Ok Thanks Wayne.
I do not know if it is possible to change the ignition on my car, but it sounds to you like it is worth a try.
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Ha, thank you thank you. First time Iāve ever seen a US citizen adapting to international units 
Iām still waiting for us to have a conversation in Swedish
If you have several small wires coming out of your distributor you can most likely turn it and advance the timing. If not, the only way is to try relocate the crank sensor (unless you run a V8 )
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Hi Tom C, what year model do you have on your S10a?
It seems that the computer in my car sets the ignition regardless of how I turn the distributor.
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Jan; I have a '94 Silverado V6. TomC
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Does moving the ignition point do much to the power of your car?
I think my car is weak on the slopes.
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Jan; I suggest you just hook it up and try it. It is a simple thing to do. I canāt tell you if the change in power will be enough to satisfy you on the slopes. I have been playing with the V6 with an Imbert style gasifier for over 10 years; making changes after each test drive. I have yet to find anyone thing that makes a difference, that satisfies me. TomC
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Hmm, it was not so easy to access the screw to the distributor, and when I got it loose, the distributor was locked with a pipe pin.
When I broke the fork that was locked with a pipe stick, I could move the distributor about 5-8 mm before it stopped towards the top, I hope it does some good.
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It was a new record today, the car has gotten worse, and it has felt like something was tight.
I cleaned the radiator and the filter first, no difference, pulled together the plastic barrel again.
I checked the cyclone, there is usually a little dust in it, today it was about 15 liters, it was really full under the grate too, do I have to clean things sometimes?
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I was waiting for this matter to clear up someā¦butā¦
Are you asking if cleanouts are ever needed? Iāve seen you make a few. That canāt be it.
How often? How much?
The answer is, it depends. Frequent shutdowns and slow driving produce more char than you will consume. Running hard for several hoppers of wood, you will end up with mostly dust.
Since I donāt have a grate, I collect a mix of char and dust in the cyclone. Using a grate I would rake out under it as soon as char starts to appear in the cyclone.
I do nothing to the gasifier it self. Maybe knock down a few glued chunks from the funnel at lightup, thatās it.
With an avarage consumption of one hopper a day I flush the cooler every other week or so. More cooling area would allow for longer intervals. The huge hayfilter is not very picky. A few buckets of water every other month.
Plastic pipes downstream the hayfilter I flush spring and fall.
Hope this helps.
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Interesting! Just flush the hay, make sure the water runs out and finished? And once a year hay change? Gona use this principle! Thanks
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I ran almost 5 years, 12000 miles on the same coarse hay, with a couple of 5 gallon flushes at 1000 mile intervals.
I just emptied the filter and the hay could have continued.
My filter barrel is a 30 gallon glass lined water tank.
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Yes, thatās all I do.
I agree with @mggibb. Thereās really nothing wrong with the old hay when I change it out in the spring. I just do it anyway when I have the chance. Gives me an opportunity to dismantel the entire barrel and the connecting plastic pipes and wash them out as well. Itās usually my first springtime cold bath in the river
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I cleaned everything yesterday and shook a little on the grate I still had the coal in the fire pipe (I thought).
Thought the car would go well today, but did not go at all, had to go on gas to Hƶrken (my home village).
Looked at the generator and saw that I had firewood below the nozzles, I had also forgotten to close the tap to the condensate tank.
I cleaned the fire pipe and under the grate and tried again, now it worked again
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Thanks a lot. Any idea about the pressure drop acros the filter?
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I do not think there was a pressure drop across the filter, but I have to start looking for the fault somewhere, I am a beginner at this.
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I checked it now and then and it seems I lose only about 1/6 of the vacuum across my filter. Thereās some single piping involved between those meassuring points as well, so I guess it may be even less.
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Is this the right ting JO?
https://www.ilmanometro.com/gb/capsule-pressure-gauges/663-vacuum-gauge-100-mbar-diameter-dn-63mm-back.html
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Either that or the blower outlet is what I usually forget. Every time it puzzles me why I donāt get a good vacuum
About vacuum. Any luck yet finding guages?
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Ops! Sorry, I missed your last post.
Yes, those seem right.
If thereās a limit for free shipping - order two of them for me as well. Time to start thinking about a next project.
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Hmm, now I became very curious.
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Yes, I have a grate, but I have no shaker.
I have put a 2 "high ring around the grate, thought it would be enough, but will probably do as @TomC says and reduce the gaps in the grate, am a little afraid that it will be too tight, I have about 12 -14 mm ( 1/2 ") spaces now in grate.
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