[Vwdiesel] TS rings & oil

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/6/2011 12:44:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
tgott at hotmail.com writes:

> 8000 miles on a diesel may not be enough but it should on your engine. I 
> remember my fathers 93 chevy diesel truck didn't break in totally till 50K 
> miles. It only has 65K on it now but it was burning a fair amount of oil. 
> Enough to carry a few quarts on long trips. Then at 50K you could feel the 
> power was peaking and it stopped using oil.

  When the orchard bought 3 Ford pickups (6.9) they broke them in according 
to 
the book.  Easy, slow, etc, etc.  They used oil and do to this day.  As 
much as 
13 quarts between changes!  I got a strong recommendation for a dealer in 
Morton 
WA since the local dealer wasn't going to do anything for them.  After 
telling him 
how much it was using, the guy from the dealer said "You broke them in by 
the 
book didn't you?"  They told people to take it home and put an 11' camper 
on it, 
5 horse trailer or whatever they had that was heavy.  If they didn't have a 
good 
load then they recommended getting a bed full of dirt, rock, etc and taking 
a 
300 to 500 mile trip first thing, over hills if possible.  He said EVERY 
one broken 
in hard was fine, nearly all (maybe all) that were broken in easy, used 
oil.  Driving 
hard later didn't seem to help. 
     Loren