In this episode we do some basic HOW TO type maintenance and repairs to a few of our rescued cars and daily driver a HQ holden and Ford Falcon XE plus go to pick up a WILL IT RUN type paddock find rescue Mopar / Valiant AP5 .
Love ya work Mick, enjoy watching your shows. From memory I thought those tow outer studs screwed into the head, we used to unscrew them with vicegrips and put bolts in their place with extractors, good idea to use a sealant on both sides of the gasket where the inlet ports are. Those old girls were so pron to scucking air there 👍
Love these old Valiant's👍 my uncle had 1 of these & a SV1 in the 1980s-90s but with push button gearshift, awesome old cruisers with plenty of torque -doing 80-90 "miles" an hour down the highway & dirt roads too lol the good old days
my youngest memory is being sat in the hot stinky driver's seat of these beautiful cars while my dad and granddaddy salvaged parts at the wreckers on Parramatta road
AP5 is an early 1963 going by the wipers set for left hand drive. Body stamping = AP5-2 (standard manual trans) 4918. Looks to be in far better condition than mine was when I started. I just hope your going to stay original with it. 👍
@@backshed5295 it should definitely turn into something mate you are doing really great content, great style, great cars. I’d be happy to give you a hand.
Hint from a retired submariner. Wear a ball cap when under the car. 1. It warns you before you headbutt something (I.e overhead valves etc inside the submarine - and 2. helps prevent mud and shit getting in your eyes, hair etc. Enjoyed the vid as always.
There was a reason i give up buying holdens over forty years ago red motors would let go of pistons skirts for no reason their Bango diffs would whine ....or even shatter into pieces ...my big change was into ford back then never look back to this day almost 42 years later as a back yard mechanic i have owned hundreds of cars and still run a small wrecking yard to this day...its good to see u preserving classic holden and fords and Valiants...my hat goes of to u ..for keepig them running
@@backshed5295 no worries enjoyed watching bloke brings back so many memories when i used to work on these cars myself i appreciated what work u do to them enjoy the beers
Those old reds with standard exhaust manifold often had dowels where you said the studs had broken. When fitting extractors us old modern would put in studs and two of the manifold gaskets. To allow for extractors being not straight
Mick it’s not righty tighty , lefty loosey on the left side wheel nuts, it’s righty loosey, lefty tighty . Great vids mate keep it up ,looking forward to the AP5 going . I use to have a AP6 .
Holden sixes end studs were threaded, we always replaced with bolts when putting on extractors and the gasket for extracters were different to exhaust manufold gaskets. We just unbolted studs with vice grips.
The gasket is just what I could get quick mate it’ll do , yeah I’ve seen a few comments about screw in but even if they did screw out I’m not fighting with 50yr old threads that if they snap guess what ? Youll be drilling out holes or if there’s any hanging out of the block You’ll then be doing it the way I did it so it’s the simplest way for me right now🍺🍺👍
I don't care what kind of eps you put up, just keep em coming. Excuse the the language but they are fucking great. Love see these old beauties back on the road and can't stop laughing WITH you. You make a great watch.
Some useful tail shaft tips there. Later today I plan on changing my unis out in my EFXR6. After driving to Melbourne for MotorEx in my Soarer and doing 1500odd km in Lexus comfort, then jumping back in the EF with 490,000km on the clock I thought to myself, "was that vibration always there?" 😂
That thermostat housing on the HQ Wagon doesn't have much life left in it, she's looking very corroded! The water pump might be buggered on the inside too! Nice burn on the cut bolt! Hahahaha 😂👍
Water pump seems ok mate but your 100% on the thermostat housing it’s not great BUT not leaking Hahha It’s fine for now she’ll tell me when it need to be changed Hahha🍺🍺👍
Threaded dowls are normally removed and replaced with stud the hole in the head has a thred I was a exhaust fitter and we used a stud remover or weld a nut to the dowl
Great video. Never tried that trick with the Trans seal. Have done it with a pinion shaft and bearing, put shaft in freezer and bearing in oven on low temp. With bearing warmed up and shaft frosty the bearing slid right on, gotta be quick. I don't recommend this with the wife home, not a good scene. Good thing she didn't see me wash the housing in sink. Hot water and dawn did great. You got lucky with those 2 studs, not really the answer was the smaller diameter bolts. That was a great fix. I need to understand why the underside of the car looked so great, and then you put in that rust looking drive shaft. Huh. Still thanks for the informative video. I look forward for your videos. Great content. I did cringe when the skidsteer came out to move that valiant over. Phone versus compressor, 🤣 still laughing.
I can answer the nice painted underside question mate and that would be when I painted underneath I must not have rolled the tailshaft over to get it all just got the side facing down hahah then going in I must have had it around the other way , probably the same reason the pan leaked ! Rushing . 🍺🍺👍
Hi Mick, yet another great video. Good to see a different style of video this time. Does your young fella enjoy mucking around with the cars? I reckon you would have made a good old school TAFE College teacher back in the day. Plenty of knowledge and could enjoy a few brews with the boys. Sad to see the Ford wagon go but you picked up an old VAL, how cool. Love your work and cheers 🍺
Poetry in motion watching you caring for these classics. I reckon every car I've watched you work on so far has some memory attached. Dad had a HQ sedan (white) and Mum drove an XE station wagon (chocolate or s..t brown). The Holden was a Holden, but the XE drove beautifully, and every now and then you might catch Dad driving it! Was listening to a podcast about the economy then switched over to find a new Backshed video waiting on the playlist. Awesome!
'Ooh, she doesn't smell very Valiant!' love your way of seeing the world mate. I had a real soft spot for these and the earlier r series, Bit more grunt, and loved the styling ,but they were not common amongst my 'first car / old car' owning peers.
You brought back nightmares for me, young bloke. Red motors and intake/exhaust were never right and even good extractors don't fit right and they cook the starter. I liked this video, still prefer when you go A to Z on a car but the odd video like this is a great idea.
Yeah Dale I do too mate but I’m busting my arse between working for the full episodes that are coming but I’m still getting messages “ when’s the next” Hahha which is awesome but I can only do so much mate🍺🍺👍
Yes they are just locating studs at each end of the 202 head, I ripped all the bolts and 2 studs out and replaced the lot with ARP header studs that screw in with hex key.
@@backshed5295 Cheers mate, enjoying the vids and fuckin around you do, from a viewer's point, pity we can't say what to do before you found a way, BTW when i was a kid mum drove us kids around in an AP5 Val for years she called it Mary for some reason and "she" was a cunz of a thing in QLD winters. I remember those vinyl seats either burning me or freezing me. Stick at it man, only car i would like is a poxy old Vagiant in my arsenal of junk. Cheers
They’re locating studs fit the original Holden manifold which was much heavier & robust. When fitting headers/extractors on ‘red’ motors those studs on either end of head should’ve been replaced…or you end having what you’re fixing, leaking manifold. 👍
29:40 a trick my dad showed me for stopping crap getting into the radiator, was to cut the foot out of the wife’s stockings and put it over the top neck of the radiator. It’s collects the crap and allows descent flow 🤙🏼
Yep many years ago a radiator repair guy in Brooklyn Park SA used to sell radiator socks for 10 bucks each they had a little magnet in them went into top hose gee you would be amazed how much crap it stops going into ya radiator that could block it 😉
Permitex is the best love the stuff and I always put it both sides on the extractor gaskets too and water pump gaskets 😊learnt that with slant sixes got sick off doing it every 6 months , that stuff on it goes 4 years with out a leak cause it stays tacky and heat , fuel and oil dosnt hurt it that's why they only use it on aircraft motors , that other gasket putty stuff goes hard dosent last long
Gidday mate Baz here from NZ. I"ve only recently stumbled across your Backshed channel ....love your work humour & cursing. Back in the mid to late '80"s my younger brother & i had Valiants he had an AP5 & i had a VC oh & the old man had a 245 Ranger. was wondering when i'd see a valiant on your Channel brings back good 'ol memory's keep up the good work cheers mate.
id consider those dowels, the way i'd attack your idea is pull them out, tap the hole and either wind a stud in there or use a bolt, great idea either way though
Cool, love your show mate., really good watch. Love the quirky bit in f humour you throw in as well.. Keep it up mate. Look forward to your next episodes.Cheers🍻
just grin side to side. put a spanner. but think agian you ill not get the streath. secound gess put a thread on the bold . put a nut weld one end to the block. then put a bold and nut and weld again. you can reverse the tensoren.
Once again mate I’m struggling with what ya saying buddy . I’m 4 or 5 beers deep but dood I’m finding it hard so you could be deeper? Hahah cheers for watching 🍺🍺👍
Should put links to the ones you're selling in the video description or something. Sure a few of the viewers would like the chance to buy one of the old girls
Mate even if they are threaded I’m not fighting with a 50yrs old thread for the risk of snapping it in the head so the way I did it is “for me “ the simple quick way to do it . Like I said only 1 snapped bolt away from indescribable rage hahah 🍺🍺👍
True that my friend, it all works thats the main thing. By the way excellent show. Good work, always entertaining, and you owe my absolute favourite car, The EH and to top it off THE BIG BLOCK!!!¡
Not sure if your aware mick but those 202 exhaust locating studs are just knocked in. The welded studs will just pull back out. Taping a thread in the head will work. I also noted the transmission rear seal had a drain hole in the rear dust cover. Im sure its ment to face downward
Can’t wait to see the AP5 content. My grandpa had a white one new with push button auto. It was his first non black Plymouth. My mum drive or for 15 years. Then my sister, then me. We sold it in the mid 90’s to a family friend who did a full restore. I remember it had left and right hand threads on each side of the car, so the wheel nuts would not loosen while driving. Every one came to see how the push button auto worked. Wish I still had her
Mate the bloopers had me wetting myself. The crash helmet lol. Reminds me of Mick Molloy back in the day. Hilarious. And don’t forget to order a washer bottle for the HQ
There are two 'locating pins' on the ends of the red 202. They are not threaded studs. Older red motors (,186, 179,173, 161, 149 & 138(red) ) had threaded studs or bolts.
Years ago I used to pull those studs and run a bottom tap down the hole so I could bolt the extractor flange. Can’t remember if the studs were pressed in or not. I’m talking 40 years ago now. 😅
Both from what I’m told , early were pressed then later screwed but either way I’m not fighting with 50yr old studs that can snap I’m just doin what I’m doin hahah🍺👍
Have a look for the stamp on the inner passenger gaurd, it will be faint but it should be along the inside of the gaurd in the engine bay. Great episodes 👍
Yeah mate seen that Some early 202s are press in but either way I wasn’t fighting with it to get it out it took 10pm a to weld threads an done . Take me longer to find bolts I reckon hahaha🍺🍺👍
Not sure but I think that model Valiant has left handed threads on the wheel studs on one side of the car. This means that before you go ahead and try and remove the wheels, just make sure you are turning the wheel spanner clockwise to remove the wheel studs
hey mate like your videos,good to see old cars getting up and running again , i looked at a few comments about the 202 end manifold studs and i didn't see any as yet to say how to fix that issue,you can actually unscrew them with a good pair of multi grips or something similar, and then just use a couple of 9/16 bolts or pull 2 studs from the other red six you have there ,then no more ticking from extractors, however i don't actually mind sound of a very small extractor leak,if you have been told how to fix it already, well and good,keep up the videos
Cheers mate Nah they are press in on the earlier block not screw in mate . Later HX-HZ they screw in but nope they way I did it is the easiest way I believe 🍺🍺👍
@@backshed5295 that's news to me mate, been around holden 6 engines since the old grey 138,replaced many exhaust gaskets on the red sixes and have always taken out the studs on the ends,and always by just unscrewing them,some could be a bugga to get out but never failed,from the red 138,149,161,173,179,186,(202 red blue or black )I have never know to be ever pushed in,however I just may have missed an early engine that this is the case, you can not see the thread on those studs when they are fitted from the factory which to a person who really don't know the old sixes,gives them the impression that they are probably pushed in
👍fixed is fixed mate and there done now regardless, 50yr old motor I’d say you would fight longer to get the stud out than just welding it like I’ve done 👍🍺
All of these vehicles look pretty unique. Especially to a guy saying smack-dab in the middle of the United States. These cars harneet based upon their own merits. Thanks for taking the time to put this episode together.
Cheers Andrew i really appreciate ya watching mate and yeah I’m glad you enjoyed the bloopers mate I’ve got to eggs on my stupid melon like devil horns hahah 🍺🍺👍
