[Vwdiesel] Initial Diagnosis: 1998 VW TDI Jetta

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/9/2011 11:53:09 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
eriklane at gmail.com writes:

> I always feel a little bad even putting new bearings in - like I'm
> wasting a perfectly good set that was already in there. (Of course I do it
> anyway, because it's a silly place to save a couple bucks and risk the
> engine. It's just the thought of how good of shape the old ones were in.)
> 
> 
  When I first tore into one of these diesels I found the same.  
Plastigauge 
showed that they indeed didn't need replaced.  So I didn't.  Hard to be 
sure that new bearings would indeed be <.001" and not that one would 
really want them to.  Plus they were already properly worn in.
    Loren