[Vwdiesel] turbo 1.6 or non turbo advice

[Chuck Carnohan]

Bart, I'm no expert but if it starts easily, has good power and runs
good it may not be rings.  It could be that your valve lash needs
adjusting.  A quart every 200 miles is a lot!  I'm sure that the sages
on this list will have better insight than I do.

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com]
On Behalf Of Bart Wineland
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:36 AM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] turbo 1.6 or non turbo advice


Hello,

My '89 Jetta with a "rebuilt" 1.6 na engine with 25k miles since I
bought 
and installed is smoking blue and using a quart of oil every 200 miles 
already. It starts great and has as much power as ever but is burning
oil 
like crazy?? At this point I am figuring on swapping the engine again
and 
would like to tear this one down myself  when I have time this winter. I
have a couple leads on engines. One of them is a 1.6 turbo in a '85
Jetta 
my friend has that his son rolled. We believe the engine came through ok

but he only had the car for 3 days before it was wrecked so don't have 
a  long history with it . I also have a lead on a 1.6 na. I am not at
all 
familiar with the turbo and know parts for them are harder to come by
and 
more expensive and wonder if the extra h.p. is worth it? Curious if you 
guys could buy either engine for about the same money if you would go
with 
the turbo?

thanks for any opinions,

Bart

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