I pulled the vtec solenoid off tonight. It was pretty straight forward except for dropping one of the bolts and it not hitting the ground... searched for a good half hour for it. NoD, don't drop any bolts!
This is the solenoid behind the 1/8" steel bracket.
The bolt on the left has a 12mm head. The one on the right requires a 5mm allen wrench. My socket allen wrench was really tight to squeeze in there.
Remove the 3 10mm head and the solenoid valve will come off. The bottom one is a pain because the harness is clipped right in front of it. I ended up cutting the clip off to get at the bolt.
You can then pull the solenoid off and you'll see something like this. Mine was fairly plugged up.
I cleaned it up and tested out the solenoid. It was working fine so I reassembled it all and we'll see how it works from now on.
