My dad claims he got about 60mpg average in his diesel Chevy LUV. Like everything else he wishes he hadn’t sold it off or traded it.
It seems to be 0.2- 0.3mm at least above the cylinder, don’t know what it should be.
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I never knew there was a Diesel Chevy LUV. VW diesel Rabbits in the 70’s got 45 to 50 MPH but they were very hard to start in the winter. I think they started failing emissions standards later as well. Still it would be a nice engine to have to tinker with WG.
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It was around the tail end of the LUV name and going to the S10.
I had a Isuzu pup pickup that I got blown up from my dad, at the time I was working in the wrecking yard and my yard truck was a luv diesel five speed. Same exact trucks, was bought brand new and spun 88,000 miles inside a ten acre gravel lot. When the company decided the luv no longer fit the company image and I was to dismantle it I bought all the running gear wiring fuel lines everything for 500$, took it all home and bolt in swapped it into the pup. 45mpg no matter how you drove it. Had a flowmaster Toyota exhaust I put on it, sounded like a pissed off 22r Toyota with a savage rod knock. Like a dummy I had kids and thought I need something bigger then a standard cab mini truck and sold it for 1800$ to a bulk buyer that shipped 80’s diesels to Cambodia. Still feel a fool for that one, best milage rig I ever owned, c223 diesels are tough little motors. There was a later version that came in the Isuzu rodeo that was a turbo model, friend had that one and got 37mpg on used motor oil wheeling it in the hills. Iv been on the hunt for one ever since, easy place to find the motors is Isuzu imark cars. Very few were 4wd, but used a divorced transfer case so would be a shoe in swap to a Suzuki samurai if I can’t gets my hands on a vw tdi motor. Only bummer about them is most were naturally aspirated and used a belt driven injection pump with very little adjustment, I thing 2-3°. Can’t really turn them up for more power in any way, stuck with a gutless turd that gets great fuel economy
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Even these days this I consider to be affordable, and they are incredibly reliable. Not enough power to hurt themselves, just chuggs along
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That seems good, Jan, most important they are a little higher, not in “plane” or lower.
You could probably find the correct height on the net, or in some workshop manual if feel unsure.
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I hear you TomH and Marcus on the small diesels. They were around. Some small in the US Fords too.
Here Clark County the spread between at the pump for diesel and 87 gasoline is now a solid $1.00 to $1.14 a US gallon.
That is almost exactly 20% higher for the diesel.
So . . . just get a Toyota Corolla 4dr or such and have room for 4-5, luggage and an AC.
It is always much more than a single figure of MPG. Chase that and you’ll end up with a two seater with a small Kubota lost up under the hood.
The smiles per mile is a much better measure. Four smiling beats 1-2 any day of the week.
S.U.
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If that’s the case I REALLY shouldn’t have gotten rid of the pup, I got a big kick driving that thing around. Yes a royal turd in the power department, but the mileage was smile worthy and the little puffs of black smoke was another smile. Yes I’m still childish and love rolling coal. Some of the earliest memory’s I have are grandpa running farm equipment and dad running skidders and dirt iron. The smell of diesel smoke is like a trip down memory lane to me and in those days no one cared about the smoke, they just cared that the work was getting done and fast. and that price gap here is 1.15-1.60$ gallon more then gasoline up here. but that 500 gallon tank in the back of my shop keeps me thinking about another small diesel some day
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The oil companys probley bought out the small diesel cars like they did electric cars back in early 90,s/ They dont like us being that independent of there fuel sourse. I had a geo metro that got 40 mpg on gasoline, it would haul a famley of four if you were a careful driver, I think it got over 40 mpg on HYW and about 35 mpg around town, Tiny car though.MY dads hibrid honda was a little bigger, and only avereged about the same for 3 times the price of a car.
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I had one of the 3 cylinder geo metro, the lsi model with a five speed. Got around 30mpg pretty normally. Great little car really, traded a beat v6 s10 pickup for it and it was know locally as the parts runner. I took it up in the mountains with my buddies on wheeling trips and if anyone broke anything we would pile in the geo and head to town for parts. Poor little thing did a lot of miles off road and on gravel. Funny, if you rip the exhaust off on a big rock, it sounds just like a piped subaru wrx at wide open throttle 
I rallied the core support right out of it then the front suspension under load would flex the whole front of the car out until the cv axles would pop apart. Then it went to the big scrap heap in the sky. Paid 300$ for the s10, so geo cost the same in a straight across trade. Best 300$ car I ever had and fun to drive! I would own another one for a commuting rig, I just have a hard time not being in a full frame vehicle now. To much time in the wrecking yard seeing the terrible things that happen to small cars in an accident. Gives me the creeps being in a unibody, except Subaru’s. Now those are one tough little car
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Ya i had one geo metro barley got 30 mpg, though my newer condition geo had about 100.000 miles got about 40 + on eway driving. That was fun too drive smiles per miles. Cheap rengade type car though, indeed.
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Here we are on vacation at Öland (wich directly translates to “islandland” 
) Swedens next to biggest island.
Today temps reached 38°c (probably around 100°f) That is more than a Swedish man can handle 
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Göran, be grateful you’re close to the sea. You would have experienced almost the same temp even back home. 35C on the coolest side of the house today. I spent most of the day submerged in the river. Have a nice trip.
Oh, and tomorrow 15C, rain and thunder is forcasted up here 
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Yeah i heard around 32-35° home where i live. It’s forecasted something like that here to, tomorrow, a little warmer though, 19°
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All I can say is that this a great day to dry your wood out on. But you better get it under cover before it rains. It has cooled down here in East Wenatchee Washinton State USA from what you are now experiencing to 26.7 °c or 80°f with a gentle breeze blowing, it is still warm and drying out the wood.
A Cool dip in the river sounds good to me too. JO.
Bob
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Bob, I was able to bag up $200 worth of bone dry chunks straight from trailer. Better than money in the bank. Stored away they aren’t affected by inflation 
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You have got that right JO. $200 of inflation free fuel to drive on.
Bob
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Visiting Störlinge museum of farming and related equipment, thought i could share some woodgas related stuff. 
Hand-cranked start-up blower, 1:200, imagine crank this for 10-15min’s then you have to crank-start the tractor engine.
Piston from a Wärtsilä ship engine.
Two local tractors during war-time.
A wood-chunker, based on the wheel-of-death principle, very heavy cast iron flywheel with a axe mounted in the periphery.
The wood-chute, or anvil.
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Your guys side of the pond was never “super” interesting to me, other then to see the terrain and mountains, but I’m seeing more and more reasons I would like to someday cross the ocean. Just the woodgas related history would make a great trip, thank you for sharing this
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