2001 Accord EX coupe
F23A1
Auto trans



Welp, this is a new one for me. It'd take me all damn day to explain, so I made a video.



Any ideas on what caused this? Those two rocker arms are damn near welded together. I don't have a clean work area right now, so I can't disassemble the rocker arms just yet, but no amount of wiggling can separate those two rockers.



I'm just going to tag a few people that may know the answer here, but these people never leave the Civic forum and if I posted there, they'd throw a fit.
@RonJ
@tony_2018
@94EG8

 

clogged oil line somewhere. Take it apart and clean it

 

Alright, I got it squared away, but the cause of the problem remains a mystery.

In each set of 3 intake rocker arms, there's two small shims on the outer rockers, a large shim in the VTEC rocker. One of the small shims fell out causing the large shim to slide into it's place, thus locking the two rockers together.

 

Did you clean it out while you were in there?

 

Why would I clean it out? It's already clean and dirt wasn't an issue.