Good to hear your smiling voice Marcus. Hear your observations. Your conclusions, and goings forwards. Might aught-to drill and pin those press-in rocker studs, maybe. I recall others woodgasing GM Vees having sometimes studs pulling on them. Tar sure. But anybody can sometimes make tar. Regards Steve unruh
Good to hear from you Steve! This motor is just a stand in for now, im hoping to go through the high compression motor with rings and bearings and bring it back to life, then re use these better heads. But I am still torn on time frame, after this morning it appears the ecm on the dodge is on its way out. I'm debating trying the obd1 harness out of the green truck and see if there is a difference in power on wood. Wayne mentioned in his v10 after running on wood if he tries to start up on gasoline the engine will buck the starter this really intrigued me I am very curious if the obd1 computer is more adaptive in timing controls since it is not restricted by emmisions standards, but internet research has left me with nothing on the factory timing maps of the 94-95 v10 Hoping all is well with you and the family!
One of the really great values of your channel is that you are basically a full-time mechanic. This puts you in a special class of people who are thinking about the accessories available to them .. what size and make of carburetor, engine, timing techniques, transmission, etc. This kind of R&D is really great for the wood-gas community. I enjoy your content. 🙂
It will be interesting to see what the bores and rings look like. I've never seen that much gas get by worn rings, I have seen the crankcase get loaded with fuel from the mechanical pump. Bet the rings are stuck in the grooves.
I'll be very curious how the bores look...I stopped messing with gen 1 SBC when LS came out... They are too soft...I loved a nice 383 but they would be clapped out and need rebore by 100k miles. I'm sure the soot in oil makes worse but it's possible it acts like a lube and stopped the bore wear and super glazed the rings...... I know in class 8 diesel stuff when engines were outfitted with egr and reburning carbon they went from normal 1 or 2 million mile inframe rebuild down to 500 to 800k. Will be interesting to see what you find. Hopefully I'll be starting on the LS powered 36 Chevy gasifier build after christmas
I'm really looking forward to your build, and see how the ls does with the timing controls. So far the dodge is not impressing me, the toyota feels like it has WAY more power
@@mechanic_prepper I have had several intake puffs with the dodge, problem now is after the rocker bolt issue that cylinder is dead, I need to do a leak down test but I'll probably be taking the engine out of the 94 soon as the toyota is back up and running
That throttle body is deceiving ..they flow over 800cfm stock . We have bored out and ported them and flowed 1100 but it hurts low end pretty bad. Knocking the sharp edges down and radius them at the top of throttle bore will help and not hurt low end...all you would be doing is smoothing out transition .
Good to hear your smiling voice Marcus.
Hear your observations. Your conclusions, and goings forwards.
Might aught-to drill and pin those press-in rocker studs, maybe.
I recall others woodgasing GM Vees having sometimes studs pulling on them. Tar sure. But anybody can sometimes make tar.
Regards
Steve unruh
Good to hear from you Steve! This motor is just a stand in for now, im hoping to go through the high compression motor with rings and bearings and bring it back to life, then re use these better heads. But I am still torn on time frame, after this morning it appears the ecm on the dodge is on its way out. I'm debating trying the obd1 harness out of the green truck and see if there is a difference in power on wood. Wayne mentioned in his v10 after running on wood if he tries to start up on gasoline the engine will buck the starter this really intrigued me I am very curious if the obd1 computer is more adaptive in timing controls since it is not restricted by emmisions standards, but internet research has left me with nothing on the factory timing maps of the 94-95 v10
Hoping all is well with you and the family!
One of the really great values of your channel is that you are basically a full-time mechanic. This puts you in a special class of people who are thinking about the accessories available to them .. what size and make of carburetor, engine, timing techniques, transmission, etc. This kind of R&D is really great for the wood-gas community. I enjoy your content. 🙂
It will be interesting to see what the bores and rings look like. I've never seen that much gas get by worn rings, I have seen the crankcase get loaded with fuel from the mechanical pump.
Bet the rings are stuck in the grooves.
That engine was wore really bad. It should be a completely different truck with the new engine.
It was losing power quickly after the sludging problem, maybe I can retest my top speed runs and get a better score 😀
@@BigBeavrSlayer That's for sure. I imagine that V8 in a lightweight truck should be exciting.
@@lukeFugate it can go through a set of tires pretty quick on gasoline worth a heavy right foot ill say that😉
I'll be very curious how the bores look...I stopped messing with gen 1 SBC when LS came out... They are too soft...I loved a nice 383 but they would be clapped out and need rebore by 100k miles. I'm sure the soot in oil makes worse but it's possible it acts like a lube and stopped the bore wear and super glazed the rings...... I know in class 8 diesel stuff when engines were outfitted with egr and reburning carbon they went from normal 1 or 2 million mile inframe rebuild down to 500 to 800k. Will be interesting to see what you find. Hopefully I'll be starting on the LS powered 36 Chevy gasifier build after christmas
I'm really looking forward to your build, and see how the ls does with the timing controls. So far the dodge is not impressing me, the toyota feels like it has WAY more power
@@BigBeavrSlayer yea well we know the SBC has way more timing ..lol. Slower burnrate needs more timing .
@@mechanic_prepper I have had several intake puffs with the dodge, problem now is after the rocker bolt issue that cylinder is dead, I need to do a leak down test but I'll probably be taking the engine out of the 94 soon as the toyota is back up and running
I’m wondering about an oil injection system that would lightly lubricate the cylinder. Maybe some Lucas top end lube.
That throttle body is deceiving ..they flow over 800cfm stock . We have bored out and ported them and flowed 1100 but it hurts low end pretty bad. Knocking the sharp edges down and radius them at the top of throttle bore will help and not hurt low end...all you would be doing is smoothing out transition .
I was surprised there is no aftermarket replacements in a larger size. 2 company's used to make them and they have not been made in years
I was gona say, that exhaust manifold looks a little dirtier than normal and im willing to bet almost none of it was from the gasifier.
Off topic, is that a Clark forklift sitting in the back in this video? Looks familiar..
It's a mid 80's Komatsu lift, im sure it was a spinoff from a Clark as it has several Clark parts on it