DOW Driving Habits

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#461

JO, was that Rabbit only front wheel drive? With that much weight in the back, I guess you would have to stay on good roads?

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#462

Don, FWD only. I moved the driver’s seat forward and bent over the steering wheel. The front tires just barely touched the ground :smile:
Fortunately mostly downhill until I reached the pavement :smile:

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#463

JO- you are too funny! :grinning: :smile:

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#464

I had an opportunity to put a few miles on the Dakota this morning :slightly_smiling_face:

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#465

Thanks for the ride in the wood gas powed dakota. Every vidio you show builds our confidence in your wood gasifier designs. And the extra power the dakota trucks 318 that helps get up too speed much better power too weight ratio then most trucks.

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#466

Yall jump in and we will go for ride :smiley:

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#467

Thanks for the ride Wayne and Lisa. You were pretty talkative this time. Didn’t even have time for Lisa to sing or nu’thin. I love the throaty rumble of that V-8. Sounds better than my wimpy 4 cylinder S10.

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#468

Thanks for the ride, Lisa and Wayne. I could hear a sigh from Lisa half way into the video, but I can guarentee there’s none from the DOW community.

When I was swapping the tb yesterday a guy stopped by and asked me if I could build him a gasifier. I told him no problem, but that he could probably not afford me teaching him how to use it.
I suggested to start reading, watching videos on DOW and get back to me in a year or two.

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#469

Wayne, you sure set the standard for the rest of us.
Thanks for the ride.

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#470

Great video Mr Wayne.
You show now what can be done the best.

One problem though Wayne and Chris Saenz . . . . no CC closed captions enable with this.
I tried from my end viewing on-site and as YouTube viewed. No success enabling CC.
I slow brain audio anymore and most of the English-as-a-second language international members will not be able to see/hear Waynes excellent instructive commentary.

And thank you very much Mz Lisa for your enduring patience with with your hubby’s endeavors. Good to hear your smiling voice too.

Best Regards
Steve unruh

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#471

Hi Wayne, I will take a long ride with you and Lisa any time. She does a great job on the camera. Thanks again for asking us all along.
Bob

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#472

Actually, I used to think that was the only cause also. But I have now been finding another one. We have switched almost completely to hardwood kiln dried maple and cherry with no bark cabinet factory scraps for fuel. very dry. After about 5000 miles my throttle plate will begin to stick. For a long time I thought it was making tar. Finally, when we opened it up to clean it, it appears to be some kind of chemical surface level oxidation or other corrosion of the aluminum housing around the throttle plate. No tar in sight. Wire wheel, carb cleaner, heat, scrub it down and clean up, polish and it goes another 5000 miles.

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#473

Now Wayne, that ain’t quite true is it? A couple miles from the house only gets you close to the end of the driveway. :grin:

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#474

White spots in the soot? Looks like mold? If that’s the case I have a theory of my own. Happened a lot with the Rabbit. Unsufficient cooling area. Not enough condensation catched prior to entering the tb. Wet woodgas - more oxidation. To the point where the throttle plate was thin enough to brake.
(Your rail flushing intervalls caught my attention the other day) :smile:

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#475

Thanks for another country drive on wood gas power, your wood gasifier plans have many great building designs. Good clean fuel compared too gasoline or diesel for sure. and the camera was clear for rainy weather.

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#476

That’s probably it. I notice it more when the hay filter gets a little too full or the low spots in the gas pipes get too full of water. They have 2 spots where they can form a trap and fill with downstream condensate. The gas probably then picks up some water vapor passing through…and yes, I/we probably need to wash rails more often. We just use these trucks day after day and, too often, “don’t get to it”. squeaky wheel syndrome I suppose. or maybe we should call it the sticky throttle syndrome.

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#477

November 30

Nice days to be inside the truck vs outside. :slightly_smiling_face:

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#478

Wayne, don’t we all like good heaters :smile:
We DOW to do some chores at m-in-law’s today - a 100 mile roundtrip.
A quick stop at the grocery store and then climbing 700 feet in elevation before we reached our destination.

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#479

That was a beautiful DOW to do some chores.
Bob

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#480

The second picture makes me want to crawl back into bed. I’ll wait for next summer. Summer went too fast this year— not really, I just didn’t work hard enough. TomC

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