i bought a mini me swap from my friend. It has a y7 block and y8 head. Once the engines in my car i noticed It has an oil leak from the vtec solenoid. So i checked the gasket and it looked fine there was no tears/rips, i torqued the bolts down also, then i noticed there was an oil line going to where the pressure switch is at so i took the tube off that looked like this...




i took the tube off and it looked like it was this metal line so oil could come through. I thought there was suppose to be the green plug there?



is this why it might be leaking? i thought the solenoid might be getting to much oil and maybe leaking out? vtec is not set up right now but i would like to kno why its leaking and why the pressure switch is not there?

 

sorry but ^ thats funny

 

yea thanks its leakin really bad too...

 

might just need a new gasket for vtec selinoid...its a lil rubber gasket i forgot wut it was called.....its in the archives somewhere..........?

 

the gasket on it looked fine but im gunna buy one anyway to see if that does anything...its also leaking on the top part of the solenoid.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Throwdown &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">sorry but ^ thats funny</TD></TR></TABLE>

so are you gonna tell him that his solenoid is fuccked!.

thats where the oil pressure/vtec swith is suppose to bend yes its green.

go get a new vtec solenoidd. it looks like your friend did some wierd hack job to that.

MAtter of fact sell that motor to someon else. You dont konw what else has gone wrong with that heap/


Modified by djsire at 3:59 AM 1/4/2007

 

where does the other end of that hose/line go??? just curious.

 

well my friend got the engine from some guy but ill buy another solenoid and see if it stops leaking hopefully

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by schardbody &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">where does the other end of that hose/line go??? just curious. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i'm also wanting to know...

but better yet, why is a hose connected there? is it doing something?

 

this is whats at the other end feeding oil to the vtec solenoid

 

this is why im thinking its leaking because too much oil is getting into the solenoid because its not usually like this?

 

thats some getto ****...

sorry

i would get a new solenoid to make your car cleaner...

 

hmm, that makes no sense at all. the vtec solenoid gets oil from the head, not the pressure switch. i dont understand the reasoning there??? but oh well. i would certainly assume that this is the cause of your leak, too much oil pressure in the solenoid. fix it and cap off that bung in the head. then get a pressure switch.

 

it looked very odd to me i was wondering if anyone else has done this because i dont know what the reason is for it

 

there is no logical reason, unless they didnt have a pressure switch and just needed something to go in its place, but unless he had vtec hardwired or on a RPM switch or something like that it wasnt working.

 

they probably thought you need a vtec oil line for the mini me.
one of the dumbest things i've seen yet.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by brick top &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">they probably thought you need a vtec oil line for the mini me.
one of the dumbest things i've seen yet.</TD></TR></TABLE>

hehe

 

the guy who had the engine before had vtec wired to a vtec controller

 

i would suggest you get a new solenoid and close up that tap.

 

they are getting the oil to feed vtec from that line onthe other side of the head because they didn't pull the oil feed line out of the block when doing the mini me swap!!!

GHETTO....

and it probably won't work that way

it is just feeding oil back down

did you even have vtechk?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by schardbody &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hmm, that makes no sense at all. the vtec solenoid gets oil from the head, not the pressure switch. i dont understand the reasoning there??? but oh well. i would certainly assume that this is the cause of your leak, too much oil pressure in the solenoid. fix it and cap off that bung in the head. then get a pressure switch.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm thinking the dude rigged it up like you would for LS/VTEC.

Yeah I know that sounds kinda crazy but maybe he thought there wouldn't be any taps in the block for the oil to get to the VTEC solenoid so he ran his own...

Who cares, if I was the OP, new solenoid, DEFINITELY.

******* hack job.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by chad &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">they are getting the oil to feed vtec from that line onthe other side of the head because they didn't pull the oil feed line out of the block when doing the mini me swap!!!

GHETTO....

and it probably won't work that way

it is just feeding oil back down

did you even have vtechk?</TD></TR></TABLE>

chad FTW, i didnt even think about the oil control in the block, haha, tards.