Weekend life in Australia @ Steve’s Place. Join us here with our Aussie humour as we we drink beer, fix, drive, and fire up old trucks, tractors, mowers and other equipment, diesel and petrol, as well as anything to do with the place including roads and property maintenance. Watch as we use old worn out equipment to do some of these jobs, along with some not so old stuff! Enjoy
Steve you are pretty good with your Holden engines...........wasn't there a 179ci also. Twelve years since the 202 was running it sounds like you had it running yesterday,
Yeah there certainly was a 179, it’s hard to remember them all with the camera rolling. Yes it’s been roughly 12 years. It’s running better since this video.
This would make a great series tune it up n do some work with it although I’d love to see one engine on a stand better for learning to see the engine worked on stripped n rebuilt be good
Back in the day there were so many surplus 202 and 186 engines they were installed in everything from concrete trucks, generators and other plant. Worked at a couple of boily workshops over the years that had an old chamberlain crane repowered with a 202
I can remember when I was at TAFE, when I was an apprentice we learned about the basic principles of carburettors (diesel mechanics) the diagram used was lifted straight out of the HR holden manual.
The Holden reds from EH to VK commodores were a Chevrolet design ( my brother bought a used Australian delivered Chevy 2 in the early 1970’s and it’s 194 ci six apart from ancillaries is exactly the same as a red Holden engine) the reds (also the old Grey sideplaters) repowered just about everything back in the days from Lincoln welders, concrete agitators to Landrovers and Toyota Dynas and street sweepers just to name a few! There were kits available for just about anything with these venerable donks! And the reds came in a variety of sizes from 130 ci export Holdens, in 138 ( the same as the old greys) 149, 161, 173, 179, 186 and the 202, they could take a lot of abuse and a lot of modification, they may be just an old pushrod OHV inline but geez You could really get them making good horsepower as I remember back as a young fella with my mates with our Holdens in the era and relatively cheaply with speed shops on every corner just about here in Melbourne, they were good times and good memories! 👍
Thank you mate. This is what I was trying to say. I didn’t mean a copy of them but in front of the camera that’s how it came out. This is a very interesting comment. Magnificent stuff. Thanks again
This isn’t anything uncommon, and for good reason! My father in law (being a ford man) has a 250 ironhead in his little old D2 and it’s an absolute weapon!
From what I have researched, these engines should be actual industrial engines. It should have the letter "I" stamped onto the block.I am curious about how this runs as I have a 3.3 in an old concrete agitator. I had to put an industrial camshaft grind in it to get it to idle at 400rpm and hence turn the barrel slowly. It was overheating.
This was originally in a car so it probably won’t have industrial parts in it. I’m not sure of the ones that were used in other applications if they were different or not
The 202 engines were blue. If red ,it it had been repainted. Well they were from the end of 71 to the end of 75 when I left Holden. Try replacing the power plunger in the carby.
Mine td did about 600,000km before the pre comps fell out and punched through cylinder 1 did some deep research given that the motor had been flogged and overheated plenty of times I cut my losses and fed about 30k into a new engine straight out of Japan
