Looking mighty fine Herb! She’s just purring like a kitten.
Just a tip - hold your phone horizontal, so the video comes out full width.
Thanks Chris, wondered what I was doing wrong.
These two videos are reruns brought forward , I’m trying to add more!
New one, continuation of same ride, switching from gasoline to woodgas and short ride.
Same ride, switching off both banks of injectors, downtown Woodward Iowa and going out of town
Same ride getting out on the open road
Coming into the next town east of me,
Leaving next town over
Same ride, little latter, arriving at sons home about 30 miles from my shop
Found one more, heading home ,same trip.
That is CLASS !
Cruising down the road at 80 mph in a wood powered Caddy !!
One small step for transportation ,
A huge leap for sustainability .
gotta love a caddy on wood! I see you got the digital dash on yours too .have you got the electric brake booster as well? that is the only problem I’ve had with mine. I bought it with them not working but parts included, fixed it and 35k later same hard peddel. cool ride hope to see it in May
Herb,
Did I understand right that you shut off your fuel pump and also the fuel injectors?
Good stuff Herb . I enjoyed the videos .
Wes and gang, Just Mike here. I want to comment that on most of the OBD1 GM cars it’s best to turn off both the pump and injectors although most MFI cars will not pull through the pump because they need a certain PSI to open the injectors. On the OBD2 it’s mix and mix. My OBD2 97 cavalier had a convenient fuse that turned off both pump and injector so it was a few minutes of work. My OBD2 98 S-10 has a whole different setup. If you liberate the injectors there is a link to the computer that turns the tach and speedometer off. I had to find the actual fuel pump lead which was easy to do and snip that. After a 1000 miles or so I could see that it does not suck up through the non running pump.
I think we had one of our largest snows last night. 5 or 6 inches or so. A lot more to thaw. Insult to injury. I have to sweep off my solar panels up the hill to power this shop. I will try my snow shoes. Hope not to rip my knees out any more than they already are … Mike
Hi everyone, had to bring my computer back to repair guy so I’ve been w/o it for the last couple days. Tried to post with new I-phone but my thumbs are to big for that.
Thanks Wayne about the 80 mph comment, it actually just had shifted into hi gear about the time the video cut off, granddaughter cropped video’s for me so who knows, I was going downhill, after it hit hi gear it went up to 86 and then started dropping off as it went uphill.
I like that saying, One small step for transportation, one huge leap for sustainability!! That’s pretty cool!
Yeah Jim, digital dash and electric brake booster. The only trouble I’ve had with Caddy is rusted out brake lines and fuel pump quit for a while but it started working again, haven’t had any trouble since. It had 101k on it when I bought it, has over 105k on it now, almost all on wood. Planning on being at get together in May, have to have a Stem Cell Transplant at Nashville VA, waiting on call to go now so it depends how all that goes, they tell me it takes about 2 months to recuperate from that so I’ll have to see, hope so!!
Yeah Wes I learned that I had to have shut offs on both banks of injectors, when I first got it running on wood I was driving around acting like a hotshot with just pump off telling everyone I was running on wood, I thought what’s all this 75% stuff Wayne talks about, I was driving around for 3 hours having a blast. Latter I found out I had burned up all my gas out of the gas tank. I had the fuel pump off but it pulled gas right out of the tank, that’s when I started learning about the 75%!!!
Thanks Johnny, I think we got ours going about the same time but I think you have passed me up now mile wise, sounds like you are getting some real good out of yours, way to go! I’m glad you liked my video’s.,
Thanks Mike, good info, you know a lot more about that stuff then I do.
Posted another video tonight, it’s of the same trip that same day driving home, I’ll hold my I-phone horizonal like Chris said next time, thanks everyone. herb
Good morning Herb,
Thanks for the videos , Very Classy .
My comment one small step and on giant leap is not original . It has been used millions of times but I think it applies to your accomplishments.
Our prayers will be with you on the stem cell transplant.
Wayne
Thanks Wayne, I need and want all the prayers I can get. I’ve been in “remission” from this Cancer called “Mantel Cell Lymphoma” since last August. It is what the VA has called one of the “presumptous diseases” caused by the herbicide known as “Agent Orange”. My caner was discovered as a lump in my armpit last Jan 28th, I underwent Chemo a few days latter and after 6 months of that the cancer was in “remission”. The problem is this Cancer has a nasty reputation for coming back, the best known treatment is doing this Stem Cell Transplant. This procedure takes it from about a 48% chance of getting it back to about a 24% chance. The VA only does this a couple of places in the US and one of them is Nashville, I’ve been excepted for the procedure and now waiting for “the call” to go. They are going to “harvest” by stem cells, hit me with some kind of very potent chemo and then after a few days put my stem cells back in and from there I should start getting my strength back. The Viet Nam War comes back to “haunt” in lots of different ways!!!
Thanks for your service and our prayers are with you Herb.
Marvin
We are praying for the best results for you Herb. I lost a very good friend, at a very young age, to the same exposure.
Herb,
My brother in law was diagnosed with cancer, went through chemo and he still had it. Then he had a stem cell transplant with his sister being a perfect match doner back in Jan 2013. They had to kill his system with some super chemo then give him the new stem cells and hope the graft cells overtake the host cells. He is the only survivor from his group. He was quarantine for months to build up his immune system. He is doing well and may even be allowed to go fishing this year. Like prior comments, I will be praying for the doctors, and your recovery as well.
Praying everything will go good for you Herb.
Thanks to a serviceman.
Praying they can tune you to run as good as the caddy.
Thanks guys, your kind thoughts and words mean a lot. We all have our struggles in front of us, this just happens to be mine. They are taking MY stem cells so there is no rejection problem, that alone takes the risk of death from about 20% down to only 2%. I am a healthy guy, other then this cancer, I know that probably sounds funny but it’s true, I’m 6-1 and weigh 230. I’ve been very active all my life, I didn’t lose any days of work through all this, just the actually days of chemo. The only real problem with this is that the heavy duty chemo I will get while my stem cells are removed kills all my white blood cells so I will be weak and I won’t have any infection fighting ability. That is why the recoup time is so long, I will be in isolation with 24/7 care giver, my wife, until I’m strong enough, sounds like that could be a couple of months. Again thanks for thinking of me, I will be fine! I’ll post when I can, could still be 2 or 3 weeks before I get “the call”, big wheels turn slow you know, herb.
Herb…your one of my favorites on here. I started reading your post from the very first one you posted to the very last. I really liked the video I believe you said your daughter took of you in your caddy with you talking to it telling it to shift baby shift. Can actually feel your emotions as your picking up speed. Can’t wait to experience it first hand. I did see you posted your telephone number a couple times and I would like your permission to call you sometime if it is ok with you. Your patty chunker looks like it would be a blast to operate. I have been dirt track racing for 40 years so we prob have a lot in common. I also have a 1928 Model A roadster pickup. (stock from front to back). Thinking about gasifying it if my current project works out. Think it would be kinda cool to gasify it beings how it was probably one of the ones during WW2 that may have been running around on wood gas…or one like it anyway. Grand kids sell stuff out of my garden at the farmers market on Saturday mornings here in Coffeyville, Kansas
Gary
They sell out of the back of my Model A. It draws a lot of attention.
Gary
Hi Gary, just so happens I am going to Council Grove Kansas today. My brother, Vic Hartman ( Hartman Masonary) lives there and we are working on a project together. I will be there for most of the week unless I get “the call”
You or anyone else on here can call me anytime, my # is 515-778-6466.
I am from Kansas but I can’t think where Coffeyville is although the bank got robbed there on Gunsmoke the other day, Council Grove is about an hour West of Topeka on the Old Santa Fe Trail.
I’ll look forward to hearing from you, latter, herb
Wow didn’t really mean to post pics off iphone but there they are.
Anyway this is the project brother and I are working on in Kansas, it’s our Dads from many years ago. Long since sold we decided we were going to find it and buy it back. That was years ago now, since we have redone it, it’s a 1949 Diamond T Tractor. Dad used to “truck” with it years ago.
Good talking to you last week Gary.
Still waiting on “the call”
