Yep, those jam nuts are stripped, don't drive the car till u get new ones, those valves are badly adjusted. The correct clearance is on the hood.

 

How the hell did the far drive like that? Must have had a cel x1000

 

I don't think you read the post right, the valve clearances got like this when i was driving, they were not set like this. the car ran perfect for a about 1k miles before this happened.

the valves where the locknuts look like they're not on all the way actually are not tight at all and have a LOT of play, like i mentioned in the original post the adjuster screw somehow went in probably because the valve is sitting lower than the others the screw has more room to go in and doesn't come out on top as much as the other ones. please try reading the post again.

 

yeah i made sure each cylinder was line up correctly when doing it

 

I'd double check the positions of the cam and crankshaft --- when you adjusted the valves. Just to really be sure. If ok, then all I can think of is valve seat problems.

 

The jam nuts have been stripped, so the adjustment screws can no longer be set. First thing to do is see if you can lock the adjustment screw with the lock nut, if not just get new jam nuts, they're cheap. Just toss them on and set your clearance, hopefully it didn't do too much damage. Valves set that tight will destroy themselves once in VTEC, out of VTEC there's more clearance, so you'll just slowly burn them, usually the exhaust valves burn first.

If your adjustment screw is siezed, or won't allow itself to be adjusted properly, you'll have to remove the cams, because the screw is tapered in the bottom and won't screw out that way. If you can't remove it, you'll have to replace the rocker arms in question. I'd buy them used, and get an entire 3 piece matching assembly, best not to take a chance mixing and matching random rocker arm parts.

 

If you didn't touch them, and this is what happened on their own after getting valve work done at a shop, id be on the phone with them emailing this pictures and asking what they intend to do about this. This is not a typical problem. Never mind the fubar stripped threads which may or may not have been a result of self destruction, look at the lock nuts which show complete mishandling of a wrench. Again looks like real armature work here. Again, I would get on the phone with the manager/owner of that shop, send him the pics and push for them towing your car back to their lot on their dime and inspecting the issue, with the intent to repair what ever damage was caused by a clear botching of work on their end. After nearly a decade of being an active member on this website, I have never come across this particular issue/symptom before. It was clearly caused by human intervention/tampering at some part in the stage of events.

 

If you didn't touch them, and this is what happened on their own after getting valve work done at a shop, id be on the phone with them emailing this pictures and asking what they intend to do about this. This is not a typical problem. Never mind the fubar stripped threads which may or may not have been a result of self destruction, look at the lock nuts which show complete mishandling of a wrench. Again looks like real armature work here. Again, I would get on the phone with the manager/owner of that shop, send him the pics and push for them towing your car back to their lot on their dime and inspecting the issue, with the intent to repair what ever damage was caused by a clear botching of work on their end. After nearly a decade of being an active member on this website, I have never come across this particular issue/symptom before. It was clearly caused by human intervention/tampering at some part in the stage of events.
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Don't think you're reading right again. I set the valve clearances about 1,000 miles ago. I checked all 16 of them 2-3 times after all was done and verified they were all on the looser side while still being WITHIN spec. I'm thinking maybe i torqued down the locknuts incorrectly... I'm having it towed to the shop tomorrow morning

 

"Don't think you're reading right again. I set the valve clearances about 1,000 miles ago. I checked all 16 of them 2-3 times after all was done and verified they were all on the looser side while still being WITHIN spec. I'm thinking maybe i torqued down the locknuts incorrectly... I'm having it towed to the shop tomorrow morning."

Just to be sure... after you adjusted the valves (1,000 miles ago) --- the adjustment screws looked like this?

https://i.imgur.com/WJph7Q0.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/vKtXb0E.jpg

Because, I highly doubt they tightened up, on their own --- in 1,000 miles of driving.

 

If you didn't touch them, and this is what happened on their own after getting valve work done at a shop, id be on the phone with them emailing this pictures and asking what they intend to do about this. This is not a typical problem. Never mind the fubar stripped threads which may or may not have been a result of self destruction, look at the lock nuts which show complete mishandling of a wrench. Again looks like real armature work here. Again, I would get on the phone with the manager/owner of that shop, send him the pics and push for them towing your car back to their lot on their dime and inspecting the issue, with the intent to repair what ever damage was caused by a clear botching of work on their end. After nearly a decade of being an active member on this website, I have never come across this particular issue/symptom before. It was clearly caused by human intervention/tampering at some part in the stage of events.
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Don't think you're reading right again. I set the valve clearances about 1,000 miles ago. I checked all 16 of them 2-3 times after all was done and verified they were all on the looser side while still being WITHIN spec. I'm thinking maybe i torqued down the locknuts incorrectly... I'm having it towed to the shop tomorrow morning
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I think I'm reading just fine, but maybe its between the lines I'm thinking you probably shouldn't do valve adjustments anymore based on what what's being shown in this thread. I hope no serious damage was done other then needing to replace your lock nuts and adjusters.