Car Analogy

Sounds like someone used to the craziness of German cars, where its common to have to buy a whole, expensive part just to get the small, poorly designed piece of it that normally fails, and for some reason being a German Car everyone just accepts it and pays through the nose for the part.

Many of us appreciate how this is not normally the case with our Honda's, and aren't ready to roll over and accept it here.

Billman250

In order to get the little rubber stopper plug for the clutch pedal, you have to buy an entire firewall

peacekpr

Can I afford the $200 VTEC solenoid assembly? Yes, but that's not the point. It'd be wasteful to spend that money on it when the are other solutions. I literally spent $0 on my "hack" job. That's $200 I can now put to better use in some other way! And mine is a temp fix until I can get some Viton and make my own proper gasket or buy one or more from another tinkerer.

Staying tuned, Billman. :-)

Wannabes2k2k11

Oil breaks down rubber, more so with synthetics generally speaking. It would always be a "small" gasket in relation to the size of the solenoid part. I don't think it's realistic to expect a small piece of rubber continuously exposed for its life to oil that's, what on average 175-225 degrees? Come on, something like just couldn't last forever unless it was the size of bike tire tube.

No I've never owned a German car, I just accepted the fact that to fix 100% without a doubt for the long term you buy a new Solenoid. And it look nice, new and shiny on top the front of the engine

At least with something Like that, it could come from a salvage car.

Yes that's good you spent 0$ on your hack job, but you just said it yourself. It's only a temp fix, it's gonna be on your mind, and you're gonna have to revisit the issue again. Maybe more than once. If you replaced it, you can forget about it. Again I know it sucks, and it is stupid you can't buy the gasket, but hey I guess that's apart of the s2000 tax from honda parts.

peacekpr

True it may have to be revisited at the cost of $9 for some Viton. :-) Gotta remember us tinkers like to tinker. :-)

SgtB

There's no reason for that gasket to break down in the time frame it has. The gasket is the wrong material and the wrong thickness. It's not even a rotating part. They went cheap.

slowtouge_max

mine was leaking pretty bad. so i put a LITTLE FIPIG(toyota rtv very goood) around the seal, and it stopped leaking. This is temporary i will replace the entire assembly soon.

Bclarkk

Definitely in to buy a replacemt oring but in the meantime it seems I'll have to buy a whole new assembly. Definitely sucks because that money can be used elsewhere but what can ya do

c_me_go

any updates?

Billman250

No, once I have something to share I will post.