lemons
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Congratulations Göran! Your wife did a good job
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Thanks Johan and Jo, it was afterall just an ordinary inspection, but it always make me sh*tting bricks, especially as it’s an old truck, that been standing for some time, i also have a crack in the windshield i was affraid would render a remark (nothing i can afford at the moment)
Well, seems i need to buy a bag of lemons tomorrow, last working day before vacation and im going to Drive on Wood this midsummer weekend. Probably making a longer youtube video, with some start-up and driving
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Congratulations, you did it. SWEM!!!
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Congratulations Göran, yes the rear brakes seem to be a chapter by themselves on the Cheva.
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Luckily I don’t live in an area that requires inspections because on my current truck and the one before, the ABS valve body went bad and I just by-passed it.
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Congratulations!! Where i live the inspections are the easy part. Visit the dmv for registration, license and title requires a ton of paperwork. Im always nervous ill forget something.
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Preemptive Congratulations on have the woodburner up and going again 
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Thanks everyone well it feels great driving without gasoline again, wife and i took a trip to the supermarket, about 40 miles all.
The truck ran great.
Fuel reserve.
Little dirty start-up smoke, it has only run 4 miles since total emptying.
Total disaster! The supermarket had run out of lemons
Well that solved itself, the truck ran worse on the way home, not really bad, probably due to i drove it to hard on the way to the city, not letting the charbed establish,(i should have known better) almost home it ran as it should again, and temp readings looked more and more normal. Interesting with hopper temp readings, i haven’t used that before, so fun to know more what happens behind my back.
Refueling at a supermarket parking lot is nothing for the shy.
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It hurts my face just smiling at your post. That’s OK. I have lemons but I also think a mouthful of Apple Cider vinegar will quickly delete that grin also.
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You say you didn’t used to have a hopper temp probe, how did you know when to refuel beforehand?
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Hi Cody, on the chevy i have this enormous hopper, possible to drive 150 km without problem, so theres enough time to stop and refuel, just to keep an eye on how long i’ve been driving.
On my old Volvo with small hopper i’ve used to count 45 mins to 1 hour driving before refueling, if fuel run out to fast i felt it as a strong increase in power, which meant i had to let go of the throttle and drive gently (limp) to nearest place i could refuel, or just shift to gasoline and drive on. It was just a matter of feeling, thats whats going to be interestin with hopper temp gauge, read “fluctuations” due to bridging, wood drying, fuel level decreasing.
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I wonder how many have refueled the hopper at a Wal-Mart supermarket … @Wayne , I know I have not done it.
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Yeah that hopper is pretty big, how many liters is it do you think?
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A total “guestimate” i have somewhere in the back of my head is: 240-300 liters, including the cone, just down to nozzle level.
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Thanks for the post Goran !!
Hey Mr. Bob .
I can’t remember fueling at Walmart but have refueled several times at MacDonalds .
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