Can we get the engine unstuck after 42 years
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This is our second video on our 1969 Opel Kaddet two door station wagon, it has a 1900cc four cylinder engine ,three speed automatic transmission , and only 40k miles but it has been sitting outside since 1979
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Where else can you watch a man disassemble a car engine with a goat standing on top of it , chewing on a screwdriver? Simply brilliant!
Ummm maybe Only in America?
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You can't that's why Sleeperdude is 'impeccable'.
The way your daughter is looking at you at the beginning of this video is pure reference! That must be a wonderful feeling.
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You have to name Rocky's kid Rockette. Those look like triple square bolts like on VW's. You can get driver sets for those at Harbor Freight.
Agreed, very much so!😅🤣😁
I was gonna say the same thing.
Rockette!!!
I was just about to put THE same comment. Rockette for the win. Ralphie’s really rocking’ it!! Keep up the great work.
I like Rockette. What a cute baby goat. 👶🐐
My grandfather bought one new herr i sweden, 1962, 3door stationwagon. The roof was dark green and The rest creamwhite. He never took it out in the rain or winter.
He passed away i 1988 and the car has then 46000kilometers .
The engine were 1200cc
That’s awesome
Rocky's baby is so damn cute! I'd name him/her Opel.
Yeah maybe so
Awww, Rocky's little offspring is so cute, name her Rachel. Sorry about the seized engine would loved to hear it run as my Wife had one of those cars in college. But time puts a hurt on everything even us humans. Good video keep them coming, and thanks.
Thank you for watching
Yes celebrate your video even if you couldn't get it unstuck but now you know why and you got to show Ralphie another valuable lesson in engine mechanics not every engine will run. It was 42 yrs since anything was done to that one so obviously it was too long. Great video.
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Man I love you videos ever since I found you when you dragged all them cars out of a garden, thanks for all the great content also love seeing rocky and the kittens etc much love from Ireland
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You are awesome mate, always deliver good quality vids. Thanks for posting. Hey Ralphy you are a great lad. Look like your Daddy. Love the animals and Baby Rocky is a beauty. Cheers mate. Keep safe.
Thanks for watching !!! Glad you enjoyed it
Rocky's baby- "Pebbles"!
Rocker.
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Great Channel. Love the fact that you would find it worth your while to spend time on this Opel. Great stuff. Keep up the good work.
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hi guys i was 10 yrs old when this car came out hope you have time to sort it out love your videos keep them comming all the best to you and family from paul
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Hey buddy that was a good try. With it sitting for 40 years you can't beat yourself up on it. You can still fix it up just put another four cylinder in it and make it a small family vehicle. As always Rocky trips me out. Rocky son you should name him ( little Rocky Junior ) after all it is his son. Rocky's just like everybody else you can't hate on barbecue. Good video brother. Hope you and your family have a good weekend & thank you for sharing.
Thanks man you have a good weekend as well .
I had a opel cadet and loved it, that little sob was tuff. Many good memories of that car.
That’s cool
this is a wonderful show which is teaching good morals, getting the kids involved & a christian upbringing. Ralphie & the girls are 'gettin' er' done!
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i don't know that this is a Christian values thing, I didn't get that vibe from it. i do think there's a great family dynamics here, of that, there is no doubt.
I'm late to this party but a 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF work wonders on rusted parts. Better than anything commercially available
Ok great thank you
Yes, 50/50 ATF and acetone can do the trick! I used it to free up a 59 Alfa and a 57 Olds that were both stuck tight. Put a cup in each cylinder and let it sit for a few days. Repeat, if necessary.
If you are want to make the old engine to run you should try to take a piece of wood and a hammer and beat down on the pistons (not too hard) to hopefully shock them loose. Btw love the vids keep it up!
Thank you glad you enjoyed
Had two of these two-door "caravans" back in the days.....a '72 1900 "wagon" I drove in high school.....plain-jane, 4spd, carbureted, & dog dish hub caps.
Second was later, after getting married....it was a '75 1900 Ralley(!) package with sporty steel Ralley wheels, extra gauges at the front of the console, and Bosch fuel injection! 😯......Both were the same green as your '69, but slightly "modernized" body style.
Also, my great-aunt had a '73-74 1900 4dr "noth-back".....(we called it a sedan🙄) It was Carolina Blue with black & white interior and auto transmission.....
Neat lil cars, for sure!
Man they sound nice
Baby Rocky should be named Pebbles. On the engine, if you had an infinite budget and parts, it might turn but I would wonder if you could find a shop that could repair the block and heads.
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You may not have the room in that engine compartment but I,'ve freed up a 59 cadillac v8 with a 3ft chain wrench and cheater pipe around the harmonic balancer. Scared up the balancer a bit but didn't snap the bolt. Trans fluid in the cylinders, cleaned up the carb and got it to fire up. Smoked up the neighborhood when she fired up😁
Someone suggested the name pebbles for the baby goat. That's a great idea. The Opel drag car there's another great idea. 👍. Cheers from Canada
Yes great ideas thank you
Name baby Rocky ... Pebbles ! Because pebbles are small rocks lol 🤣🤣 I watch you all the time ! I was raised in Greensboro north Carolina ! Am just a good old country boy to !! So yeh pebbles would be a cool name !! ROCK ON DUDE !
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Man I'm gonna be getting me a sleeper dude shirt pretty soon. Itll be one of my goin to town shirts.
We will have some at the swap meet in Dayton
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You had me yelling 🤣 at the screen to stop ✋before you break the bolt 🔩 off in the crankshaft! Anyway, love the content, your cheeky sense of humor and the 60's elevator music! Please keep it coming.
That’s funny thanks for watching
It'd be interesting to try just filling the whole crankcase and intake manifold/carb to the top with diesel and leave it for a few days or weeks, and see if that would free everything up.
Yeah couldn’t hurt
Your first stopped the crank-pulley bolt, and the broke it off. The crank will have to be removed, and drilled to insert a heli-coil, thus removal of the engine is a must. A substitute four cyl, and manual trans from another car, might make the most sense.
Brake fluid eats paint. Pour into cylinders.
Looks just like a Toyota or Datsun estate we had in Australia, should pull the motor, if not very easily repaired, go for a rotors like a 12A or 13B with a five speed it would make an awesome sleeper.
Son of Rocky has earned the name "Pebble"!
Good choice
I'll bet you have a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine around there somewhere. It should bold right up just fine! LOL
That’s about right
On the crank that snapped weld the best as you can possibly get to that bolt and use that to turn it over
Can't win them all...but that's the reality of life. Thanks for keeping the content real
Thanks for watching
Rocky really cracks me up sometimes....who knew screwdrivers were a food group!
Maybe name Rockys kid "little rock" ✌
He’s hilarious
Cheers bro 🙂 that thing might go good with a Toyota 22re engine, cheap to put in
a 1uz-fe too could totslly make this car a real sleeper with the legendary reliability of this engine
That P.B.Blaster is really good stuff. I never heard of it and a friend told me to try it. WORKS GREAT 👍
7:05 you do your best, but sometimes mother nature claims the engines in these things. Congrats on Rocky becoming a Dad! All he has to do is take notes from you on how to be a great one!
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Awesome video as always..! Still working on opening the RC Cola bottle at the bottom of our flip flops. Getting close. Cheers from California🍾
Send a video !!!
love this opel, too bad is rare to find one these days, can't wait to see it working
I wish you could have gotten that engine to run. I pulled the engine out of my Opal wagon with a rope thrown over a tree limb. Put a new clutch in and put it back together and kept on trucking 😁
Awesome
I think those 12 pointed bolts are called triple squares.
I had a gold Opel Kadet wagon in 1972. Really enjoyed it.
Did you check that the starter was not rusted to the flywheel? Another awesome video. Greetings from Ye Merrie Olde England.
No I didn’t, thank you for watching
Too bad that engine didn’t turn over but you gave it a good go at it! Glad I got my Rocky fix again - love the baby goat - being pure white, maybe “Snow” or “Snowy”?
I've always loved the Opel Kaddet. If the car were mine, I would find a Chevrolet 2.8 or a 3.4 engine and trans to put in it. They moved the 80's S10 and Camaros well enough and would be plenty of power for that car. They're also compact enough to fit in the engine compartment without too much of an issue.
Ok thanks good ideas
Happy to see Rocky has started a family just too cool videos
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Star sockets
1st new car, 1970 Opel Kadett, 2door coupe, $2,000 😋. Took one year of driving it 70 on I-75 rendering the engine useless. Rush hour stop and go in Detroit, one rainy morning, Semi with no trailer hit the brakes behind me, couldn't stop at low speed, my bumper ended up at the back of the back seat. Bought it from a Buick Dealership, deep blue with white interior🚙 . John here, from the back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee.
Puddin's fab shop swears by vinegar he's had decent luck with it
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I had one of these in 1972. I believe the engine was a tiny one liter and didn't have much power. Had a problem with accelerating until I figured out the retainer holding the baseplate in the distributor had broken and caused the points to spring wide open when accelerating which totally altered the gap.
Ok awesome . Thanks for watching
I'm old enough to remember these cars, they weren't much good when they were new.
Ditto! I even owned one for a year or so. When they did run, they generally ran like $#&*. I spent more time working on it than I did driving it. But they were cheap and really sipped on the gas for cars of the time.
You should make a merch tshirt that says “Rocky for president!”. That guy just cracks me up. Call the new goat Snow White, or Snowie.
Good idea
I was getting ready to comment, use some vinegar and then you said people have been saying try vinegar lol! I love watching you and your family work together on these will it run videos. Not to mention Rocky giving a hand or shall I say a hoof lol!
Yeah I need to try the vinegar
I remember back in the mid seventies watching a dude at the drag strip at Green Valley Race Way in north Texas racing one of these with a BBC 396 and a 4 speed. Of course it was highly modified but would run low 10s high 9s in the quarter.
That would be awesome
I bought a new 1968 US spec Opel Kadett when I was in the army in Germany. That car took me all over
Europe.
a did have opel kadett in early 80s.the car was from 79.cool car back then.
Oh cool
I LOVE IT. Get it running. Make sure it's safe, brakes and tires, and I'll trade you my 96 Lincoln Town Car. Those cars are cool. I'd really like to get an Opel Diplomat. But they weren't sold in the states. Cool video.
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Hi, you've a cool bunch of helpers, as usual. My first car was an Opel K 180. It was a cool car.
That’s great and yes I do have the best helpers
Well ya'll tried man that little engine really stuck. Was workin on some rusted nuts other day out of pb blaster my son had some deep creep sittin there figured I'd try it I've never in 55 years had anything to work that quickly or good as that stuff does. Thanks for sharing be safe have fun enjoy ya'lls family time and homestead
Put a block of wood on top a piston and hit it a few times with a hammer then go to the next. If it breaks something you aren't out anything but it's worked for me.
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That block is toast! Rocky will eat the head if you left him alone long enuff lol
Yeah I think I will let him take care of it
You ain't giving up on it are ya?
I was messing around on marketplace and saw a Opel and I said that looks similar to the one sleeperdude has. I then realized it's the same one!!!
Vinegar works very well... I use it alot to break up rust in stuck engine block
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I had a '68 Kadett Rallye with the 1900- it was a bear finding the metric Allen wrench for the head bolts back in 1974- I think we finally wound up ordering it through Buick - hey, if you could locate one, this little thing would be a screamer with an aluminum 215 Buick in it !!
That would be cool
I would really like to see complete rebuild from pulling body and complete build from Fram up. It would take a lot of time for you but I think it would be really cool
Thanks for all your hard work
I would love to see it restored as well
Wiki: "Opel OHV engine", which stands for "Overhead Valve" and
is often associated with the Kadett model due to its widespread
use in that car; the "1900" designation simply indicates the
engine displacement of 1.9 liters. Awesome! Lord be praised!
Love all these old cars. Your channel is really good. I also have learned me a things
Exactly right. It's known as a CIH or cam-in-head engine.
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It not the cheapest solution out there, but when I have to soak one, I just fill it up with Dex/Merc and let it sit for a couple of days. I've dealt with two stuck engines on revivals I have done, and it has worked for me. It is cheaper than Marvel, and Marvel is mostly Dex/Merc anyway. A couple of people have mentioned it on here, but sometimes you just have to get a block of wood that is small enough to fit inside the bore, sit it on top of the piston, and whack it with a hammer. Sometime they need that little extra persuasion.
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The old aircooled vw engines are the same way.the crank pulley bolt will just turn and turn when trying to get it unstuck
Really
If you still have it...this should be your next burnout car. Love your videos!
It's gone.
Nice video I remember working on these cars to change the engine used to lift the body up and roll the engine out on the front tires the engine sizes were 1.1 1.5 1.9
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I'd love to have that Opel and put a fresh Toyota engine in it. Like a Prius set up. Or just a 4 cylinder engine with all the goodies. Really enjoyed this Opal video. God Bless.
That would be cool
The Opel GT coupe uses all the me hanicals & I think floorpan so you should be able to use/do whatever is done to them.
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Thanks for the video sleeperdude. Congratulations to Rocky a good name could be rocket👍
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Its crazy to think thats 4 decades ago you could walk outside and see this car shining in the driveway ready to go
Yes it is
A 2.2 Ecotec and a 5-speed out of an old S-10 would be a good swap with plenty of power. Kadetts weigh about the same as a Festiva. You don't need 300 horsepower to go really well.
The CIH engine was made to fit under a lower hood line. The block dates from the fifties. Instead of a new engine, they just updated what they had.
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Little baby rocky sure is a great addition to that beautiful family you got there. Boy that motor was one solid block of rust! Keep up the good work, this is great content. 👌🏻
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Rocky's daughter should be called Roxette! Thanks again for the video.
Good idea thank you for watching
Rockys little girl is so cute ...he must be a proud father ...the engine is a mess....heres a thought put a 2.3 ford 4 in it fun to watch..
Sounds good to me
Brake fluid is the best to unstick any engine. That's how I do it here in hazard Kentucky
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The head bolts are "Splined" headed.. Hope this helps .. Plus you can get a set with longer shafts :) :) Andy UK ...
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Awesome job mate it's great how your kids help 👍
Thank you I am blessed
Vinegar is a rust remover, but it's very slow compared to standard methods such as phosphoric acid.
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Brake fluid eats paint. Use a straw to apply by dipping straw in brake fluid and place your finger on end of straw to seal & hold fluid in straw. Release fluid by removing your finger. This is a good use for old brake fluid.
Great Video! I learned a lot watching you explore. Thanks!
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My manual transmission 1.9L Opel Rallye would run with stock small block Chevys. When the BMW 2001 came out, the Opel ran even with the BMW.
Wow
That Opel has your best potential as a high mileage commuter, potentially beating a 2.3 Fairmont even with the roof rack. Even though you must now drill out that bolt, Don't give up! use vinegar or muriatic acid on that rusted cylinder, probably muriatic acid on the one and vinegar on the others, and either pry on the ring gear or pound on the piston with a chunk of 2x4 or a huge socket, being careful not to splash muriatic acid.
Good idea
Rocky's baby should be Pearl, seeing that you're working on an Opal. The Opal would make I cool off road rig.
Yeah maybe 🤔..
All the engine that was stuck I always pull the head and clean the rust out of the cylinder walls and drain the oil then I put PB blaster in the cylinders and let it soak then I take a 2 x 4 and put it on the Pistons and hit it with a hammer to get it to move so the bolt don't break off the Crank shaft especially if you want to save the engine
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Pretty shot on the engine. Name Rocky’s Baby Junior . It would make a great car to convert to a drag car. It’s light enough.
Yes sir !!!
Jogs I had one of those sit was a cool wagon to drive enjoyed it
In Norway there where a load of these cars. get hold of a 1,9 -2,0.2,2. opel. in us there where a lot of opel gt you can use that engin. in this litle car it wil function very well :)
Just a suggestion I’ve been seeing some other folks do it and I think it probably works and I imagine it depends on how long you’re able to let it sit try using vinegar on the next when you run across
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The new kid on the block. Call her rocket. Seen another you tub they used evapo rust worked like a charm .
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ATF AND PAINT THINNER 50/50 MIX IS THE ENGINE UNSTICK FLUID.👍👍
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Watch Puddin's Fab Shop latest video, he used vinegar on a Mazda and it freed it up real quick
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Your kids are a hoot..lol Keep up the grreat work. I have learned a lot.
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I had a 69 kadet ls wagon very good dependable car
That’s great
That’s great
Rocky chews on everything ! So name little Rocky CHEWY !
Good idea
every time you get some where that rust shows up keep on wrenching
Hey I think Vienna would be a great name for the new goat! Love your videos.
Yeah maybe
Rocky's baby: Girl-Rockette, Boy- Rocket or Rocker.😁
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@@Sleeperdude Thank YOU!
You're a good role model for our next generation of car aficionados, too bad they'll only have tons of dead Ford Edges and other badly engineered vehicles in the junkyards to work with.🤤😁
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White distilled vinegar my man!! Dissolves rust. I've used to it save cylinders, rods, flywheels, cams, etc.
Also the sockets are Triple Squares!
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