Thread: My red engine

Ok, the on the engine appears the following numbers in the following order.

First there is 9937263

Next there is a GM (I assume General Motors)

Firther along (To the rear) there is what appears to be 8F 8

and lowwer on the blockl in bigger numbers is 173.

So what is it from?

Also how mich oil does the engine take (I need to change the engine oil)?

Mate your looking in the wrong spot. the engine number is stamped on the machined horizontal face above the engine mount on the left side of the engine, forward of the distibutor. The number will be stamped not cast. You are looking at casting numbers. It will be something like QD 123454 (HQ) JD 12345 (LJ Torana), HD 12345 (LH torana). It will take 4.5 liters of oil .

Ahhh ops: Looking in the wrong place, no wonder it made no sense.

I'll try again in a minute. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

I haven't looked for the number yet, i've been too busy getting grover dirty

However on the weekend another matter popped up. I had a cadet camp and the Landy and I were transport. Betewwn the 300 odd liters of water, food for 50 for 2 days, tents, bbq's, tools, the vehicle itself, other equipment, a 4 meteer long tandem trailer and 2 people in the car, we would have topped neat 4 tones I suspect. Needless to say it was a slow trip.

However early friday before I left I had the points burn themselves out. Fortunately I had bought a new set not 4 hours previously. But in the process of changing the poiints, I dropped the screw that holds them in down into the distributor. So I had to take it out and shake the screw out. Re installed and on my way again.

During the trip to the camp, I noticed that the sound I thought was the engine pinging was almost co0nstant. Now like I have said, the load was considerable, however I was real worried. The other guy in the car with me is a real good mechanic (And a series landy nut). He said that it wasn't the engine pinging at all ( ops: this is what I thought it was ll along), but was a nois that some holden engines make, because of it's increased regularity, we figured out that it is probably something to do with damaged counterbalances in the distributor. Any comments, help or possible fixes, and is the distributor easy to strip down?

Ok, found the number now. The prefix is VD, which makes it a VB Comodore engine. 79 - 80, the same age as grover 8)

Although I think that my sump is from a VC, because that is blue.

Thanks for the help on that part, now I just have to get this distributor sorted.

pitty your in tassy as i have plenty of spare dizzys in my shed 8)
still sounds like timings out, thats the only noise thats ever come out
of any of my 6's, apart from the hole in the block one.
as for the sump if the hump is at the front of the engine its commadore,
if the hump is small and in the middle than its wb or torana.( i think.)
but if it has a step towards the rear of the motor than its hr.
if its at the front a black motor sump has an internal baffel and should slow the flow of oil away from the pick up. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

THere is always australia post :wink:

I thought that it was timing, but the noise only became worse after I shook up the distributor. The timing was checked by my mechanic the other day.

The sump is blue, and the hump is to the rear.

I'm going to pich the mechanics brain about this one some time today and see what he thinks.