Welcome back Joe mate a lovely bloke doing your normal errands and yep those cars are very rare for sure and you cannot kill your 70s cars and way better than the EV (Electric Vehicles) you see now days sadly.
Awesome , just picked up a 75 HJ Tonner with the long Speedo on Sunday down here in Vic , got the 8 fired up the other day , Very Sold Cabin , Over the moon bit of work to do , but will be well worth it in the end , last tonner i had was a HQ fronted HJ back in the 90's , Awesome machines , Great to see you back HQ Tonner Series , yes please 🍻 Yeah the Weather , Cooked myself cleaning up the Old Girl as well 😫
@@junkyarddog87 No down here in Vic out Drouin way , very Happy need some work , but very happy , but i wouldve come up that way for the right price at the time i was looking "long time" got Family up that way
Oath, mate! Great to hear another 202 roll over and do its thing again. Yeah, she was a bit hit and miss on cylinders while cranking to begin with - sort of had a gallop, but didn't. Heard them all start to check in again as the cranking got closer to the stage she wanted to fire and she sounded like I remember my old Grandad's HQ Kingy sedan winding over. The old boy had it from new and kept her regularly serviced - and I mean like religiously, eh. Beaut old beast in that orangey-colour - Autumn Gold I think it was called - in late '73 / early '74. She'd done 171k by the time he stopped driving because of his eyesight, without ever having the head off it, never done the clutch, the old 3-speed column shift never had the classic Holden 3-speed bearing whine, still pulling 40psi of oil pressure at idle when warm too. Know this last one for a fact because I borrowed it one afternoon and the bloody oil light came on when she'd warmed up, so I shut her down quick smart and called Dad.....who wasn't impressed I was out in it. Got it back to his place, fired her up and the bloody light went straight out! Took it about 5 mins but it came on again, so he hooked up a gauge to where the sender screws in and she fired up and ran idling for 20 mins at 40psi without a flicker on the gauge. Bloody sending unit had shagged itself, but I tell you - having a red light come on when you've borrowed your Grandad's mint HQ for a cruise, fair puts the shits up you, eh! Had to laugh when she fired up and then died and you called her a bitch! We've got something in common, mate! My Triumph Stag can be a little recalcitrant at times and will occasionally do the exact same thing - fire up first crack and run for about 15 seconds and then die, then fire up and run fine from there on....and she often gets called a bitch when she doesn't stay running on the first turn of the key. Even the smoke on the Wonton started to die down a bit after she'd been running for a bit, although how she stayed free with all that water in her internals is anyone's guess, mate! The gravel-in-a-tin-can noise up front definitely sounds like waterpump or alternator bearings and I wouldn't want to guess which because I've heard both make that sound....although I have heard more alternators sound that way than waterpumps. Waterpumps usually just piss coolant out the breather hole when they are trying to tell me they want replacing.....or the bearings collapse without warning and send the fan into the radiator at 3000rpm or more. Not a pretty picture when that happened..... I've not seen an HQ/X/Z body that rust free for bloody ages, either. Great find and even better that she still runs, moves and (I presume) stops.....eventually(?) Will look forward to seeing more of what happens with the old beast as work progresses. All the best
I still remember these when they were new. I had a workmate with a 253 fitted, and another who left and used one with a 308 as a tow wagon for a large Auckland towing company for bloody years. He's probably still got it, along with his HQ wagon, and his EH wagon.
What a lovely survivor hq 1 tonner. I grew up with them . Excellent vehicle's. Please do it justice and restore it right. No ls swap Please. Lol. I know you won't. But still had to say it. Love the channel BTW.
That engine or the valve rocker cover looks like it's from a Holden which was built in 1975 (e.g. LH Torana or HJ Kingswood) when they went to the closed breather setup where the breather hose is connected in between the air filter housing (it looks like the air filter housing has come from a later model Holden as well) & the valve rocker cover. Holden went from the open breather setup which oil filler cap is still fitted onto the engine but the valve rocker cover is of the closed PCV type, that type was fitted in 1975 somewhere. My dad replaced quite a few engines in his old 1972 model HQ Holden Kingswood wagon & he ended up just using the open breather type valve rocker covers since some of the engines were from a 1975 onwards car, they were also fitted with an EGR valve. The fumes vented out through the opening which was normally connected to the air cleaner housing , the engine in that Ute was dirty because the fumes & oil was blowing all over the engine.l from the open breather type of oil filler cap. I have driven a HZ Holden ute once & 66 kilowatts of power wasn't very exciting, I drove a 1984 model Holden VK Commodore Berlina which ran a black 12 Port EFI 202 cubic inch Holden six in it & while it was shot it still went pretty well, they put out 106 flywheel kilowatts of power when they're in good condition. I did a cylinder head gasket replacement for my now deceased cousins mate whose also deceased now , he drove that VK Commodore Berlina sedan & someone had botched uf up because it blew on cylinder number 6 again because the previous person didn't clean the deck of the engine block off properly. At 200,000 kilometres, the engine seemed to be neglected despite me being told that it was owned by an old man who had it serviced regularly, the cylinders were out of round & the engine burned a bit of oil, my cousins mate eventually blew up the engine. It's not necessarily the EFI setup which made the engine perform, it was the Wade 933 spec camshaft which was also used in the 6 cylinder HQ Holden race cars & the 12 port cylinder head which helped extract more power out of the 202 engine. Some people replace the EFI setup in the VK Commodore with a Holley carburettor,I would've talked about hotting a Holden six up over 30 years ago because they go pretty good once they're cammed but I would go for at least a 304 cubic inch Holden V8 engine which is fuel injected now & a 5 speed manual transmission then chuck the 3.08:1 diff in the back. Ideally a 6 litre or a 6.2 litre Chevrolet V8 engine would be nice if you could afford it, the 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine is good if you can find one, my 2002 model Holden VY SS Commodore runs that engine & they're very rare now so they're a lot harder to find because the engine in mine is 23 years old & Holden started fitting them 26 years ago in 1999 !
Indeed definitely not the original donk, I have the first page from the service record book from when it was sold, while still a QL prefix the numbers no longer match… If I remember 😅 I’ll show that in part 2
@@junkyarddog87 They're all like that when they've been sitting for years, they need a decent load putting on them to let the rings settle back in before condemning them. There looks to be little wear on the pedal pads, that starter still had the factory check "AD" sticker on it, I wouldn't be surprised if the mileage has only been round the clock once and it's just had a hard life of short trips as a farm ute.
Finally, someone who pressure washes the engine bay before trying to get it started.
Yes! Rat poo hitting the fan at 4000 rpm does not sound like a good idea!
Welcome back Joe mate a lovely bloke doing your normal errands and yep those cars are very rare for sure and you cannot kill your 70s cars and way better than the EV (Electric Vehicles) you see now days sadly.
Great video👍 it never gets old to see an old donk fire back up to life😄
Good job! I thought it was never going to start when I saw the rocker cover venting like that.
Must have had valves stuck and then finally freed up :)
Awesome , just picked up a 75 HJ Tonner with the long Speedo on Sunday down here in Vic , got the 8 fired up the other day , Very Sold Cabin , Over the moon bit of work to do , but will be well worth it in the end , last tonner i had was a HQ fronted HJ back in the 90's , Awesome machines , Great to see you back HQ Tonner Series , yes please 🍻 Yeah the Weather , Cooked myself cleaning up the Old Girl as well 😫
Was that the one in Echuca? Looked pretty good 👍
@@junkyarddog87 No down here in Vic out Drouin way , very Happy need some work , but very happy , but i wouldve come up that way for the right price at the time i was looking "long time" got Family up that way
It doesn't need rad hoses, there was enough water in the sump! 😂
Love it! Realistic Aussie narration and cool approach. You got my sub.
Nothing better than the sound of the red six powering up.
Yep Go and go and go. Great engines.
Will be great to see the old girl back on the road again.
That piston out of the carby, I've got one on my key ring had it for years .
Is it the plastic or genuine leather? 🤣
Thanks for showing us your video 🎉🎉🎉😊. Brings back memories. I was 12 years old when they were New. I'm feeling old now. 😅😅😅
Great Project
Some nice tallowwood planks for the deck at the back and hammer tone paint to make it stand out 👌
I love timber trays they look awesome, on the other hand I’m intending on putting her back to work at the same time, some tray mods are in the works!
Rare as rocking horse teeth, an unmolested, near rust free 1 ton tilly that runs as sweet as a lolly.
Oath, mate! Great to hear another 202 roll over and do its thing again. Yeah, she was a bit hit and miss on cylinders while cranking to begin with - sort of had a gallop, but didn't. Heard them all start to check in again as the cranking got closer to the stage she wanted to fire and she sounded like I remember my old Grandad's HQ Kingy sedan winding over.
The old boy had it from new and kept her regularly serviced - and I mean like religiously, eh. Beaut old beast in that orangey-colour - Autumn Gold I think it was called - in late '73 / early '74. She'd done 171k by the time he stopped driving because of his eyesight, without ever having the head off it, never done the clutch, the old 3-speed column shift never had the classic Holden 3-speed bearing whine, still pulling 40psi of oil pressure at idle when warm too. Know this last one for a fact because I borrowed it one afternoon and the bloody oil light came on when she'd warmed up, so I shut her down quick smart and called Dad.....who wasn't impressed I was out in it. Got it back to his place, fired her up and the bloody light went straight out! Took it about 5 mins but it came on again, so he hooked up a gauge to where the sender screws in and she fired up and ran idling for 20 mins at 40psi without a flicker on the gauge. Bloody sending unit had shagged itself, but I tell you - having a red light come on when you've borrowed your Grandad's mint HQ for a cruise, fair puts the shits up you, eh!
Had to laugh when she fired up and then died and you called her a bitch! We've got something in common, mate! My Triumph Stag can be a little recalcitrant at times and will occasionally do the exact same thing - fire up first crack and run for about 15 seconds and then die, then fire up and run fine from there on....and she often gets called a bitch when she doesn't stay running on the first turn of the key. Even the smoke on the Wonton started to die down a bit after she'd been running for a bit, although how she stayed free with all that water in her internals is anyone's guess, mate! The gravel-in-a-tin-can noise up front definitely sounds like waterpump or alternator bearings and I wouldn't want to guess which because I've heard both make that sound....although I have heard more alternators sound that way than waterpumps. Waterpumps usually just piss coolant out the breather hole when they are trying to tell me they want replacing.....or the bearings collapse without warning and send the fan into the radiator at 3000rpm or more. Not a pretty picture when that happened.....
I've not seen an HQ/X/Z body that rust free for bloody ages, either. Great find and even better that she still runs, moves and (I presume) stops.....eventually(?) Will look forward to seeing more of what happens with the old beast as work progresses. All the best
Awsome vid mate
I still remember these when they were new.
I had a workmate with a 253 fitted, and another who left and used one with a 308 as a tow wagon for a large Auckland towing company for bloody years. He's probably still got it, along with his HQ wagon, and his EH wagon.
What a lovely survivor hq 1 tonner. I grew up with them . Excellent vehicle's. Please do it justice and restore it right. No ls swap Please. Lol. I know you won't. But still had to say it. Love the channel BTW.
No LS swap at all, either this 6 gets warmed over a little or use a really angry 6 I’ve already had built 😉
That engine or the valve rocker cover looks like it's from a Holden which was built in 1975 (e.g. LH Torana or HJ Kingswood) when they went to the closed breather setup where the breather hose is connected in between the air filter housing (it looks like the air filter housing has come from a later model Holden as well) & the valve rocker cover.
Holden went from the open breather setup which oil filler cap is still fitted onto the engine but the valve rocker cover is of the closed PCV type, that type was fitted in 1975 somewhere.
My dad replaced quite a few engines in his old 1972 model HQ Holden Kingswood wagon & he ended up just using the open breather type valve rocker covers since some of the engines were from a 1975 onwards car, they were also fitted with an EGR valve.
The fumes vented out through the opening which was normally connected to the air cleaner housing , the engine in that Ute was dirty because the fumes & oil was blowing all over the engine.l from the open breather type of oil filler cap.
I have driven a HZ Holden ute once & 66 kilowatts of power wasn't very exciting, I drove a 1984 model Holden VK Commodore Berlina which ran a black 12 Port EFI 202 cubic inch Holden six in it & while it was shot it still went pretty well, they put out 106 flywheel kilowatts of power when they're in good condition.
I did a cylinder head gasket replacement for my now deceased cousins mate whose also deceased now , he drove that VK Commodore Berlina sedan & someone had botched uf up because it blew on cylinder number 6 again because the previous person didn't clean the deck of the engine block off properly.
At 200,000 kilometres, the engine seemed to be neglected despite me being told that it was owned by an old man who had it serviced regularly, the cylinders were out of round & the engine burned a bit of oil, my cousins mate eventually blew up the engine.
It's not necessarily the EFI setup which made the engine perform, it was the Wade 933 spec camshaft which was also used in the 6 cylinder HQ Holden race cars & the 12 port cylinder head which helped extract more power out of the 202 engine.
Some people replace the EFI setup in the VK Commodore with a Holley carburettor,I would've talked about hotting a Holden six up over 30 years ago because they go pretty good once they're cammed but I would go for at least a 304 cubic inch Holden V8 engine which is fuel injected now & a 5 speed manual transmission then chuck the 3.08:1 diff in the back.
Ideally a 6 litre or a 6.2 litre Chevrolet V8 engine would be nice if you could afford it, the 5.7 litre Chevrolet LS1 V8 engine is good if you can find one, my 2002 model Holden VY SS Commodore runs that engine & they're very rare now so they're a lot harder to find because the engine in mine is 23 years old & Holden started fitting them 26 years ago in 1999 !
Indeed definitely not the original donk, I have the first page from the service record book from when it was sold, while still a QL prefix the numbers no longer match… If I remember 😅 I’ll show that in part 2
great video i love 10/10
Yeah nice! Cheers!
Good on old mate .subbed😂
good show ill be back
Those XB's for sale?
Not sure sorry, they are a very busy pair that I got this one from, I know they had a 351 ltd on their other marketplace listings though.
Hqs were taxis when i was a kid.😂
Thats NOT a lawnmower. its a lawn mover - subd.
Very nice brings back good memorys
Poor ol Red ...she is a bit tired and light on compression,blow by ...lot a miles on her..the ol 202 has done her job..rebuild time mate ..
She’s tired, will run it up to temp when the hoses arrive, just deciding on a warm cam and minor headwork or finding a decent stocker
@@junkyarddog87 They're all like that when they've been sitting for years, they need a decent load putting on them to let the rings settle back in before condemning them. There looks to be little wear on the pedal pads, that starter still had the factory check "AD" sticker on it, I wouldn't be surprised if the mileage has only been round the clock once and it's just had a hard life of short trips as a farm ute.