Topic: anyone ever have vtec just stop working before? (Read 15032 times)

hotrex · « **Reply #30 on:** July 11, 2009, 11:29:16 PM »

tried that didnt work

Joseph Davis · « **Reply #31 on:** July 11, 2009, 11:41:30 PM »

Quote from: Joseph Davis on July 11, 2009, 12:29:34 PM

So that's where that pesky oil pressure went off to.

crxvtec91 · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2009, 12:18:42 AM »

Another build another fail attempt

Did you check the oil pressure yet?

onlyflash944 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 12, 2009, 03:33:29 AM »

Quote from: crxvtec91 on July 12, 2009, 12:18:42 AM

Another build another fail attempt

hotrex · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2009, 09:51:30 AM »

didnt check yet.

hotrex · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2009, 10:52:45 AM »

nothing has failed. bum injects and a few little bugs, no big deal.

car will be fine.

Ravage70 · « **Reply #36 on:** July 12, 2009, 11:45:39 AM »

Check the pressure and close this thread. A fucken guage is 10 bucks...

CSaddict · « **Reply #37 on:** July 12, 2009, 01:08:39 PM »

If the solenoid gets voltage, you can hear/feel it click then its all working. The only component left that assists the crossover is oil pressure. Maybe you should stop driving the car till you get a gauge on it. i can assume you checked the level of the oil already.

crxvtec91 · « **Reply #38 on:** July 12, 2009, 01:53:42 PM »

Quote from: hotrex on July 12, 2009, 10:52:45 AM

nothing has failed. bum injects and a few little bugs, no big deal.

car will be fine.

Not yet, but the thing you should have check you have not.

chris · « **Reply #39 on:** July 12, 2009, 02:08:13 PM »

How beat up was your oil pan/pickup?

hotrex · « **Reply #40 on:** July 12, 2009, 05:40:48 PM »

i havent been driving it... its been sitting. just installed my new gauge today. 90 psi on startup, 45 psi when its warm idling.

minty minty. its gotta be something dumb. ill figure it out after work tomorrow.

ima take the solinoid off and douche it tomorrow and also douche the oil passages in the head. i have a different vtec solinoid i can try also.

hotrex · « **Reply #41 on:** July 12, 2009, 05:42:25 PM »

the oil pan and pickup are in good shape. no dents on the pan and the pickup was also in good shape. im going to drop the pan and check the pickup screen and shit now because im curious. motor pulls good vac and has good oil pressure.

Joseph Davis · « **Reply #42 on:** July 12, 2009, 08:31:50 PM »

If you're lucky the head's just a stripped out piece of shit.

hotrex · « **Reply #43 on:** July 12, 2009, 08:32:48 PM »

whatr u talking about. the head has like 200 miles on a machine shop freshening.

what are u talking about being stripped

Joseph Davis · « **Reply #44 on:** July 12, 2009, 08:37:07 PM »

Quote from: hotrex on July 12, 2009, 08:32:48 PM

whatr u talking about. the head has like 200,000 miles on it before a machine shop freshening which doesn't add metal back in anywhere.

what are u talking about being stripped

Gee, I dunno. Despite my familiar posturing I've never experienced VTEC not working even though the control system does and oil pressure's good.

Just ignore me.

hotrex · « **Reply #45 on:** July 12, 2009, 08:40:06 PM »

im asking you what part of the head would be stripped.

Joseph Davis · « **Reply #46 on:** July 12, 2009, 08:56:01 PM »

The part that engages VTEC. Are you firing on all cylinders?

hotrex · « **Reply #47 on:** July 12, 2009, 09:04:00 PM »

motor runs good just wont engage vtec how would i check the head?

Lowerit · « **Reply #48 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:02:26 AM »

Mine did this on saturday after rebuilding / reassembling a B16. Just to see what was up I opened up the Vtec solnoid on my Z6 and compared the 2

The plunger on the B16 unit pumped oil fine, but when I compared the 2 I found that on the B16 the little round slug sat flush with the case.

On the D series (working) Unit , it sat slightly above.

Cleaned it with brake clean..worked the plunger and it sat above the case like the other one... bolted it up and it works great.

Screen was clean when I pulled it apart , I even cleaned it with brake clean and air the first time around, but I imagine some particles were in there from when the OG motor blew a bearing.

hotrex · « **Reply #49 on:** July 15, 2009, 11:46:25 PM »

mint. good look. finally a useful piece of info

News:

Author Topic: anyone ever have vtec just stop working before? (Read 15032 times)

chris