Thread: Manual Choke 202 Holden Motor

Just turn the dizzi all the way anti clockwise then back a quarter,it will start,you can do the rest good enough by ear,Dont have your head over the carby whilst you crank it.

Hello All,

I will be blocking off the old AC Delco mechanical fuel pump for my Holden HQ 202 motor. The type of fuel pump with the glass bowl. At the very least it needs an overhaul as it was not working properly for the vehicle's previous owner and it has since deteriorated further.

Just out of interest I looked at how much a kit would cost to repair and alternately, the cost of complete new replacement unit. I found one repair kit for $129, a new complete pump ranges in price from $130 to $320

There is a similar mechanical pump - non-glass bowl type for $130.

The new Facet fuel pump that I bought is similar to the old Bendix fuel pump that the 2.6 litre six cylinder Land Rover motors were originally fed by, it only cost $120. Plus the cost of a block-off plate and a gasket to allow me to remove the old mechanical pump off the side of the motor.

I am glad I am not a slave to originality and being tied to the glass bowl type mechanical fuel pump.

Yes I have already broken the Land Rover code by my buying a Land Rover Series 3 which had a 202 Holden motor fitted to it. However, I like Land Rovers and I like Holdens -

Kind Regards
Lionel

Hello All,

I tracked down a supplier who was selling a pre-pollution inlet manifold and carburettor of the same type that would have originally been fitted to my very early manufactured 202 HQ motor.

I found my saved copy for the carburettor package that had be de-listed because its sale had ended. I contacted the seller to see if they still had the package and was told they still had it. This was a fortnight ago. I was informed that they would re-list the item that night. Since then multiple messages have been exchanged saying the unit would soon be listed.

Towards the end of our chain of correspondence I was told that the inlet manifold had been lost during a reorganisation of the workshop. I was then told the inlet manifold was found and they were in the process of cleaning the manifold.

I asked them to text me soon as the item was re-listed. I checked the site and it had been re-listed and no text was sent to me.

Plus just to add insult to injury the same unit that had been previously listed had sky-rocketed by $100. I contacted the crew to ask if there was a mistake in the price. I was told that they "had to buy in a new manifold so this had increased the price". Funny how they previously wrote in an email that they had found the lost manifold and were "cleaning it"

No I am not buying the manifold and carburettor off this mob of shonky operators.

Kind Regards
Lionel