Quote Originally Posted by Dark61 View Post
Everything else looks ok.

cheers,
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Dark,
did you end up going ahead with this donk?
They can have a nylon drive gear on the bottom of the dizzy (some are metal) and these become very brittle and bust to pieces, they are only about two bob each and easy enough fit.
Might save you a walk home, then again that wouldn't be all that far from home I suppose.
The 179 were a good old banger and go pretty well, the "HP" were just the early version of them, introduced into the EH series Holden's which at the time only had the little 149ci engine and manual transmission. First up they were only available coupled to an auto transmission, then a beefier manual box became available to handle the 179's power. The "High Performance" bit just meaning higher performing than the 149ci engine. Later in production Holden started casting the actual engine size on the left hand side of the engine block.
They had a forged steel crank, as opposed to a cast crank, but so did every Holden engine up until about Feb 1967.

Cheers, Mick.