Have you tested v-10 and 5.2 before and after driving with gas?
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Hello Jan .
The 95 8L V-10 before gasification showed 180 psi on each cyl. The spark plugs a very hard to access and I have not check the compression again. I have driven this truck for ten years and 50,000 miles . It does consumes some oil.
I checked the compression on my 95 dakota 5.2 L before gasification and showed 180 psi on each cyl . I can not remember if I have checked compression on this motor again.
6 years and 30K miles uses no oil .
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Thanks Wayne.
It feels a little safer when you tell this, I do not like at all that there is soot in the intake of the engine.
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interesting how the pressure increases with respect to the compression ratio
turn on the compiler because it is in Slovenian, see the comparison between compression and pressure ratio
Test of your Swedis skills.
Do not know what the error is, do not look like the text works, may be because I mumble when I talk.
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Hello Jan, the proverb āa picture says more than 1000 wordsā is valid and understandable to everyone,.,. .
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ā¦and a video - more than a million words.
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Hi Jan, when my hopper is that full I work a 2" or 5.0 cm pipe down to the nozzle area then drop pieces of charcoal that has been lighted with torch. This works great or me. It is part of my grate shaker tool that I use if I have too shake a tight charcoal bed.
My hopper was not full but you can see that the tool is all the way down to the grate for easy lighting of the charcoal and where I want it to light.
I place charcoal in the tube the pin holds it, and I light it with the torch and pull the pin. The hot charcoal drops to just above the gate for a fast light up making good gases to start on right away.
I take the grate shaker out right a way it will get hot fast down there.
Hope this tip is helpfull for you when you have a full hopper. I like you long torch tip for lighting up not sure if it reaches down to your nozzles but it is a great idea. A lot better than my short tip torch that I have to turn upside down and place all the way into my hopper. It looks to be a much safer way to light up the gasifer. I like it very much no reaching into the hopper to light it up.
Bob
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Good idea Bob, my burner passes the nozzles, thinks it works well.
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You mean your sweatshirt armpits arenāt black with tar 
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Oh they get black when I dig the charcoal out to inspect the fire tube, but it helps to put rags around the hopper rim when digging down deep. Lol
Bob
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I tried to drive on a little wetter wood today, but it made no difference, it does about 100 kmh, but goes down to 70 kmh on the slopes.
I try to find what happened when it accelerated so well a couple of days but do not succeed, have cleaned the ash door, the whole unit, the filter and now tested wood, without results.
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Jan, thereās also a psychological effect. On a sunny day, with no hurry, it seems thereās always power to spare. If youāre in hurry or in a bad mode, trying to reach your destination as fast as possible, your vehicle always lacks power. Have you noticed?
Jokes aside. What happened to the low temps you reported resently. Any explainations to what caused the temp to climb again?
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This has nothing to do with your gasifer directly. But indirectly it does. The other day when you had great results was the wind blowing if it was it might be the reason for your good results. It helped with pushing the vehicle along as you drove down the road. In the USA we call it a tail wind. It doesnāt take much to change the gas mileages on a vehicle driving on petroleum fuel. So it would most likely effect you on wood gas when driving.
When I am driving up and down the Columbia River we have wind or breezes here. There are highways on both sides of the river when the wind is blowing I can get 5 plus more miles per hopper by going with the wind or lose 5 miles per hopper going against the wind. Most people donāt pay any attention if the wind is blowing when driving a vehicle. But I do and notice when traveling.
Just a thought was the wind or breeze blowing that day, and were you driving with it or against it?
Bob
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Bicyclists and truckers really learn travel winds well too.
Curse the one way. Praise the other.
Aircraft pilots talk about this too.
S.U.
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No wind, 2 mornings in a row after lowering the restriction 1 "approx, and went back to 120mm restriction, on the advice of Johan Hedenberg, the car accelerated as with petrol.
What I know I had done, was to remove the charcoal down to the restriction and clean it, and that I ran on 1 bag of pine and the next bag of birch, a little wet.
JO, the heat went up when I put back 120mm, but am not sure if it is restriction or if it is the thermometer.
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Jan, just a random theory here (which I may or may not regret).
Removing the charcoal all the way down, some of the ash cone may have been removed as well. Filling up with fresh and clean char again, itās not only clean and without ash mixed in. Itās even a slightly larger volume of pure charcoal - for a while. A couple of rides later the ash cone is back to its normal size and shape and the charbed slightly contaminated with ash again. Iām just guessing here. Could this be it?
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Yes I notice this any time I have messed with my charcoal going pass the nozzles area and have dug down into the restiction area. It has messed up my ash cone and char bed big time. Had to run the gasifer and let it make it own ash cone establishing a ash insulation and char bed that is efficient and effective in gas production.
They are like a woman, you can not clean or place the furnishings in the house. She knows where everything must go and needs to be to work in her house. Donāt walk in with dirty boots and hands messing every thing up. It will no go well for you. Woman = gasifer restriction/grate area, makes sense to me.
Bob
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I do not think so, I have tried afterwards to do the same thing, clean down to restriction, without getting the same result.
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I have never noticed any major difference in my unit after cleaning it, it usually gets better when the ash is gone.
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