[Vwdiesel] turbo 1.6 or non turbo advice and oil burner

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

  It's sounding more and more like my Jetta was doing from too fine of a 
hone job.  Nothing short of tearing it down, re-ringing and a proper hone 
job fixed it for good.  It's a turbo so I swapped turbos, changed valve 
stem seals, both seemed to help a bit but really musn't have.  I had 
a friend re-ring it as I was sick of it.  He kept the TS ring (second ring, 
top
ring??) and replaced the rest which had a lot of wear.  That lasted about 
10 to 15K, the first problem started at about 15K when I put in a new oil 
pump as well.  I finally gave in and did it myself, one more time.  Proper 
hone, wash down, and rings.  It has about 15K on that tear down now and 
uses very little oil with no smoke.  I also kept the two piece TS ring.  Sure 

cuts the blowby to nil.  :)
     Loren