ramz7887

I took my car a couple of days ago to get my timing belt replaced and it turns out that the guy who put the belt on last time put it on wrong The guys at the shop said the timing was way off and it caused the car to fire on the wrong cyclinders!!! They also told me to get a vavle adjustment because the timing has been off for so long. Well anywas when they took the valve cover off the oil was caked on all over. Its looked terrible. The guy said that it was the worst build up he had ever seen on a honda. After the job was done the guy told me that he took it for a test drive and said that he couldn't hear the vtect kick in. Its a sohc d16 so i know the kickin won't be that noticable like on the b series but what do you guys think? Do you think that the oil build up could have clogged up the vtec solinoide? Please let me know.

tangb2023

take the solonoid off and clean it and see. clean the screen. and use seafoam or something to get all the build up off. why was the *** at the shop taking ur car up to vtec any way?

ramz7887

where is the vtec solonoid?

DaveSi677

its behind the engine block on the left. You see a little cylinder looking object and that is the Vtec soleinoid. Ill try to get a pick.

2000blackgsr

Its on the left side of the head right by the distributor.

There is an upclose pic in this thread, but its the best I can do.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=457557

ek9mugen

so your timing belt is on right again?

if so get a valve adjustment, make sure the timing is set to stock and get an oil change. then take further actions if needed

ramz7887

yea the timing is good i'm getting a valve adjustment tomarrow and i already had the oil changed a couple of days ago.

DevLishPlaya

is it easy to clean the vtec selenoid? and how?