I never told my insurance company my truck was a gasififer truck. It is duel fuel like a LP truck but it makes no difference in the insurance.
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Hey Cody, I put it in the shed after I ran it a couple times cause work and lack of ambition have kept me from finishing it. 
I don’t sleep good ( stupid brain won’t shut off) so at night I’ve installed it many different ways in my mind, I hope later this fall or winter I’ll get it in the truck.
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Hey Dean, my brain works like that too. I have done some of my best building before I go to sleep at night, and rebuilding it again too.
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Finally got around to lighting up gasifier again, it takes about 5,6 min to get temp up enough to light, the 2 ,4 inch fans pull about 4.5 inches just enuf to light it up, then I put a variable speed shop vac on it to get it up to about 15 in of vacuum ran it for about 45 min,this is the third time I ran this, should be getting a char bed now, gonna put it the truck now and try it.
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Good morning Dean
Thanks for putting a big smile on my face this early morning 
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Hey Cody, started looking into fuses on the 07 and there isn’t a fuel pump or engine fuse, and the inj fuses are labeled 1 and 2, so I checked my 2012 and it has a fuel pump fuse and an engine fuse and the inj are labeled A and B, I read up a bit on it it looks like the pcmb #6 fuse on the 07 is for fuel pump and pcm? So I will prob have to tie in after fuel pump relay to shut off pump, and I’ll look it to it more but maybe in this one the inj fuses might shut off the injectors? The first pic is fuse box of 07 and the next one is the 12
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In the handful of test drives, I’ve found my 4.3L is happy with just the fuel pump cut off. Our generation of the “Spider” injectors are actually true Port injection instead of Sequential.
I can’t help but feel like the tiny amount of gasoline that gets mixed in helps it maintain idle.
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K thanks I’ll try it, I ordered a pwm to try also, do you think these engines will cut back on fuel on there own to a certain point when you cut back air and add wood gas?
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Maybe not as fast as you think, fuel trim only works to a certain amount. It’s mostly for air temperature and your air filter clogging up over time.
But with a PWM it’ll cut back as much as you want.
With the fuel pump cut off, injectors on and no woodgas, the engine will die, but if you try to restart it will kick over for a moment and die again. I noticed the same thing in my friend’s old Renix Jeep Cherokee. It’s a very minimal amount.
I think even Wayne leaves his injectors on in the Dakotas. Can’t remember off the top of my head.
I do remember Gary Gilmore having issues with his OBD2 Ford Ranger, he had to reset the computer to get it to start on gasoline after a few days of driving on charcoal gas.
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Installed the gasifier a couple nights ago
Played around a bit at 10 pm and put maybe 15 miles on it and on the way home lost power. Looked in hopper next day and seen why, maybe should have had more wood lol.
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Hello Dean.
Thanks for the pics and up date .
The first several miles on a new gasifier will really eat the wood . It will use about 3X vs what it will use after it is run for a while .
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Thanks Wayne, I refilled with charcoal and wood , gonna give it another go tomorrow. I only have a 2 inch pipe for gas cause it was easy to plumb and I think I should prob run some extra piping so it easier to pull gas that long distance.
I got it up to 90 km (55 -56 mph)with that one 2 in pipe.Tomorrow in the day light I can check things out better when I run it, it is a long box extended cab 3/4 ton 4x4 so it’s fairly heavy but I think she has more to give.
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A 2" pipe is okay going up to the engine as long as it clean and does not get plugged up with soot resticting the gas flow causing a high vaccum pull.
Thanks for the update.
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Put on about 20 miles today, seems to work ok pulls about 11-12 inches cruising at 55 mph and quite a bit more when you push it,it idles a bit to low on wood gas so have to fix that up, now just the other 75 percent and should be good.
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Cut the lemon into wedges, much easier to take a bite when passing a gas station to help with a SWEM on your face, Smile With Every Mile. Thanks for the great ride. Like Wayne said it will take a few hopper loads to get the charcoal bed to established. When it does you will have more power.
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Great job, make sure you always have lemons at hand 
Have you tried out the pwm yet?
I’m looking around for one too and was wondering if this one worked good for this as I have seen it around here too.
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Very exciting news!!! Congratulations!
(Encurages me to get the heads pulled on mine and get it back going.)
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Thanks Johan, yes the pwm works, it’s a cheap one from Amazon but seems to do the job, I did try it by opening air some and adding some fuel on the go and it seemed to work fine,seems to hybrid good so far.They work off the ground so had to find the power and ground going to fuel pump.
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Great job Dean!!! It is so great to see others being successful on wood gas. I just added the cooling tubes and hopper condensate tank to my WK yesterday and hope to be doing the same soon.
GC
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Thanks Dean, I haven’t been able to find a pwm with a common ground as the ones Carl Zinn said to get (he also said that they were hard to find).
I’m happy to hear you are out dow. Enjoy.
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