[Vwdiesel] Ring Break-In and Oil Consumption

David Cook vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 1 22:17:00 EST 2005


Bryant, did you maybe mean to just take your foot off
the accelerator going downhill?  (As opposed to taking
the car out of gear and actually riding down the hill
with the engine at a true idle speed?)

David

--- LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:

> 
> > Another engine builder tells me to
> > let it idle down hills and push it hard up them. 
> Says the idling downhill
> > helps to seat the rings.
> > 
> 
>   I've kind of found that heavy decelerating seems
> to help seat rings.  
> That's certainly opposite opinions!  ;-)
>      Loren
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